Émile Reynaud: Émile Reynaud. Director: Le Rotisseur. Émile Reynaud was a French inventor born in Montreuil, Paris to Brutus Reynaud, an engineer who moved to Paris from Le Puy-en-Velay in 1842, and Marie-Caroline Bellanger, a former schoolteacher who educated Émile at home and taught him drawing and painting techniques. By 1862 he started his own career as a photographer in Paris. When his father died, him and mother both left Paris for...
Known For: Le Rotisseur (Director), Pauvre Pierrot (Director), Le jeu de corde (Director), La danse sur la corde (Director)