Louis Nalpas

{{short description|French film producer}}

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| birth_date = 3 November 1884

| birth_place = Smyrna, Ottoman Empire

| death_date = 1948

| death_place = Paris, France

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| occupation = Producer

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Louis Nalpas (1884–1948) was a Greek-French film producer. He was a leading producer during the silent era, and was employed by the large French studio Pathé.{{Cite book|last=Crisp|first=Colin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzNZvdEpPHMC|title=The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960|date=1997|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-21115-6|language=en}}^:30 He was behind the company's construction of the Victorine Studios in Nice in 1921, which attempted to create a version of Hollywood on the French Riviera.^:95 He then broke away to form his own production company. He was the elder brother of producer Alex Nalpas.

Nalpas produced many of the early films of director Abel Gance. He was the maternal uncle of Antonin Artaud and was essential in establishing Artaud's career as a film actor.{{Cite book|last=Artaud|first=Antonin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hdhR9dmPah0C|title=Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings|date=1988-10-10|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06443-0|language=en}}^:623