Emile Zola — The Life of Emile Zola Character Profile

About Emile Zola

The central protagonist, a celebrated French writer who transitions from a complacent upper-class author to a courageous defender of justice after exposing the anti-Semitic miscarriage of justice in the Dreyfus Affair.

Emile Zola — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Paul Muni

Appears in

The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

Role

Protagonist

More characters from The Life of Emile Zola

• Lucie Dreyfus (Gale Sondergaard)
• Capt. Alfred Dreyfus (Joseph Schildkraut)
• Alexandrine Zola (Gloria Holden)
• Commander of Paris (Ralph Morgan)
• Maitre Labori (Donald Crisp)
• M. Cavaignac (Montagu Love)
• Colonel Henry (Robert Warwick)
• Colonel Sandherr (Walter Kingsford)
• Nana (Erin O'Brien-Moore)
• Minister of War (Gilbert Emery)
• Major Walsin-Esterhazy (Robert Barrat)
• Georges Clemenceau (Grant Mitchell)