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Birthday
December 9, 1861
Day of Death
1938-01-21
(76 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known 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
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 effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for decades to come. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician". Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904).
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The Christmas Dream
as Beggar
Joan of Arc
as Père de Jeanne
The Artist and the Dummy
as Artiste
The One-Man Band
as All the members of the orchestra
Going to Bed Under Difficulties
as The Man
The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match
as Wrestler
A Fantastical Meal
as The Man
The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head
as Conjurer
The Magic Book
as The Magician
Up-to-Date Spiritualism
as Le comique excentrique
The Wizard, the Prince and the Good Fairy
as Prince
1899
The Dreyfus Affair
as Fernand Labori
Cinderella
as The Gnome of the Clock / The Swiss at the Entrance to the Church
An Up-to-Date Conjurer
as Magician
The Devil in a Convent
as The Devil
Cleopatra's Tomb
as un profanateur de la tombe de Cléopâtre
The Mysterious Knight
as Le chevalier mystère
A Midnight Episode
as The Sleeping Man (uncredited)
The Mysterious Portrait
as L'illusioniste
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