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{{Short description|American film director (1889–1955)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = René Plaissetty
| image = Rene_Plaissetty_NY.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1889|3|7}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1955|1|4|1889|3|7}}
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| occupation = Film director, film producer, film writer
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[[File:René PLAISSETTY.jpg|thumb|Plaissetty in 1954]]
[[File:La Sonnette du Diable - Cândido de Faria - 1910-1919 - NL-EYE-EFG1914 A15789.jpg|thumb|Poster for Plaissetty's French [[Pathé]] film ''La Sonnette du Diable. Drame fantasmagorique
'''René Plaissetty''' (
Son of Achille Plaissetty, chemist and businessman and Corinne Bonnecaze, professor of singing, René Plaissetty was born on March 7, 1889, in Chicago.
In 1907 he came to live in France and later married [[Yvonne Lacroix]], the daughter of Parisian couturier [[Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix]] and a French figure skating champion in 1908,<ref>Le Figaro, December 31, 1909, page 7.</ref> with two daughters, Jacqueline in 1909 and Micheline in 1911. With the help of other administrators he founded his production company Filma.<ref>Revue 1895</ref>
In January 1920, leaving his factory to his assistant, he left for London where he returned to the studios with Mary Massart, who became his muse. His English feature films of 1920 and 1921 made for the ''Stoll Film Co''<ref>Georges Sadoul, Histoire générale du cinéma.</ref> are noticed by critics for their aesthetic and thematic qualities such as the strange Yellow Claw, according to a story by Sax Rohmer.
In 1922, he returned to Paris and turned to [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont]] (in the series Pax) My little boy with Leontine Massart, sister of Mary. Still with the same producer, with Mary Massart, he staged an adaptation of Maurice Level's novel ''L'Île sans nom''. This eventful film (one sees in particular a shipwreck) receives a very favorable public and critical reception, due to the originality of the subject and the dramatic use of a new mode of communication, the [[Wireless telegraphy]].
In 1923 René Plaissetty considered American cinema more suited to his projects. He then returned to the United States with Mary Massart to marry in Los Angeles (they will have a son, Francis Léo) and met the director and producer Edwin Carewe. He immediately proposed the adaptation of a novel by Louise Gérard to ''[[A Son of the Sahara]]'' published in 1922 in New York City.
In 1943, he made an appearance as an actor in the film ''Mission to Moscow'', where he played [[Robert Coulondre]], French ambassador to [[Berlin]] at the beginning of the war under the pseudonym Alex Caze.
René Plaissetty died on January 4, 1955, in Los Angeles. He is buried in the Montebello Cemetery in California.
==Selected filmography==
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* ''Le Hussard'' with André Morgane (France, Production : SCAGL, Pathé, 1917)
* ''L'Heure sincère'' with [[Claude Garry]] et Maurice Lagrenée (France, Production : SCAGL, Pathé, 1917)
* ''Le masque de
* ''Le masque de
* ''Serpentin janissaire'' with [[Mary Massart]] et [[Marcel Lévesque]], 1918
* ''[[Une étoile de cinéma]]'' with [[Germaine Dermoz]] and [[Georges Mauloy]] (France, Production : SCAGL, Pathé, 1919)
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* ''[[The Broken Road (1921 film)|The Broken Road]]'' with Mary Massart (UK, 1921)
* ''[[The Four Feathers (1921 film)|The Four Feathers]]'' with Mary Massart and Harry Ham (UK, 1921)
* ''[[The Woman with the Fan (film)|The Woman with the Fan]]'' or ''La Femme à l'éventail'' with Mary Massart and Alec Fraser (UK, 1921)
* ''[[The Knave of Diamonds (film)|The Knave of Diamonds]] or ''Le Valet de Carreau'' with Mary Massart and [[Cyril Percival]] (UK, 1921)
* ''[[L'Île sans nom]]'' avec Mary Massart et [[Paul Amiot]] (France, 1922)
* ''[[Mon p'tit]]'' avec [[Léontine Massart]] et [[Arlette Marchal]] (France, 1922)
* ''[[A Son of the Sahara]]'' réalisé par [[Edwin Carewe]] assisté de René Plaissetty (US, 1924)
* ''L'Homme'' (US, 1924)
* ''The Link'' (US, 1924)
* ''La Fumée jaune'' (US, 1924)
* ''J'ai fait du pied pour avoir la main'' with
* ''[[Le Faiseur de statuettes]]'' with Nicole Robert and [[Maurice de
* ''[[La Grande Envolée]]'' with [[Ann Harding]] (France, 1927)
* ''[[Chair ardente]]'' with [[Jean Marchat]] (France, 1932)
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