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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 by [[Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois]] and P. Guerville'', by [[Cândido de Faria]], 1910–1919?. Collection [[EYE Film Institute Netherlands]].]]
'''René Plaissetty''' (1889–1955) was an American film director.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090115070000/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/12741 BFI.org]</ref>
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
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.
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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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* ''[[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)
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* ''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 Féraudy]] (France, 1926)
* ''[[La Grande Envolée]]'' with [[Ann Harding]] (France, 1927)
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