Ernest Maupain
actor
- Birth name:
- Ernest Victor Maupain
- Born:
- 1869-10-01, Évreux, Eure, France
- Died:
- 1944-10-25, Neuilly-Plaisance, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Born under the October sun of 1869 in Évreux, Eure, Ernest Maupain stepped onto the French stage and screen with a quiet intensity that still flickers in the archives of silent cinema. He stalked through the gaslit shadows of Sherlock Holmes (1916), plotted revenge in Monte Cristo (1929), and rallied wartime spirits in Why America Will Win (1918). Seventy-five years after his first breath, he closed his final act on 25 October 1944 in Neuilly-Plaisance, Seine-Saint-Denis, leaving behind the celluloid ghosts of a vanished era.
