 "Le Feu à la mine" (1911), was one of his first films to be relatively successful.In 1913, he started the "Léonce" series which consisted of Léonce himself playing dramatic, comic and even burlesque characters; he would film around forty episodes of this series.That same year he directed the dramatic comedy "Le Mariage de minuit" ("Midnight Marriage") featuring Suzanne Grandais, an actress he had discovered at the Moulin Rouge.