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Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès
  • Name: Georges Méliès
  • Birthday: 1861-12-09
  • Also known as: Жорж Мельес,조르주 멜리에스,Marie Georges Jean Méliès,ジョルジュ・メリエス,マリー・ジョルジュ・ジャン・メリエス
  • Place of birth: Paris, France
  • Popularity: 0.286
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

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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