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Daniel Mendaille

Daniel Mendaille
Born Daniel Henri Elie Mendaille
(1885-11-27)27 November 1885
Tours, France
Died 17 May 1963(1963-05-17) (aged 77)
Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, France
Other names D. Mendaille
Occupation Actor
Years active 1905–1959
Spouse(s) Leda Ginelly

Daniel Mendaille (27 November 1885 - 17 May 1963) was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly sixty years.

Born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Mendaille studied architecture at the Académie royale d'architecture, Institut de France in Paris. At age twenty, he abandoned his studies in architecture and enrolled in the Conservatoire de Paris and studied acting under Paul Mounet. After graduating, he was engaged at the Théâtre des Variétés, Cirque d'Hiver, Théâtre Antoine and the l’Œuvre et de la Renaissance.

During the early 1900s, he began appearing in small roles in film. One of his first roles was in the 1909 Albert Capellani-directed short La mort du duc d'Enghien en 1804 (English release title: The death of the Duc d'Enghien) for the Société Cinématographique des Auteurs et Gens de Lettres (SCAGL), affiliated with Pathé-Frères

Mendaille continued to work in theater and film throughout the 1910s and 1920s. Already a featured actor, he began performing in leading roles in such films as Léon Poirier's in Le coffret de jade (1921), Marcel Dumont's La proie (1921) and Robert Péguy's Le crime de Monique (1922). In 1923, he portrayed the Comte de Maupry in L'affaire du courrier de Lyon for Gaumont Film Company and was also part of the cast of Surcouf (1924) and Jean Chouan (1925), both serials directed by Luitz-Morat. In 1927 he appeared in the epic silent French historical film Napoléon directed by Abel Gance and the following year in the World War I silent docudrama Verdun: Visions of History opposite Albert Préjean, Suzanne Bianchetti, Berthe Jalabert and Antonin Artaud.


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