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name: "Émile Keppens"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emile-keppens"
fi1m_id: "emile-keppens"
imdb_id: "nm0449136"
tmdb_id: 1058617
wikidata_id: "Q61756828"
roles: []
born: "12 January 1866"
died: "22 October 1926"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T23:31:28.975560+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Émile Keppens

## Identity

Émile Keppens

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emile-keppens
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emile-keppens
- **IMDb ID:** nm0449136
- **TMDB ID:** 1058617
- **Wikidata ID:** Q61756828
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61756828, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449136/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1058617

Actor. Born 12 January 1866 in belgique. Died 22 October 1926.

## Details

- **Born:** 12 January 1866, belgique
- **Died:** 22 October 1926
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61756828, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449136/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1058617

## Biography

Émile Keppens was a Belgian actor and film director of the silent era. Born in Brussels in 1866, he moved to Paris in 1903, where he managed a music-hall venue and performed on stage before entering cinema around 1910.

He appeared in numerous French productions, including serials directed by Louis Feuillade and Léonce Perret. Keppens played George Baldwin in *The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris* (1915) and featured in films such as *The Child of Paris* (1913) and *The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador* (1912). He also directed a small number of works, among them *L'Aiglonne* (1922).

Keppens died in Marseille in 1926.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris* (1915), Fi1m 82, as George Baldwin — [page](https://film.one/film/the-vampires-or-the-arch-criminals-of-paris.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Madame Sans-Gêne* (1925), as Constant
- *L'Aiglonne* (1922), Director
- *The Man with Three Masks* (1921), Director
- *The New Mission of Judex* (1917), as Milton
- *Barberousse* (1917), as Gesmus
- *Deadly Gas* (1916), Actor
- *The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris* (1915), as George Baldwin — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-vampires-or-the-arch-criminals-of-paris.md)
- *L'X Noir* (1915), Actor
- *L'énigme de dix heures* (1915), Actor
- *The First Adventures of Chéri Bibi* (1914), as Chéri Bibi
- *Les bretelles* (1913), Actor
- *The Child of Paris* (1913), as Pierre de Valen
- *The Pins* (1913), Actor
- *Zigomar - the Black Scourge - Episode 1* (1913), Actor
- *The Pavements of Paris* (1912), as Victor
- *The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador* (1912), as Le professeur Williams
- *La Rançon du Bonheur* (1912), Actor
- *Sur les rails* (1912), as Jacques
- *Hand of Iron* (1912), as Inspecteur Necker dit "Main de Fer"
- *Les batailles de la vie - Épisode 2: Le saboteur* (1912), Actor
- *La lumière et l'amour* (1912), Actor
- *Zigomar vs. Nick Carter* (1912), Actor
- *Main de Fer contre la bande aux gants blancs* (1912), as Main de fer
- *Main de fer et l'évasion du forçat de Croze* (1912), as Main de Fer

## Gallery

- ![Émile Keppens](https://film.one/media/person/3848073/gallery-45e753a3d511.jpg) Émile Keppens — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/La_nouvelle_mission_de_Judex_-_Georgette_De_Nerys%2C_%C3%89mile_Keppens_et_Louis_Leubas_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Émile Keppens](https://film.one/media/person/3848073/gallery-93df8d01f793.jpg) Émile Keppens — Image via TMDB

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