Ferdinand Zecca (19 February 1864 – 23 March 1947) was a pioneer French film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He worked primarily for the Pathé company, first in artistic endeavors then in administration of the internationally based company.
Full Filmography
Directing
Les méfaits d'une tête de veau
(1899)
Director
Conquering the Skies
(1901)
Director
What Is Seen Through a Keyhole
(1901)
Director
Le Mauvais Riche
(1901)
Director
The Prodigal Son
(1901)
Director
Dream and Reality
(1901)
Director
Monsieur et Madame sont pressés
(1901)
Director
Scenes From My Balcony
(1901)
Director
An Idyll Under a Tunnel
(1901)
Director
The Seven Castles of the Devil
(1901)
Director
Drama at the Bottom of the Sea
(1901)
Director
History of a Crime
(1901)
Director
Quo Vadis
(1901)
Director
La Chasse Est Ouverte
(1901)
Director
A Political Discussion
(1901)
Director
Swimming Not Possible
(1901)
Director
The Illusionist
(1901)
Director
Dance of the Sylphs
(1902)
Director
The Martinique Disaster
(1902)
Director
The Marvelous Hen
(1902)
Director
A Horrible Nightmare
(1902)
Director
The Fairy of the Black Rocks
(1902)
Director
The Dog and the Pipe
(1902)
Director
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
(1902)
Director
Alcohol and Its Victims
(1902)
Director
Samson et Dalila
(1902)
Director
The Fairy of Spring
(1902)
Director
La Vie d'un joueur
(1903)
Director
Don Quichotte
(1903)
Director
Ingenious Soubrette
(1903)
Director
Jésus succombe sous sa croix
(1903)
Director
Jésus au jardin des oliviers
(1903)
Director
Jésus devant Pilate
(1903)
Director
Jésus parmi les docteurs
(1903)
Director
Puss In Boots
(1903)
Director
Jésus est présenté au peuple
(1903)
Director
Jésus chassant les vendeurs du temple
(1903)
Director
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ
(1903)
Director
Jésus et la samaritaine
(1903)
Director
The Good Purge
(1904)
Director
The Wrong Door
(1904)
Director
The Strike
(1904)
Director
Le mitron
(1904)
Director
Vendetta
(1905)
Director
The Regret
(1905)
Director
The Pursuit of the Beer Barrels
(1905)
Director
The Car and the Cripple
(1905)
Director
Down in the Coal Mines
(1905)
Director
Scenes of Convict Life
(1905)
Director
A Father's Honor
(1905)
Director
Dream of the Moon
(1905)
Director
Les apaches de Paris
(1905)
Director
Marvellous Reversing
(1905)
Director
The Fantastic Diver
(1905)
Director
Revolution in Russia
(1905)
Director
Ten Wives For One Husband
(1905)
Director
The Incendiary
(1905)
Co-Director
Dranem's Dream
(1905)
Director
Fun After the Wedding
(1906)
Director
Whence Does He Come?
(1906)
Director
Down In The Deep
(1906)
Director
Wonderful Mirrors
(1907)
Director
The Pearl Fisherman
(1907)
Director
The Red Spectre
(1907)
Director
Métempsycose
(1907)
Director
The Policemen's Little Run
(1907)
Director
Jealousy and Madness
(1907)
Director
The Dreyfus Affair
(1908)
Director
A Diabolical Itching
(1908)
Director
Le Voleur invisible
(1909)
Director
Le caprice du vainqueur
(1910)
Director
Cléopâtre
(1910)
Director
La Tragique Aventure de Robert le Taciturne, duc d'Aquitaine
(1910)
Director
Slippery Jim
(1910)
Director
Gold Fever
(1912)
Director
When Paris Loves
(1913)
Director
Struggle for Life
(1914)
Director
L'étoile du génie
(1914)
Director
La danse héroïque
(1914)
Director
The Old Tragedian
(1915)
Director
Tears of Forgiveness
(1919)
Director
The Martyrdom of a Queen
(1919)
Director
Acting
Conquering the Skies
(1901)
An Idyll Under a Tunnel
(1901)
History of a Crime
(1901)
The Marvelous Hen
(1902)
Magician
How Monsieur Takes His Bath
(1903)
Marvellous Reversing
(1905)
Dream of the Moon
(1905)
Le pochard
Rigadin in the Balkans
(1913)
Paris Nineteen Hundred
(1948)
Self (archive footage)
Cinematógrafo 1900
(1979)
Self (archive footage)
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
Writing
History of a Crime
(1901)
Writer
Alcohol and Its Victims
(1902)
Writer
La Vie d'un joueur
(1903)
Screenplay
Miniature Theatre
(1906)
Writer
L'étoile du génie
(1914)
Scenario Writer
Struggle for Life
(1914)
Screenplay
Production
Poor Mother
(1906)
Producer
Cinderella
(1907)
Producer
Max Learns to Skate
(1907)
Producer
Don Juan
(1908)
Producer
Crew