Jules Raucourt

Jules Raucourt, born on May 8, 1890, in Brussels, Belgium and died on January 30, 1967, in Los Angeles, California, was a Belgian film actor. He acted in Belgian, French and American film productions.

Life and career He is also known under the names Jules Raucort or Raucourt. He played roles for films between 1917 and 1939. He had more important roles were in silent film performances. He notably played in The Poor Gentleman (1921) by Armand Du Plessy based on the screenplay of the novel published in 1855 by Hendrik Conscience, produced by Hippolyte De Kempeneer.

Later, Raucourt played Mr. Jones #9413, the subject of the landmark experimental film The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928). His appearance in Life and Death of 9413 had some parallels with his life of beginning in lead roles in silents, then being relegated to small parts, often as an uncredited extra in his own career.

Partial filmography 1918: My Wife by Dell Henderson, as Ronald Farwell 1918: La Tosca by Edward José, as Mario Cavaradossi 1918: Prunella, by Maurice Tourneur 1928: His Tiger Wife by Hobart Henley 1928: The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapić 1930: Le sceptre vert by Jacques Feyder, as Sir James Rimsay 1934: Caravane by Erik Charell, as Baron de Tokay 1935: Folies-Bergère, by Marcel Achard and Roy Del Ruth, as the finance minister; (French version of Folies Bergère de Paris by Roy Del Ruth, 1935) 1935: The Lottery Lover, by Wilhelm Thiele, as Frenchman