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Daniel Mendaille (27 November 1885 – 17 May 1963) was a French people stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly sixty years.
Mendaille continued to work in theater and film throughout the 1910s and 1920s. Already a featured actor, he began performing in leading roles in such films as Léon Poirier's in Le coffret de jade (1921), Marcel Dumont's La proie (1921) and Robert Péguy's Le crime de Monique (1922). In 1923, he portrayed the Comte de Maupry in L'affaire du courrier de Lyon for Gaumont Film Company and was also part of the cast of Surcouf (1924) and Jean Chouan (1925), both serials directed by Luitz-Morat. In 1927 he appeared in the epic silent French historical film Napoléon directed by Abel Gance and the following year in the World War I silent docudrama opposite Albert Préjean, Suzanne Bianchetti, Berthe Jalabert and Antonin Artaud. CinéArtistes.com
Daniel Mendaille had little difficulty transitioning to the sound films of films. Notable performances of the 1930s include the portrayal of a miner in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's La tragédie de la mine (1931), the French-language version of Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), a diplomat in Alexis Granowsky's Moscow Nights opposite French actress Annabella (1934), as Gaston Roude in the first film adaptation of Émile Zola's L'Assommoir (1933) and as Micheletto, the chief henchman in Abel Gance's historical drama Lucrèce Borgia (1935).
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Mendaille would often be relegated to supporting roles as a character actor or in bit parts, with notable performances in such films as Jacques Becker's Casque d'Or (1952), Max Ophüls' The Earrings of Madame de… (1953), Christian-Jaque's adaptation of Émile Zola's Nana (1955) and Max Ophüls' Lola Montès (1955). Mendaille appeared in approximately 120 films. Le Cinéma Français
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