---
title: 'The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)'
type: 'film'
director: 'William Dieterle'
released: '1936-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 85
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-story-of-louis-pasteur-1936'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028313/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

1936 · 85 min · Drama, History · United States


## Synopsis

The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 American black-and-white biographical film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Henry Blanke, directed by William Dieterle, that stars Paul Muni as the renowned French scientist Louis Pasteur, who developed major advances in microbiology which revolutionized agriculture and medicine. The film's screenplay—which tells a highly fictionalized version of Pasteur's life—was written by Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney, as well as Edward Chodorov (uncredited).

## Credits

- **Director:** [William Dieterle](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-dieterle)
- **Screenplay:** [Sheridan Gibney](https://cinepixo.com/people/sheridan-gibney), [Pierre Collings](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-collings)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Heinz Eric Roemheld](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinz-eric-roemheld)
- **Producer:** [Henry Blanke](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-blanke), [Hal B. Wallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-b-wallis)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tony Gaudio](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-gaudio)
- **Editor:** [Ralph Dawson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-dawson)

## Cast

- [Donald Woods](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-woods)
- [Akim Tamiroff](https://cinepixo.com/people/akim-tamiroff)
- [Herbert Corthell](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-corthell)
- [Paul Muni](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-muni)
- [Josephine Hutchinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/josephine-hutchinson)
- [Anita Louise](https://cinepixo.com/people/anita-louise)
- [Raymond Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-brown)
- [Walter Kingsford](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-kingsford)
- [George Beranger](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-beranger)
- [Fritz Leiber](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-leiber-2)
- [Otto Hoffman](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-hoffman)
- [Halliwell Hobbes](https://cinepixo.com/people/halliwell-hobbes)
- [Niles Welch](https://cinepixo.com/people/niles-welch)
- [Henry O'Neill](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-o-neill)
- [Porter Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/porter-hall)

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