Sacha Guitry

Biography

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 Secon…

Directed

1. Poison (1951) — Director
2. The Story of a Cheat (1936) — Director
3. Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953) — Director
4. Napoleon (1955) — Director
5. Quadrille (1938) — Director
6. The Pearls of the Crown (1937) — Director
7. Let's Make a Dream (1936) — Director
8. The Virtuous Scoundrel (1953) — Director
9. Désiré (1937) — Director
10. The New Testament (1936) — Director
11. If Paris Were Told to Us (1956) — Director
12. Murderers and Thieves (1956) — Director
13. The Devil Who Limped (1948) — Director
14. Nine Bachelors (1939) — Director
15. Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938) — Director
16. Mlle. Desiree (1942) — Director
17. Good Luck (1935) — Director
18. Three Make a Pair (1957) — Director
19. Le Mot de Cambronne (1937) — Director
20. My Last Mistress (1943) — Director
21. My Father Was Right (1936) — Director
22. Those of Our Land (1915) — Director
23. I Was It Three Times (1952) — Director
24. Two Doves (1949) — Director
25. Tu m'as sauvé la vie (1950) — Director
26. The Private Life of an Actor (1948) — Director
27. The Treasure of Cantenac (1950) — Director
28. Deburau (1951) — Director
29. La Malibran (1944) — Director
30. Pasteur (1935) — Director
31. Toâ (1949) — Director
32. From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain (1944) — Director
33. Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs (1934) — Director
34. Oscar rencontre mademoiselle Manageot (1918) — Director
35. Une petite main qui se place (1922) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1938) — Man Leaving Hotel in France (uncredited)
2. The Story of a Cheat (1936) — le tricheur
3. Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953) — Louis XIV (older)
4. Napoleon (1955) — Talleyrand
5. Quadrille (1938) — Philippe de Morannes, journaliste
6. The Pearls of the Crown (1937) — Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III
7. Let's Make a Dream (1936) — L'Amant
8. Désiré (1937) — Désiré, le valet de chambre
9. The Virtuous Scoundrel (1953) — Self in the prologue / Narrator (uncredited)
10. The New Testament (1936) — Le Docteur Marcelin
11. If Paris Were Told to Us (1956) — le narrateur et Louis XI
12. The Devil Who Limped (1948) — Talleyrand
13. Nine Bachelors (1939) — Jean Lécuyer
14. Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938) — Le Professeur, Louis XV, Ludovic, Jean-Louis et Napoléon III
15. Mlle. Desiree (1942) — Napoléon 1er
16. Good Luck (1935) — Claude
17. Le Mot de Cambronne (1937) — Le général Pierre Cambronne
18. My Last Mistress (1943) — François
19. My Father Was Right (1936) — Charles Bellanger
20. I Was It Three Times (1952) — Jean Renneval
21. Two Doves (1949) — Maître Jean-Pierre Walter
22. A Night at the Opera (2020) — Self (archive footage)
23. Tu m'as sauvé la vie (1950) — Le baron de Saint-Rambert
24. The Private Life of an Actor (1948) — Lucien Guitry et Sacha Guitry
25. The Treasure of Cantenac (1950) — Baron of Cantenac
26. Camille: The Fate of a Coquette (1926) — Mancha y Zaragosa
27. Deburau (1951) — Jean-Gaspard Deburau
28. La Malibran (1944) — Eugène Malibran
29. Pasteur (1935) — Louis Pasteur
30. Toâ (1949) — Michel Desnoyers
31. Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs (1934) — Self
32. From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain (1944) — Narrator (voice)
33. Un roman d’amour et d’aventures (1918) — Jean et Jacques Sarrazin
34. Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) — Self (archive footage)