André de Lorde
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André de Latour, comte de Lorde (1869–1942) was a French playwright, the main author of the Grand Guignol plays from 1901 to 1926. His evening career was as a dramatist of terror; during daytimes he worked as a librarian in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. He wrote 150 plays, all of them devoted mainly to the exploitation of terror and insanity, and a few novels. For plays the subject matter of which concerned mental illness he sometimes collaborated with psychologist Alfred Binet, the developer of IQ testing.
During the 1920s de Lorde was elected "Prince of Fear" (Prince de la Terreur) by his peers.
Filmography[]
- The Lonely Villa, directed by D. W. Griffith (1909, short film, based on the play Au Telephone)
- The System of Doctor Goudron, directed by Maurice Tourneur (1913, short film, based on the play Le Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume)
- Jacques Grétillat (1920, based on the play La Double Existence du docteur Morart) , directed by
- Le Château de la mort lente, directed by Émile-Bernard Donatien (1925, based on the play Le Château de la mort lente)
- Marc Allégret (1931, short film, based on the play Attaque nocturne) , directed by
- Maurice Tourneur (1934, short film, based on the play L'Homme mystérieux) , directed by
- , directed by (1933, based on the play Bagnes d'enfants)
Screenwriter[]
- Figures de cire, directed by Maurice Tourneur (1914, short film)
- , directed by (1920)
- Michel Bernheim (1936) , directed by
External links[]
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- At the Telephone by André de Lorde
Categories:
- People from Toulouse
- 1869 births
- 1942 deaths
- 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
- French fantasy writers
- French librarians
- Dramatist and playwright stubs