(from the article `Feyder, Jacques`) ...as an actor in 1912 and directed his first film the next year. The realistic L`Atlantide (1921), based on the novel by Pierre Benoît, was his ...(from the article `France, Anatole`) ...diverted from his role of an armchair philosopher and detached observer of life by his commitment to support Dreyfus. After 1900 he introduced his ...