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. ...
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Películas (70)
N'écoutez pas mesdames
2021 · Writer
Une nuit à l’opéra
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Une folie
2016 · Writer
Quadrille
2013 · Author
Un type dans le genre de Napoléon
2008 · Theatre Play
Faisons un rêve
2007 · Author
Mon père avait raison
2007 · Writer
Un crimen en el paraíso
2001 · Writer
Le Nouveau Testament
1999 · Author
The Comedian
1997 · Theatre Play
Quadrille
1997 · Screenplay
Le Veilleur de nuit
1996 · Theatre Play
Mon père avait raison
1996 · Writer
La Jalousie
1992 · Author
Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
1985 · Author
Nono
1984 · Screenplay
La Jalousie
1976 · Screenplay
L'Amour masqué
1974 · Writer
La Pèlerine écossaise
1972 · Author
Zwei ganze Tage
1970 · Original Story
Vingt-neuf degrés à l'ombre
1969 · Songs
The Nabob Affair
1960 · Writer
Life Together
1958 · Writer
Three Make a Pair
1957 · Director, Writer
Murderers and Thieves
1956 · Director, Writer
If Paris Were Told to Us
1956 · le narrateur et Louis XI, Director, Story
Napoleon
1955 · Talleyrand, Writer, Director
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953 · Louis XIV (older), Director, Writer, Producer
The Virtuous Scoundrel
1953 · Self in the prologue / Narrator (uncredited), Director, Writer
I Was It Three Times
1952 · Jean Renneval, Director, Writer
Poison
1951 · Director, Writer
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
1951 · Writer
Deburau
1951 · Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Director, Writer
Tu m'as sauvé la vie
1950 · Le baron de Saint-Rambert, Director, Writer
The Treasure of Cantenac
1950 · Baron of Cantenac, Director, Writer
Rendezvous in July
1949 · Story
Toâ
1949 · Michel Desnoyers, Director, Screenplay
Two Doves
1949 · Maître Jean-Pierre Walter, Dialogue, Adaptation, Screenplay, Director
The Devil Who Limped
1948 · Talleyrand, Director, Writer
The Private Life of an Actor
1948 · Lucien Guitry et Sacha Guitry, Director, Screenplay
Paris 1900
1948 · Consulting Producer
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944 · Narrator (voice), Director
La Malibran
1944 · Eugène Malibran, Director, Writer
My Last Mistress
1943 · François, Writer, Director
Mlle. Desiree
1942 · Napoléon 1er, Director, Writer
Lucky Partners
1940 · Story
Nine Bachelors
1939 · Jean Lécuyer, Director, Writer
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
1938 · Le Professeur, Louis XV, Ludovic, Jean-Louis et Napoléon III, Director, Writer
L'Accroche-cœur
1938 · Writer
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938 · Man Leaving Hotel in France (uncredited)
Quadrille
1938 · Philippe de Morannes, journaliste, Director, Writer
Désiré
1937 · Désiré, le valet de chambre, Director, Writer
The Pearls of the Crown
1937 · Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III, Director, Screenplay
Le Mot de Cambronne
1937 · Le général Pierre Cambronne, Writer, Director
Let's Make a Dream
1936 · L'Amant, Screenplay, Director, Theatre Play
My Father Was Right
1936 · Charles Bellanger, Director, Writer
The Story of a Cheat
1936 · le tricheur, Writer, Director
The New Testament
1936 · Le Docteur Marcelin, Theatre Play, Screenplay, Dialogue, Director
Good Luck
1935 · Claude, Director, Writer
Pasteur
1935 · Louis Pasteur, Director, Writer
Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs
1934 · Self, Screenplay, Director, Dialogue
Black and White
1931 · Theatre Play, Screenplay
Sleeping Partners
1930 · Theatre Play
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
1926 · Mancha y Zaragosa
The Clairvoyant
1924 · Theatre Play
The Lover of Camille
1924 · Novel
Une petite main qui se place
1922 · Director
Un roman d’amour et d’aventures
1918 · Jean et Jacques Sarrazin, Screenplay
Oscar rencontre mademoiselle Manageot
1918 · Director
Those of Our Land
1915 · Director
