Louis Nalpas

Louis Nalpas
Born	3 November 1884 Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
Died	1948 Paris, France
Occupation	Producer

Louis Nalpas (1884-1948) was a Greek-French film producer. Naplas was a leading producer during the silent era, and was employed by the large French studio Pathé. He was behind the company's construction of the Victorine Studios in Nice in 1921, which attempted to create a version of Hollywood on the French Riviera. He then broke away to form his own production company.

He produced many of the early films of director Abel Gance.

Selected filmography

• Le périscope (1916)
• Les Gaz mortels (1916)
• Le droit à la vie (1917)
• The Torture of Silence (1917)
• Barberousse (1917)
• The Zone of Death (1917)
• The Tenth Symphony (1918)
• La Fête espagnole (1920)
• Surcouf (1925)
• The Marriage of Rosine (1926)
• The Chocolate Girl (1927)
• Monte Cristo (1929)

Bibliography

• Crisp, C.G. The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960. Indiana University Press, 1993.

External links

• Louis Nalpas at IMDb