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Albert Capellani (23 August 1874 – 26 September 1931) was a French film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed films between 1905 and 1922. One of his brothers was the actor-sculptor Paul Capellani, and another, film director Roger Capellani.
Capellani then hooked up with Pathé Exchange and founded his own film production company - Albert Capellani Productions - at the old Solax Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which had been built by another important French film pioneer, Alice Guy-Blaché, in 1910.
Albert Capellani Productions started in 1919 with an innovative “filmusical-comedy” after P. G. Wodehouse, Oh Boy! Capellani produced eight features, but the company encountered severe financial difficulties following the destruction of the studio laboratory.
'Cosmopolitan Productions', Albert Capellani: Pioneer of the Silent Screen (Lexington, KY, 2016; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 19 May 2016), https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813166438.003.0018, accessed 30 Nov. 2022.
It is staggering to think that Albert Capellani’s La Glu (1913), made so superbly and acted so naturalistically, was put out a few months before D. W. Griffith had released his first fourreeler into the Stone Age of the American feature.
Founder of Albert Capellani Productions, a production company active from 1919-20. In films from 1905 (with Pathe), directing film adaptations of classic novels. In the US from 1914-22, under contract to Metro, frequently directing Alla Nazimova and Clara Kimball Young .
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Among the films benefitting from these developments are the works of director Albert Capellani (1874–1931), whose oeuvre was instrumental in the development of cinema in the early 1900s and whose contributions rival those of D. W. Griffith.
