Maurice Tourneur: Maurice Tourneur. Director: Au nom de la loi. Screenwriter and director Maurice Tourneur was born Maurice Thomas in the Parisian suburb of Belleville on February 2, 1873, the son of a jewelry merchant. He was trained and employed as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator as a young man. After serving in a French artillery unit in northern Africa, he became an assistant to sculptor Auguste Rodin and later...
Known For: Au nom de la loi (Director), The Closed Road (Director), The Hand of Peril (Director), The Broken Butterfly (Director)