Sacha Guitry
Directing
Born February 20, 1885 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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.
Filmography
N'écoutez pas mesdames
A Night at the Opera
Une folie
Quadrille
Un type dans le genre de Napoléon
Faisons un rêve
Mon père avait raison
A Crime in Paradise
Le Nouveau Testament
Quadrille
Le Veilleur de nuit
Mon père avait raison
La Jalousie
Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
Nono
La Jalousie
La Pèlerine écossaise
Ooh La La!
At Theatre Tonight
The Nabob Affair
Life Together
Three Make a Pair
Murderers and Thieves
If Paris Were Told to Us
le narrateur et Louis XI
Napoleon
Talleyrand
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Louis XIV (older)
The Virtuous Scoundrel
Self in the prologue / Narrator (uncredited)
I Was It Three Times
Jean Renneval
Poison
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Deburau
Jean-Gaspard Deburau
Tu m'as sauvé la vie
Le baron de Saint-Rambert
The Treasure of Cantenac
Baron of Cantenac
Rendezvous in July
Toâ
Michel Desnoyers
Two Doves
Maître Jean-Pierre Walter
The Devil Who Limped
Talleyrand
The Private Life of an Actor
Lucien Guitry et Sacha Guitry
Paris 1900
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Narrator (voice)
La Malibran
Eugène Malibran
My Last Mistress
François
Mlle. Desiree
Napoléon 1er
Lucky Partners
Nine Bachelors
Jean Lécuyer
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Le Professeur, Louis XV, Ludovic, Jean-Louis et Napoléon III
L'Accroche-cœur
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Man Leaving Hotel in France (uncredited)
Quadrille
Philippe de Morannes, journaliste
Désiré
Désiré, le valet de chambre
The Pearls of the Crown
Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III
Le Mot de Cambronne
Le général Pierre Cambronne
Let's Make a Dream
L'Amant
My Father Was Right
Charles Bellanger
The Story of a Cheat
le tricheur
The New Testament
Le Docteur Marcelin
Good Luck
Claude
Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs
Self
Black and White
Sleeping Partners
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Mancha y Zaragosa
The Clairvoyant
The Lover of Camille
Un roman d’amour et d’aventures
Jean et Jacques Sarrazin
Those of Our Land