20th-century French male actors

Gabriel_Gabrio

Gabriel Gabrio (born Édouard Gabriel Lelièvre; 13 January 1887 – 31 October 1946) was a French stage and film actor whose career began in cinema in the silent film era of the 1920s and spanned more than two decades. Gabrio is possibly best remembered for his roles as Jean Valjean in the 1925 Henri Fescourt-directed adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Cesare Borgia in the 1935 Abel Gance-directed biopic Lucrèce Borgia and as Carlos in the 1937 Julien Duvivier-directed gangster film Pépé le Moko, opposite Jean Gabin.

Émile_Drain

Émile Drain (1890–1966) was a French actor and comedian.
In 1925, he starred as Napoleon with Gloria Swanson in Madame Sans-Gene. In 1927 he played Napoleon in the Donald Crisp directed The Fighting Eagle. In 1948, he appeared, again as Napoleon, in the film The Lame Devil.