What became of it
Father Goriot
Honoré de Balzac · first published 1835
5 versions · 1915–2004
On screen
5Film and television, earliest first.
- 1915 Père Goriot Travers Vale
- 1921 Father Goriot Jacques de Baroncelli
- 1926 Paris at Midnight E. Mason Hopper
- 1945 Father Goriot Robert Vernay
- 2004 Old Goriot Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
Versions are listed where they are documented. A century of stage productions and most broadcasts were never catalogued at all, so this is what can be shown rather than everything that was ever made.