People
Georges Méliès
Biography:
Georges Méliès (December 9, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come. A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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A Collection of Silent Films, Given Sound as The Gnome of the Clock, a halberdier | 2025-12-28 |
Alcoléa & cie Documentary | 2024-02-21 |
Méliès: Tales of Terror as The Melomaniac | 2021-10-08 |
The Méliès Mystery as Self (archive footage) | 2021-01-02 |
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese as Magician (archive footage from "The Vanishing Lady") | 2019-06-11 |
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo as Self (archive footage) | 2014-11-30 |
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès as Self (archive footage) | 2012-02-28 |
The Extraordinary Voyage as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | 2011-12-08 |
Méliès' Magic Show as Divers | 1997-07-01 |
Cinematógrafo 1900 as Self (archive footage) | 1979-11-25 |
Violons d'Ingres as Himself (archive footage) | 1939-01-01 |
Gala Méliès as Himself | 1929-12-16 |
The Knight of the Snow as Devil | 1912-12-20 |
The Conquest of the Pole as Le professeur Mabouloff | 1912-05-03 |
The Diabolical Church Window | 1911-10-01 |
Whimsical Illusions as The Magician | 1909-12-01 |
Fortune Favors the Brave as Gnome | 1909-12-01 |
The Diabolic Tenant as Le locataire diabolique | 1909-01-30 |
The Doctor's Secret | 1909-01-10 |
Tribulations; or, The Misfortunes of a Cobbler as The Roman | 1908-07-02 |
Long Distance Wireless Photography | 1908-03-31 |
The Indian Sorcerer as The Fakir | 1908-01-19 |
Satan in Prison as Satan | 1907-11-01 |
Good Glue Sticks | 1907-09-20 |
Tunneling the English Channel | 1907-06-30 |
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon as Professor of Astronomy | 1907-06-07 |
Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil as Ali Barbouyou | 1907-05-23 |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 1907-02-15 |
The Witch as The Fairy Carabosse | 1906-12-20 |
The Mysterious Retort | 1906-09-28 |
The Merry Frolics of Satan as Satan | 1906-09-07 |
A Desperate Crime | 1906-06-01 |
A Roadside Inn as Drunk Traveler | 1906-05-23 |
The Hilarious Posters as The Bill Poster | 1906-04-20 |
The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship | 1905-12-27 |
Rip's Dream as Rip Van Winkle | 1905-11-14 |
Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus as Ulysses (uncredited) | 1905-09-01 |
The Palace of the Arabian Nights as The Sorcerer Khalafar (uncredited) | 1905-06-10 |
A Mesmerian Experiment | 1905-03-03 |
The Lilliputian Minuet | 1905-02-18 |
The Black Imp | 1905-01-27 |
The Living Playing Cards as The Magician | 1905-01-06 |
The Christmas Angel as The Rag-and-Bone Man / Beggar on Crutches / Coal Seller | 1904-12-23 |
The Firefall as Satan | 1904-12-01 |
The Wandering Jew | 1904-11-25 |
The Impossible Voyage as Mabouloff | 1904-11-10 |
The Mermaid | 1904-05-26 |
The Devilish Plank | 1904-05-13 |
The Cook in Trouble | 1904-05-06 |
The Wonderful Living Fan | 1904-04-29 |
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer | 1904-04-16 |
The Clockmaker's Dream | 1904-02-11 |
The Untamable Whiskers as Man with whiskers | 1904-02-05 |
The Fugitive Apparitions | 1904-02-03 |
Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter | 1904-01-15 |
A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself as The Magician / The Double | 1904-01-13 |
Tit for Tat | 1904-01-05 |
A Moonlight Serenade | 1903-12-26 |
The Terrible Turkish Executioner as The Executioner | 1903-12-11 |
Faust in the Underworld as Mephistopholes | 1903-12-05 |
The Ballet Master's Dream | 1903-11-10 |
The Magic Lantern | 1903-10-30 |
Alcofribas, The Master Magician | 1903-10-03 |
Extraordinary Illusions | 1903-09-22 |
Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid | 1903-09-14 |
Jupiter's Thunderballs | 1903-08-20 |
Apparitions | 1903-08-09 |
The Infernal Cauldron as Devil | 1903-08-01 |
The Kingdom of the Fairies as Prince Bel-Azor | 1903-07-25 |
The Monster | 1903-05-26 |
The Melomaniac | 1903-05-18 |
The Oracle of Delphi | 1903-05-03 |
The Mystical Flame | 1903-04-19 |
The Mysterious Box | 1903-02-27 |
The Infernal Cakewalk as Devil | 1903-02-21 |
Misfortune Never Comes Alone as Lamplighter | 1903-02-02 |
Beelzebub's Daughters | 1903-01-26 |
The Marvellous Wreath as Musketeer | 1903-01-18 |
The Enchanted Basket | 1903-01-03 |
Robinson Crusoe as Robinson Crusoé | 1902-12-20 |
Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants as Gulliver | 1902-11-22 |
Sure Cure for Indigestion as Doctor | 1902-10-25 |
An Impossible Balancing Feat | 1902-09-13 |
The Human Fly as The Hindoo Magician | 1902-08-09 |
The Treasures of Satan | 1902-07-26 |
A Trip to the Moon as Professor Barbenfouillis / The Moon | 1902-06-15 |
The Prolific Magical Egg | 1902-03-15 |
The Dwarf and the Giant | 1901-12-14 |
The Man with the Rubber Head as The Chemist / The India Rubber Head | 1901-12-01 |
The Devil and the Statue | 1901-12-01 |
Hat of Many Surprises | 1901-09-14 |
Bluebeard as Barbe-bleue | 1901-07-25 |
The Prince of Magicians as Excelsior | 1901-06-22 |
The Temple of the Sun | 1901-05-18 |
A Maiden's Paradise as The Wizard | 1901-04-20 |
The Magician's Cavern | 1901-04-13 |
The Triple Headed Lady | 1901-01-25 |
The Brahmin and the Butterfly as The brahmin | 1901-01-18 |
The Christmas Dream as Beggar | 1900-08-08 |
Joan of Arc as Père de Jeanne | 1900-08-06 |
The Artist and the Dummy as Artiste | 1900-05-21 |
The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match as Wrestler | 1900-01-01 |
A Fantastical Meal as The Man | 1900-01-01 |
The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head as Conjurer | 1900-01-01 |
The Magic Book as The Magician | 1900-01-01 |
Going to Bed Under Difficulties as The Man | 1900-01-01 |
The One-Man Band as All the members of the orchestra | 1900-01-01 |
Up-to-Date Spiritualism as Le comique excentrique | 1900-01-01 |
The Wizard, the Prince and the Good Fairy as Prince | 1900-01-01 |
The Dreyfus Affair as Fernand Labori | 1899-11-04 |
Cinderella as The Gnome of the Clock / The Swiss at the Entrance to the Church | 1899-10-01 |
Summoning the Spirits | 1899-05-20 |
The Human Pyramid | 1899-05-20 |
The Pillar of Fire | 1899-01-01 |
A Midnight Episode as The Sleeping Man (uncredited) | 1899-01-01 |
The Mysterious Portrait as L'illusioniste | 1899-01-01 |
Cleopatra's Tomb as un profanateur de la tombe de Cléopâtre | 1899-01-01 |
The Mysterious Knight as Le chevalier mystère | 1899-01-01 |
An Up-to-Date Conjurer as Magician | 1899-01-01 |
The Devil in a Convent as The Devil | 1899-01-01 |
The Four Troublesome Heads as Conjurer | 1898-11-30 |
The Famous Box Trick as The Magician | 1898-01-01 |
The Magician as Le Sculpteur | 1898-01-01 |
Pygmalion and Galatea as Pygmalion | 1898-01-01 |
The Temptation of St. Anthony | 1898-01-01 |
The Astronomer's Dream as Astronomer | 1898-01-01 |
The Haunted Castle | 1897-01-01 |
Between Calais and Dover as The Man in the Checked Suit | 1897-01-01 |
Naval Combat in Greece as The Captain | 1897-01-01 |
The Bewitched Inn as The Traveler | 1897-01-01 |
Faust and Marguerite as Méphistophélès | 1897-01-01 |
A Nightmare as Man | 1896-12-25 |
The Haunted Castle as Mephistopheles | 1896-12-24 |
Conjuring as Himself | 1896-06-15 |
A Terrible Night as L'homme qui essaie de dormir | 1896-01-01 |
Playing Cards as Un joueur de cartes | 1896-01-01 |
The Vanishing Lady as Magician | 1896-01-01 |