Alfred Machin (20 April 1877 – 16 June 1929) was a French actor and film director.

[1] Machin started his career as a press photographer for the magazine L'illustration.

He shot some scenes of the French trenches which were used by D.W. Griffith in Hearts of the World[3] He only directed one horror film, The Manor House of Fear in 1927, which is thought to have been theatrically shown in the United States by Universal Pictures.

[4] After the war, Machin created a Film studio in Nice, to which a small zoo was attached where he kept wild animals used in his productions.

He died in 1929 as a result of an injury inflicted by a panther during the shooting of a film.