Georges Méliès
Birthday
1861/12/09
Day of death
1938/01/21 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also know 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
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 e...Read more
Acting
(1902) A Trip to the Moon
as Professor Barbenfouillis / The Moon
(1904) The Impossible Voyage
as Mabouloff
(1904) The Cook in Trouble
as ---
(1979) Cinematógrafo 1900
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) El hombre que quiso ser Segundo
as Self (archive footage)
(1904) The Untamable Whiskers
as Man with whiskers
(1905) The Living Playing Cards
as The Magician
(1903) The Infernal Cauldron
as Devil
(1900) The One-Man Band
as All the members of the orchestra
(1898) The Four Troublesome Heads
as Conjurer
(1899) A Midnight Episode
as The Sleeping Man (uncredited)
(1900) Joan of Arc
as Père de Jeanne
(1897) Faust and Marguerite
as Méphistophélès
(1896) A Terrible Night
as L'homme qui essaie de dormir
(1896) The Vanishing Lady
as Magician
(1897) The Haunted Castle
as ---
(1898) The Astronomer's Dream
as Astronomer
(1899) Cinderella
as The Gnome of the Clock / The Swiss at the Entrance to the Church
(1908) The Indian Sorcerer
as The Fakir
(1912) The Conquest of the Pole
as Le professeur Mabouloff
(1904) The Wandering Jew
as ---
(1896) The Haunted Castle
as Mephistopheles
(2012) The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
as Self (archive footage)
(1906) A Desperate Crime
as ---
(1907) Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil
as Ali Barbouyou
(1904) The Wonderful Living Fan
as ---
(1905) The Black Imp
as ---
(1903) The Monster
as ---
(1905) The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship
as ---
(1898) The Temptation of St. Anthony
as ---
(1909) The Diabolic Tenant
as Le locataire diabolique
(1901) The Man with the Rubber Head
as The Chemist / The India Rubber Head
(1904) The Mermaid
as ---
(1899) The Devil in a Convent
as The Devil
(1908) Long Distance Wireless Photography
as ---
(1899) An Up-to-Date Conjurer
as Magician
(1906) The Merry Frolics of Satan
as Satan
(1900) The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match
as Wrestler
(1906) The Hilarious Posters
as The Bill Poster
(1903) The Infernal Cakewalk
as Devil
(1899) The Dreyfus Affair
as Fernand Labori
(1904) The Clockmaker's Dream
as ---
(1903) The Melomaniac
as ---
(1899) Summoning the Spirits
as ---
(1903) Extraordinary Illusions
as ---
(1904) Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
as ---
(1899) The Human Pyramid
as ---
(1901) Hat of Many Surprises
as ---
(1900) Going to Bed Under Difficulties
as The Man
(1900) Up-to-Date Spiritualism
as Le comique excentrique
(1903) Jupiter's Thunderballs
as ---
(1903) The Terrible Turkish Executioner
as The Executioner
(1897) The Bewitched Inn
as The Traveler
(1909) Whimsical Illusions
as The Magician
(1903) Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid
as ---
(1903) The Ballet Master's Dream
as ---
(1903) Apparitions
as ---
(1902) The Prolific Magical Egg
as ---
(1911) The Diabolical Church Window
as ---
(1907) Satan in Prison
as Satan
(2021) Méliès: Tales of Terror
as The Melomaniac
(1901) The Dwarf and the Giant
as ---
(1903) The Oracle of Delphi
as ---
(1909) The Doctor's Secret
as ---
(1903) A Moonlight Serenade
as ---
(1901) The Magician's Cavern
as ---
(1905) A Mesmerian Experiment
as ---
(1906) The Mysterious Retort
as ---
(1896) Playing Cards
as Un joueur de cartes
(1902) An Impossible Balancing Feat
as ---
(1904) Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter
as ---
(1901) Bluebeard
as Barbe-bleue
(1906) The Witch
as The Fairy Carabosse
(1903) Faust in the Underworld
as Mephistopholes
(1902) The Treasures of Satan
as ---
(1901) The Devil and the Statue
as ---
(1899) The Mysterious Knight
as Le chevalier mystère
(1900) The Artist and the Dummy
as Artiste
(1900) The Christmas Dream
as Beggar
(1907) Good Glue Sticks
as ---
(1903) The Mystical Flame
as ---
(1904) The Fugitive Apparitions
as ---
(1929) Gala Méliès
as Himself
(1903) The Kingdom of the Fairies
as Prince Bel-Azor
(1907) The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
as Professor of Astronomy
(1901) The Brahmin and the Butterfly
as The brahmin
(1901) A Maiden's Paradise
as The Wizard
(1901) The Temple of the Sun
as ---
(1906) A Roadside Inn
as Drunk Traveler
(1912) The Knight of the Snow
as Devil
(1903) The Magic Lantern
as ---
(1907) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as ---
(1898) Pygmalion and Galatea
as Pygmalion
(1896) A Nightmare
as Man
(1903) Alcofribas, The Master Magician
as ---
(1907) Tunneling the English Channel
as ---
(1897) Naval Combat in Greece
as The Captain
(1939) Violons d'Ingres
as Himself (archive footage)
(1997) Méliès' Magic Show
as Divers
(2011) The Extraordinary Voyage
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
(1899) The Mysterious Portrait
as L'illusioniste
(1904) Tit for Tat
as ---
(1904) The Devilish Plank
as ---
(1896) Conjuring
as Himself
(1904) The Christmas Angel
as The Rag-and-Bone Man / Beggar on Crutches / Coal Seller
(1902) Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
as Gulliver
(1901) The Prince of Magicians
as Excelsior
(1902) The Human Fly
as The Hindoo Magician
(1904) A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself
as The Magician / The Double
(1899) Cleopatra's Tomb
as un profanateur de la tombe de Cléopâtre
(1905) Rip's Dream
as Rip Van Winkle
(1902) Robinson Crusoe
as Robinson Crusoé
(1905) The Palace of the Arabian Nights
as The Sorcerer Khalafar (uncredited)
(1903) The Mysterious Box
as ---
(1900) The Wizard, the Prince and the Good Fairy
as Prince
(1908) Tribulations; or, The Misfortunes of a Cobbler
as The Roman
(1901) The Triple Headed Lady
as ---
(1899) The Pillar of Fire
as ---
(2021) The Méliès Mystery
as Self (archive footage)
(1903) Misfortune Never Comes Alone
as Lamplighter
(1903) The Marvellous Wreath
as Musketeer
(1900) A Fantastical Meal
as The Man
(1900) The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head
as Conjurer
(1900) The Magic Book
as The Magician
(1898) The Famous Box Trick
as The Magician
(1898) The Magician
as Le Sculpteur
(1897) Between Calais and Dover
as The Man in the Checked Suit
(1904) The Firefall
as Satan
(1909) Fortune Favors the Brave
as Gnome
(2025) A Collection of Silent Films, Given Sound
as The Gnome of the Clock, a halberdier
(2019) Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
as Magician (archive footage from "The Vanishing Lady")
(1902) Sure Cure for Indigestion
as Doctor
(2024) Alcoléa & cie Documentary
as ---
(1905) The Lilliputian Minuet
as ---
(1903) The Enchanted Basket
as ---
(1903) Beelzebub's Daughters
as ---
(1905) Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus
as Ulysses (uncredited)
(1978) Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)