Benoît Duval
- Actor
Benoit Duval probably the first child film performer who was a
apprentice from the Lumiere factory in Lyon, France, was asked by the
pioneering film director Louis Lumiere to star in 'Table Turned on the
Gardener' Benoit played the gardener's son who slyly puts his foot on
the hosepipe, the flow of water stops, the gardener peers into the
nozzle then the boy withdraws his foot then gardener is drenched, boy
laughs, gardener played by Francois Clerc who was a genuine gardener,
another Lumiere employee.
