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Philippe Hériat
Born Raymond Gérard Payelle, he studied with film director René Clair and in 1920 made his debut in silent film. Over the next fifteen years, he appeared in secondary roles in another twenty-five films including the 1927 Abel Gance masterpiece, Napoleon. In 1949 Hériat collaborated with film director Jean Delannoy to write the screenplay for the film Le Secret de Mayerling.
Philippe Hériat won the 1931 Prix Renaudot for his book L'Innocent. In 1939 he won the Prix Goncourt for Les Enfants gâtés, and the 1947 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Famille Boussardel.
In 1949 he was made a member of the Académie Goncourt, a position he held until his death in 1971. Hériat is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
As actor
Bonaparte et la révolution
Lucrezia Borgia
Divine
Napoléon Bonaparte
Rothchild
Weaker Sex
Détresse
Napoleon at St. Helena
Saint Joan the Maid
Change of Heart
Napoleon
Sea Fever
La jalousie du barbouillé
La chaussée des géants
Nothing But Time
The Late Mathias Pascal
The Inhuman Woman
The Gallery of Monsters
The Flood
Miracle of the Wolves
Le marchand de plaisirs
Don Juan et Faust
Prometheus, Banker
El Dorado
The Man of the Sea
Le Carnaval des vérités