Charles Pathé

Charles Pathé

ActorProducerDirector Dec 26 (died age 93) Chevry-Cossigny, Seine-et-Marne, France 1896–2014 (118 year career)
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Biography

Charles Morand Pathé (26 December 1863 – 25 December 1957) was a pioneer of the French film and recording industries. As the founder of Pathé Frères, its roots lie in 1896 Paris, France, when Pathé and his brothers pioneered the development of the moving image. Pathé adopted the national emblem of France, the cockerel, as the trademark for his company. After the company, now called Compagnie Générale des Éstablissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes, invented the cinema newsreel wi…

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