Georges Monca

{{Short description|French film director}} {{Infobox person | name = Georges Monca | image = Georges Monca (1867-1939) réalisateur (A).jpg | image_size = | caption = Monica circa 1920 | birth_date = 23 October 1867 | birth_place = Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France | death_date = 26 December 1939 | death_place = Paris, France | birth_name = Georges Jean-Baptiste Monca | occupation = Director, Writer, Actor | years_active = 1897–1937 (film) }} '''Georges Jean-Baptiste Monca''' ( 23 October 1867 – 26 December 1939) was a French film director. He was extremely prolific, making nearly four hundred films during his career - mainly during the silent era.<ref>Goble p.42</ref> His shorts ''Rigadin Directeur de Cinéma'' and ''Rigadin et le Chien de la Baronne'' were preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=https://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=rigadin&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Romain Kalbris'' (1923) * ''Lucile'' (1927) * ''Miss Helyett'' (1928) * ''Billeting Order'' (1932) * ''Wedding Night'' (1935) * ''Three Days Leave'' (1936)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0597597}}

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