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Ferdinand Zecca (1864–1947)

Director | Producer | Actor

Was a cafe concert entertainer before Charles Pathe noticed him during the Universal Exhibition, where Zecca had been assigned to Pathe's stand. After a few daysPathe asked Zecca if he would like to work in cinematography. Zecca immediately accepted the offer and rapidly became Pathe's right hand man and head of production. See full bio »

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in Paris, France

Died:

(age 82) in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
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1919 Le calvaire d'une reine (co-director)
 
1919 Les larmes du pardon (co-director)
 
1915 Le Noël d'un vagabond (short) (co-director)
 
1915 Le vieux cabotin (co-director)
 
1914 The Star of Genius (short) (co-director)
 
1914 King of the Air (short) (co-director)
 
1914 Struggle for Life (co-director)
 
1914 The Constancy of Jeanne (short) (co-director)
 
1914 La danse héroïque (co-director)
 
1913 The Black Countess (short) (co-director)
 
1913 Conquered Hate
 
1913 When Paris Loves (short) (co-director)
 
1913 La leçon du gouffre (co-director)
 
1912 La fièvre de l'or (co-director)
 
1912 L'amour plus fort que la haine (short)
 
1912 Le mariage de Dranem (short)
 
1912 Scènes de la vie cruelle (short) (co-director)
 
1910 Slippery Jim (short)
 
1910 Cleopatra (short) (co-director)
 
1910 A Tragic Adventure (co-director)
 
1910 1812 (short) (co-director)
 
1910 Le caprice du vainqueur (short) (co-director)
 
1909 The Invisible Thief (short)
 
1908 The Merry Widow Waltz (short)
 
1908 The Policeman's Vision
 
1908 Latest Style Airship (short)
 
1908 The Dreyfus Affair (short) (co-director)
 
1908 Samson and Delilah (short) (co-director)
 
1908 The Man with Calf's Head (short)
 
1908 A Diabolical Itching (short)
 
1908 Les souliers de Dranem (short)
 
1907 Wonderful Mirrors (short)
 
1907 The Pearl Fisher (short)
 
1907 The Red Spectre (short) (co-director)
 
1907 Distress (short)
 
1907 From Jealousy to Madness (short)
 
1907 Life and Passion of Christ (short)
 
1907 The Policemen's Little Run (short)
 
1907 Les effets d'une valse lente (short)
 
1907 The Chameleon Man (short)
 
1907 Metempsychosis (short) (co-director)
 
1907 Petite Lisie héroïque (short)
 
1906 Fun After the Wedding (short)
 
1906 Conquering the Skies (short)
 
1906 Motorcar and Cripple (short)
 
1906 Bird's Eye View of Paris (short)
 
1906 Whence Does He Come? (short)
 
1906 Remorse (short)
 
1906 Dranem's Dream (short)
 
1906 Les exécutions capitales (short)
 
1906 Venetian Tragedy (short)
 
1905 Alcohol and Its Victims (short)
 
1905 The Hooligans of Paris (short)
 
1905 Modern Brigandage (short)
 
1905 Avenged (short)
 
1905 Ten Wives for One Husband (short) (co-director)
 
1905 Down in the Coal Mines (short) (co-director)
 
1905 The Moon Lover (short) (co-director)
 
1905 A Father's Honor (short)
 
1905 The Incendiary (short) (co-director)
 
1905 Scenes of Convict Life (short)
 
1905 La caverne infernale (short)
 
1905 La course aux tonneaux
 
1904 Impossible to Get a Plunge (short)
 
1904 Scenes from My Balcony (documentary short)
 
1904 Mistake in the Door (short)
 
1904 The Shower Bath (short)
 
1904 The Clever Baker (short)
 
1904 Kissing in a Tunnel (short)
 
1904 The Devil's Seven Castles (short)
 
1904 The Strike (short)
 
1904 Annie's Love Story (short)
 
1904 A Disagreeable Remedy (short)
 
1904 Transformations spontanées (short)
 
1904 Le portrait (short)
 
1904 Les petits coupeurs de bois vert (short)
 
1903 Puss in Boots (short) (co-director)
 
1903 Adventures of the Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote (short) (co-director)
 
1903 Avènement de Pie X (documentary short)
 
1903 Sleeping Beauty (short) (co-director)
 
1903 The Passion Play (short) (co-director)
 
1903 The Gambler's Crime (short)
 
1903 Ingenious Soubrette (short)
 
1903 Apothéose (short)
 
1903 Jésus au jardin des oliviers (short)
 
1903 Jésus chassant les vendeurs du temple (short)
 
1903 Jésus devant Pilate (short)
 
1903 Jésus est présenté au peuple (short)
 
1903 Jésus et la samaritaine (short)
 
1903 Jésus parmi les docteurs (short)
 
1903 Jésus succombe sous sa croix (short)
 
1903 La cène (short)
 
1903 L'adoration des mages (short)
 
1903 La flagellation (short)
 
1903 La fuite en Égypte (short)
 
1903 La mise au tombeau (short)
 
1903 Love at Each Floor (short)
 
1903 La multiplications des pains (short)
 
1903 L'ange et les saintes femmes (short)
 
1903 L'annonciation (short)
 
1903 La résurrection (short)
 
1903 La sainte famille (short)
 
1903 Le baiser de Judas: l'arrestation (short)
 
1903 Le couronnement d'épines (short)
 
1903 Le crucifiement (short)
 
1903 Le descente de croix (short)
 
1903 Le miracle de sainte Véronique (short)
 
1903 The Death of Christ (short)
 
1903 L'entrée au Jérusalem (short)
 
1903 Les noces de Cana (short)
 
1903 L'étoile mystérieuse (short)
 
1903 Ma tante (short)
 
1903 Peinture animée (short)
 
1902 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (short)
 
1902 The Magical Hen (short)
 
1902 What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor (short)
 
1902 A Horrible Nightmare (short)
 
1902 Dance of the Sylphs (short)
 
1902 That Which I See in My Telescope (short)
 
1902 Chez le photographe (short)
 
1902 The Resourceful Waiter (short)
 
1902 La belle au Bois-Dormant (short)
 
1902 Martinique Disaster (documentary short)
 
1902 The Fairy of the Black Rocks (short)
 
1902 The Dreyfus Affair (short)
 
1902 The Flying Machine (short)
 
1902 La maison à l'envers (short)
 
1902 L'assassinat de Mac Kinley (short)
 
1902 Drink
 
1902 La vie dangereuse (short)
 
1902 Disagreeable Railroad Passengers (short)
 
1902 Le conférencier distrait (short)
 
1902 A Bad Rich Man (short)
 
1902 Cadet's First Smoke (short)
 
1902 Le supplice de Tantale (short)
 
1902 Alcohol and Its Victims (short)
 
1902 In a Hurry to Catch the Train (short)
 
1902 Samson and Delilah (short)
 
1902 A Story of Christmas (short)
 
1902 Une séance de cinématographe (short)
 
1901 Une discussion politique (short)
 
1901 History of a Crime (short)
 
1901 Assassinat du Président McKinley (short)
 
1901 Bullet vs. Whiskey (short)
 
1901 Chez le dentiste (short)
 
1901 Fabien Becomes an Architect (short)
 
1901 L'agent plongeur (short)
 
1901 Grandma's Glass (short)
 
1901 La mégère récalcitrante (short)
 
1901 La soupière merveilleuse (short)
 
1901 The Prodigal Son (short)
 
1901 Dranem Salutes the Audience (short)
 
1901 The Illusionist (short)
 
1901 What Is Seen Through a Keyhole (short)
 
1901 Plongeur fantastique (short)
 
1901 Quo Vadis? (short)
 
1901 The Infernal Meal (short)
 
1901 Rêve et réalité (short)
 
1901 Drama at the Bottom of the Sea (short)
 
1901 Amazing Duel (short)
 
1901 Un duel comique (short)
 
1901 Une demande en mariage mal engagée (short)
 
1901 Going to Bed Under Difficulties (short)
 
1899 Le muet mélomane (short)
 
1899 Les méfaits d'une tête de veau (short)
 
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1915 Gribouillette fiancée d'une heure (short) (producer)
 
1915 Je te présente ma cousine (short) (producer)
 
1915 L'âne de Gribouillette (short) (producer)
 
1914 Gribouillette (short) (producer)
 
1914 Gribouillette dactylographe (short) (producer)
 
1914 Gribouillette et l'oncle Dufroussard (short) (producer)
 
1914 La fugue de Gribouillette (short) (producer)
 
1914 La pipe de Boireau (short) (producer)
 
1914 La ruse de Gribouillette (short) (producer)
 
1914 Le dévouement fraternel (short) (producer)
 
1914 Le Noël de Gribouillette (short) (producer)
 
1914 Le rocking-chair de Boireau (short) (producer)
 
1914 Les caprices de Gribouillette (short) (producer)
 
1914 Les émotions de Gribouillette (short) (producer)
 
1914 Une extraordinaire aventure de Boireau (short) (producer)
 
1913 Leo, the Indian (short) (producer)
 
1913 Leo's Great Cure (short) (producer)
 
1913 Just for Luck (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau spadassin (short) (producer)
 
1913 Leo Makes Good (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau fait des conquêtes (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau empoisonneur (short) (producer)
 
1913 Nervous Leo (short) (producer)
 
1913 Leo's Love Letter (short) (producer)
 
1913 Leo's Vacation (short) (producer)
 
1913 Les incohérences de Boireau (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau à la pêche (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau bonhomme de pain d'épice (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau champion de cross-country (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau cherche sa femme (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau dame de compagnie (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau enlève la Bohémienne (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau en voyage (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau est fort au billard (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau et le casque colonial (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau et les deux policemen (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau pendu par amour (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau pris pour Gribouille (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau professeur du maintien (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau sauveteur (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau s'expatrie (short) (producer)
 
1913 Boireau victime de sa probité (short) (producer)
 
1912 Boireau, roi de la boxe (short) (producer)
 
1912 Boireau huissier (short) (producer)
 
1912 La fête de Boireau (short) (producer)
 
1912 Boireau à l'école (short) (producer)
 
1912 Gribouille redevient Boireau (short) (producer)
 
1912 Boireau et Gribouillette s'amusent (short) (producer)
 
1912 Boireau et la demi-mondaine (short) (producer)
 
1912 Boireau et la fille du voisin (short) (producer)
 
1912 Boireau et la gigolette (short) (producer)
 
1912 Boireau fille de ferme (short) (producer)
 
1912 Boireau se venge (short) (producer)
 
1912 La vengeance de Boireau (short) (producer)
 
1912 Le frère d'armes (short) (producer)
 
1908 Don Juan (short) (producer)
 
1908 The Vestal (short) (producer)
 
1908 Le roman d'un gueux (short) (producer)
 
1907 The Struggle for Life (short) (producer)
 
1907 Max Learns to Skate (short) (producer)
 
1907 Cinderella (short) (producer)
 
1906 Poor Mother (short) (producer)
 
1906 Servant's Strike (short) (producer)
 
1906 Conquering the Skies (short) (producer)
 
1904 Scenes from My Balcony (documentary short) (producer)
 
1903 The Gambler's Crime (short) (producer)
 
Show ShowActor (17 titles)
1912 Rigadin aux Balkans (short)
 
1906 Conquering the Skies (short)
 
1906 Motorcar and Cripple (short)
 
1905 Stunning Creations (short)
 
1905 The Moon Lover (short)
Le pochard
 
1904 Kissing in a Tunnel (short)
 
1904/I Faust (short)
 
1903 How Monsieur Takes His Bath (short)
 
1903 Illusionniste renversant (short)
Magician
 
1903 Les apaches pas veinards (short)
 
1903 Les aventures d'un voyageur trop pressé (short)
Traveler
 
1902 The Magical Hen (short)
 
1902 Chez le photographe (short)
 
1902 The Resourceful Waiter (short)
 
1902 Une séance de cinématographe (short)
 
1901 History of a Crime (short)
 
1899 Le muet mélomane (short)
 
Show ShowWriter (8 titles)
1915 Le malheur qui passe (short)
 
1914 Struggle for Life (screenplay)
 
1910 A Tragic Adventure
 
1906 Miniature Theatre (short)
 
1905 The Moon Lover (short)
 
1903 The Gambler's Crime (short)
 
1902 Alcohol and Its Victims (short)
 
1901 History of a Crime (short)
 
Show ShowMake-Up Department (2 titles)
1909 A Trip to Jupiter (short) (special makeup effects artist)
 
1908 Cuisine magnétique (special makeup effects artist)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (2 titles)
1908 Excursion to the Moon (short) (supervisor)
 
1906 Magic Roses (short) (supervisor - uncredited)
 
Show ShowCinematographer (1 title)
1901 History of a Crime (short)
 
Show ShowSet Decorator (1 title)
1901 History of a Crime (short)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
1997 The Magic of Méliès (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1995 Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
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