Acting
Antoine Lumière
Born 1840-10-18 · Besançon, France
Antoine Lumière (born October 18, 1840 – February 10, 1904) was a French businessman and photographer, best known as the father of the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis. In 1860, he left his hometown in the Haute-Saône to establish a photography business in Besançon. By 1870, he had moved to Lyons, where he expanded his business and built an industrial plant for manufacturing photographic plates. Under his leadership, the Lumière Company became a major producer, eventually employing 300 people and producing 15 million photographic plates annually. In 1893, Antoine's sons, Auguste and Louis, took over the factory, and it was their innovations that led to the development of cinema, with the Lumière brothers' invention of the Cinématographe revolutionizing the film industry.
Acting credits
4.9Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.
Départ en voiture
1896
5.5Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.
The Card Game
1896
5.6Three people playing cards.
Partie de cartes
1897
7.2A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France, narrated by Bertrand Tavernier.
The Lumière Brothers' First Films
1996
