Joseph N. Ermolieff
- Production
- March 24, 1889 · Moscow, Russian Empire
- February 20, 1962
Biography
One of the first Russian film entrepreneurs. In October 1907, while still a law student at Moscow University, he was hired as a junior technician in the Moscow branch of the "Pathé Brothers" film company. A year later, he was already the head of the company's sales department, and three years later, he was the general representative of "Pathe" in Russia. Since 1912 - co-owner of the rental company "Ermoliev, Zarkhin and Segel" (in Rostov-on-Don). In 1915 he founded his own film studio "I. Ermoliev”, under the auspices of which more than 120 films were released. In 1918 he opened a branch of the film company in Yalta. Since 1920 - in exile. Settled in France, where he organized the company "Ermolieff-Cinéma". It translated Russian films for foreign distribution. In 1936, he was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor for services to the French film industry. A year later, he moved to the United States, where he produced films in Hollywood until the end of his life.
Known for
Filmography
- Fort Algiers · Producer
- Outpost in Morocco · Story, Producer
- Miguel Strogoff · Writer, Producer
- Nuits de princes · Writer
- The Soldier and the Lady · Producer
- The Czar's Courier · Producer
- When we were two · Sound
- Taras Bulba · Director, Producer
- Member Of Parliament · Producer
- The House of Mystery · Producer
- The Child of the Carnival · Producer
- Punin and Baburin · Producer
- White and Black · Producer
- Rude Girl · Producer
- Father Sergius · Producer
- A Knight of the Spirit · Producer
- Jenny the Maid · Producer
- Little Ellie · Producer
- The Station Master · Producer
- Satan Triumphant · Producer
- Behind the Screen · Producer
- The Prosecutor · Producer
- Dance of Death · Producer
- The Beggar Woman · Producer
- Sin · Producer
- She Seeked Happiness So Madly, So Passionately · Producer
- The Hawk's Nest · Producer
- In a Lively Place · Producer
- Life is a Moment, Art is Forever · Producer
- The Queen of Spades · Producer
- Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden · Producer
- Nikolay Stavrogin · Producer
- Here Comes The Postal Troyka... · Producer
- Sashka The Seminarian · Producer
- In The Whirlpool Of Moscow · Fyodor, Producer