Acting
Jacques Volnys
Born — Died
1866-08-05 — 1925-05-14
Place of birth
Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
15 titles
Known for
A wealthy theatre owner decides to leave his wife for a dancer.
Venus Victrix
1917
No synopsis available yet.
Le Sorcier
1917
One night, someone came looking for Mr. Stevens to take care of an urgent matter … Claude Stevens (played by Claude Machin), who ignored yet the urgent matters, slept an innocent sleep. After returning home, he discovered that Claude has disappeared. And the mysterious kidnapper entrusted an ape to looks after Claude.
L'énigme du Mont Agel
1924
L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.
L'infirmière
1914
No synopsis available yet.
La joueuse d'orgue
1916
9.0Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Matthew Versigny discovers that the jewels his diamond company has been buying are fake, he travels to Europe to track down the counterfeiter. With him are his sister, Marguerite and her sweetheart, Paul Bernac, who is an agent in the French Secret Service.
The Empire of Diamonds
1920
Film credits
1920s · 3 titles
One night, someone came looking for Mr. Stevens to take care of an urgent matter … Claude Stevens (played by Claude Machin), who ignored yet the urgent matters, slept an innocent sleep. After returning home, he discovered that Claude has disappeared. And the mysterious kidnapper entrusted an ape to looks after Claude.
L'énigme du Mont Agel
1924
9.0Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Matthew Versigny discovers that the jewels his diamond company has been buying are fake, he travels to Europe to track down the counterfeiter. With him are his sister, Marguerite and her sweetheart, Paul Bernac, who is an agent in the French Secret Service.
The Empire of Diamonds
1920
10.0No synopsis available yet.
L'Éternel féminin
1921
1910s · 10 titles
A wealthy theatre owner decides to leave his wife for a dancer.
Venus Victrix
1917
No synopsis available yet.
Le Sorcier
1917
L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.
L'infirmière
1914
No synopsis available yet.
La joueuse d'orgue
1916
An industrialist badly in need of money hopes to marry his daughter off to a rich suitor, but she only has eyes for her penniless childhood sweetheart.
Géo, le mystérieux
1917
A man is accused of the murder of a banker in order to get some money. In the meantime, the banker's wife is somehow convinced that she killed her husband after a violent fight to save her child's honor. But the actual murderer happens to be a third party.
Blessée au coeur
1917
No synopsis available yet.
La mort rédemptrice
1918
A 1916 french silent film.
Twilight of the Heart
1916
9.0A serial in six episodes: 1) La seconde Marquise de Sombreuse; 2) Le Chateau maudit; 3) Folle; 4) L'Exilee; 5) La Danseuse inconnue; 6) Hallucination et realite. Set in modern day France in a chateau thought to be haunted since the Revolution, a Marquis and his daughter Irene (granddaughter of Marie Antoinette's lady companion) are preyed upon by Latin seductress, Lola, and her brother, Pedro. (Summary by Tami Williams, from the 2018 Il Cinema Ritrovato film program)
Âmes de fous
1918
Un drame au château d'Acre is a 1915 silent short
Un drame au château d'Acre
1915
1900s · 2 titles
Monsieur de La Valette, arrested on the return of the Bourbons and sentenced to death as a conspirator, escapes from prison thanks to his wife's plan.
L'évasion de Mr de La Valette
1909
7.0An adaptation not of Zola’s novel but of the play William Busnach and Octave Gastineau derived from it.
Moines et guerriers
1909