Biography
Alfred Machin (20 April 1877 – 16 June 1929) was a French actor and film director. He is remembered to have been one of the few French film directors whose films expressed progressive tendencies before World War I. He was also a pioneer of aerial filming. After 1920 Alfred Machin devoted himself to films of animals.Machin started his career as a press photographer for the magazine L'illustration. He was then recruited by the film production company Pathé which sent him in 1907 to Africa where he realised in particular a large number of short films on wild animals.Machin was sent in 1909 by Pathé to The Netherlands to film scenes of Dutch life. In 1912, he was sent to Belgium where he took part in the creation of Pathé foreign subsidiary Belge Cinéma Film and directed a number of films including Belgium's first feature film Le Diamant noir (:fr) and the anti-war film Maudite soit la guerre.
During World War I, Machin took part in the foundation of the Photographic Service of the French Army while continuing working for Pathé which produced films for this service. He shot some scenes of the French trenches which were used by D.W. Griffith in Hearts of the World He only directed one horror film, The Manor House of Fear in 1927, which is thought to have been theatrically shown in the United States by Universal Pictures.After the war, Machin created a Film studio in Nice, to which a small zoo was attached where he kept wild animals used in his productions. He died in 1929 as a result of an injury inflicted by a panther during the shooting of a film.
Machin directed 156 films, of which 32 are preserved.
Filmography
all 44
Movies 44
Director 42
Writer 1
Heart of Tramp (1936)
The Manor House of Fear (1927)
Heart of a Vagabond (1925)
The Heirs of Uncle James (1924)
L'énigme du Mont Agel (1924)
Animals As Stupid As Men (1922)
Pervenche (1921)
Hearts of the World (1918)
Zouaves d'Afrique dans les Flandres belges (1915)
Goumiers algériens en Belgique (1915)
I'm Going to Shave (1914)
Damn the War (1914)
Loyalty (1914)
Monsieur Beulemeester, Civic Guard (1913)
Au ravissement des dames (1913)
De medeminaars (1913)
Drop of Blood (1913)
The Black Diamond (1913)
The Fellow Lovers (1913)
Saïda Makes Off with the Manneken Pis (1913)
La vie cosmopolite au Caire (1913)
Le secret de l'acier (1912)
Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg (1912)
Little Moritz, soldat d'Afrique (1912)
The Mills in Joy and Sorrow (1912)
La chasse aux singes (1912)
The Story of Minna Claessens (1912)
Story about a Young Boy (1912)
Little Moritz Hunting Great Beasts (1912)
Mrs. Pussy Loves Animals (1911)
Cursed Money (1911)
The Dedication of a Young Boy (1911)
Babylas Just Inherited a Panther (1911)
Chasse à l'aigrette en Afrique (1911)
Fouinard is Happy (1911)
L'aéroplane de Fouinard (1910)
La Chasse à la girafe en Ouganda (1910)
The Chillouks, a Central African Tribe (1910)
Une grande chasse à l'hippopotame sur le Haut Nil (1910)
The Mill (1909)
Comment se fait le fromage de Hollande (1909)
D'où viennent les faux cheveux (1909)
Hunting the Panther (1909)
Dutch Hairstyles and Types (1909)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1877-04-20
Deathday1929-06-16 (52 years old)
Birth PlaceBlendecques, France
SpouseGermaine Lecuyer
ChildrenClaude Machin
CitizenshipsFrance
AwardsCroix de guerre 1914–1918
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