Philippe Hériat

Biography

Born Raymond Gérard Payelle, he studied with film director René Clair and in 1920 made his debut in silent film. Over the next fifteen years, he appeared in secondary roles in another twenty-five films including the 1927 Abel Gance masterpiece, Napoleon. In 1949 Hériat collaborated with film director Jean Delannoy to write the screenplay for the film Le Secret de Mayerling. Philippe Hériat won the 1931 Prix Renaudot for his book L'Innocent. In 1939 he won the Prix Goncourt for Les Enfants gâtés, and the 1947 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Famille Boussardel. In 1949 he was made a member of the Académie Goncourt, a position he held until his death in 1971. Hériat is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris

Known For

Napoleon

El Dorado

Lucrezia Borgia

The Inhuman Woman

Miracle of the Wolves

Divine

The Late Mathias Pascal

Rothchild

All Movies (26)

• Bonaparte et la révolution1972 · as Salicetti (archive footage)
• Lucrezia Borgia1935 · as Filippo, sculptor-lover
• Divine1935 · as Lutuf-Allah
• Napoléon Bonaparte1935 · as Salicetti
• Rothchild1934 · as Diégo
• Weaker Sex1933
• Détresse1930 · as Jean Mérit
• Napoleon at St. Helena1929 · as General Bertrand
• Saint Joan the Maid1929 · as Gilles de Rays
• Change of Heart1928 · as Ralph
• Sea Fever1927
• Napoleon1927 · as Antoine Christophe Saliceti
• La jalousie du barbouillé1927
• La chaussée des géants1926
• Nothing But Time1926
• The Late Mathias Pascal1925 · as L'aide assesseur
• The Inhuman Woman1924 · as Djorah de Nopur
• Miracle of the Wolves1924
• The Gallery of Monsters1924 · as La géante
• The Flood1924 · as Alban Perrin
• Le marchand de plaisirs1923
• Don Juan et Faust1922 · as Wagner
• El Dorado1921 · as Joao, le bouffon
• Prometheus, Banker1921
• The Man of the Sea1920 · as Le protecteur
• Le Carnaval des vérités1920