Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry (21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957), known as Sacha Guitry, was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, particularly in boulevardier roles. He was also a prolific playwright, writing 115 plays throughout his career. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932. Guitry's plays range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. When silent films became popular Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many as five films in a single year. The later years of Guitry's career were overshadowed by accusations of collaborating with the occupying Germans after the capitulation of France in the Second World War. The charges were dismissed, but Guitry, a strongly patriotic man, was disillusioned by the vilification he received from some of his compatriots. By the time of his death, his popular esteem had been restored to the extent that 12,000 people filed past his coffin before his burial in Paris. Guitry was born at No 12 Nevsky Prospect, Saint Petersburg, Russia, the third son of the French actors Lucien Guitry and his wife Marie-Louise-Renée née Delmas de Pont-Jest (1858–1902). The couple had eloped, in the face of family disapproval, and were married at St Martin in the Fields, London, in 1882. They then moved to the then Russian capital, where Lucien ran the French theatre company, the Théâtre Michel, from 1882 to 1891. The marriage was brief. Guitry senior was a persistent adulterer, and his wife instituted divorce proceedings in 1888. Two of their sons died in infancy (one in 1883 and the other in 1887); the other surviving son, Jean (1884–1920) became an actor and journalist. The family's Russian nurse habitually shortened Alexandre-Pierre's name to the Russian diminutive "Sacha", by which he was known all his life. The young Sacha made his stage debut in his father's company at the age of five. Lucien Guitry, considered the most distinguished actor in France since Coquelin, was immensely successful, both critically and commercially. When he returned to Paris he lived in a flat in a prestigious spot, overlooking the Place Vendôme and the Rue de la Paix. The young Sacha lived there, and for his schooling he was first sent to the well-known Lycée Janson de Sailly in the fashionable Sixteenth arrondissement. He did not stay long there, and went to a succession of other schools, both secular and religious, before abandoning formal education at the age of sixteen. ... Source: Article "Sacha Guitry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
(Man Leaving Hotel in France (uncredited))
Napoleon
(Talleyrand)
My Father Was Right
(Charles Bellanger)
Bonne chance
(Claude)
Nine Bachelors
(Jean Lécuyer)
The Devil Who Limped
(Talleyrand)
The Story of a Cheat
(le tricheur)
Tu m'as sauvé la vie
(Le baron de Saint-Rambert)
Deburau
(Jean-Gaspard Deburau)
If Paris Were Told to Us
(le narrateur et Louis XI)
The Private Life of an Actor
(Lucien Guitry et Sacha Guitry)
La Malibran
(Eugène Malibran)
Le Mot de Cambronne
(Le Général Pierre Cambronne)
The Treasure of Cantenac
(le baron de Cantenac et le conteur)
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
(Le Professeur, Louis XV, Ludovic, Jean-Louis et Napoléon III)
The Pearls of the Crown
(Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III)
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
(Mancha y Zaragosa)
I Was It Three Times
(Jean Renneval)
Let's Make a Dream
(L'Amant)
The New Testament
(Le Docteur Marcelin)
Quadrille
(Philippe de Morannes)
Désiré
(Désiré)
Two Doves
(Maître Jean-Pierre Walter)
The Virtuous Scoundrel
Mlle. Desiree
(Napoléon 1er)
My Last Mistress
(François)
Pasteur
(Louis Pasteur)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
(Louis XIV (plus âgé))
Toâ
(Michel Desnoyers)
Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs
(lui-même)
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
(Narrator (voice))
Un roman d’amour et d’aventures
(Jean et Jacques Sarrazin)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
(Self (archive footage))
Bonne chance
(Director)
My Father Was Right
(Director)
Poison
(Director)
The Story of a Cheat
(Writer)
The Story of a Cheat
(Director)
The Devil Who Limped
(Director)
Three Make a Pair
(Director)
Black and White
(Screenstory)
Nine Bachelors
(Director)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
(Director)
Deburau
(Director)
Tu m'as sauvé la vie
(Director)
La Malibran
(Director)
Le Mot de Cambronne
(Writer)
Those of Our Land
(Director)
The Virtuous Scoundrel
(Director)
If Paris Were Told to Us
(Director)
Le Mot de Cambronne
(Director)
The Private Life of an Actor
(Director)
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
(Director)
The Treasure of Cantenac
(Director)
A Crime in Paradise
(Writer)
The Pearls of the Crown
(Director)
The Pearls of the Crown
(Screenplay)
Rendezvous in July
(Story)
Faisons un rêve
(Author)
I Was It Three Times
(Director)
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
(Writer)
Let's Make a Dream
(Screenplay)
The New Testament
(Theatre Play)
The New Testament
(Screenplay)
Quadrille
(Director)
Let's Make a Dream
(Director)
The New Testament
(Dialogue)
Let's Make a Dream
(Theatre Play)
The New Testament
(Director)
Quadrille
(Writer)
Two Doves
(Dialogue)
Two Doves
(Adaptation)
Two Doves
(Screenplay)
Désiré
(Director)
Two Doves
(Director)
Désiré
(Writer)
Murderers and Thieves
(Director)
Life Together
(Writer)
Mlle. Desiree
(Director)
I Was It Three Times
(Writer)
Lucky Partners
(Story)
My Last Mistress
(Writer)
My Last Mistress
(Director)
Le Veilleur de nuit
(Theatre Play)
La Malibran
(Writer)
Mon père avait raison
(Writer)
Mon père avait raison
(Writer)
Three Make a Pair
(Writer)
L'Accroche-cœur
(Writer)
Nono
(Screenplay)
Une folie
(Writer)
Zwei ganze Tage
(Original Story)
Pasteur
(Director)
N'écoutez pas mesdames
(Writer)
The Clairvoyant
(Theatre Play)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
(Writer)
Bonne chance
(Writer)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
(Producer)
Quadrille
(Screenplay)
Toâ
(Director)
Toâ
(Screenplay)
The Nabob Affair
(Writer)
Poison
(Writer)
Sleeping Partners
(Theatre Play)
La jalousie
(Screenplay)
Edgar Degas Filmed Walking Down a Paris Street
(Director)
La Jalousie
(Author)
La Pèlerine écossaise
(Author)
Quadrille
(Author)
Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
(Author)
The Devil Who Limped
(Writer)
Vingt-neuf degrés à l'ombre
(Songs)
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
(Director)
Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs
(Screenplay)
Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs
(Director)
Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs
(Dialogue)
Oscar rencontre mademoiselle Manageot
(Director)
Murderers and Thieves
(Writer)
Black and White
(Theatre Play)
The Lover of Camille
(Novel)
Nine Bachelors
(Writer)
Le Nouveau Testament
(Author)
Deburau
(Writer)
The Virtuous Scoundrel
(Writer)
Napoleon
(Writer)
Napoleon
(Director)
My Father Was Right
(Writer)
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
(Writer)
If Paris Were Told to Us
(Story)
Pasteur
(Scenario Writer)
Un roman d’amour et d’aventures
(Screenplay)
Une petite main qui se place
(Director)
At Theatre Tonight
(Theatre Play)
Ooh La La!
(Theatre Play)
At Theatre Tonight
(Author)