André de Lorde

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André de Lorde

André de Latour, comte de Lorde (1869–1942) was a French playwright, the main author of the Grand Guignol plays from 1901 to 1926. His evening career was as a dramatist of terror; during daytimes he worked as a librarian in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. He wrote 150 plays, all of them devoted mainly to the exploitation of terror and insanity, and a few novels. For plays the subject matter of which concerned mental illness he sometimes collaborated with psychologist Alfred Binet, the developer of IQ testing.

During the 1920s de Lorde was elected "Prince of Fear" (Prince de la Terreur) by his peers.

Filmography

• The Lonely Villa, directed by D. W. Griffith (1909, short film, based on the play Au Telephone)
• The System of Doctor Goudron, directed by Maurice Tourneur (1913, short film, based on the play Le Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume)
• Template:Interlanguage link multi, directed by Jacques Grétillat (1920, based on the play La Double Existence du docteur Morart)
• Le Château de la mort lente, directed by Émile-Bernard Donatien (1925, based on the play Le Château de la mort lente)
• Template:Interlanguage link multi, directed by Marc Allégret (1931, short film, based on the play Attaque nocturne)
• Template:Interlanguage link multi, directed by Maurice Tourneur (1934, short film, based on the play L'Homme mystérieux)
• Template:Interlanguage link multi, directed by Template:Interlanguage link multi (1933, based on the play Bagnes d'enfants)

Screenwriter

• Figures de cire, directed by Maurice Tourneur (1914, short film)
• Template:Interlanguage link multi, directed by Template:Interlanguage link multi (1920)
• Template:Interlanguage link multi, directed by Michel Bernheim (1936)

External links

• At the Telephone by André de Lorde

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