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Sacha Guitry

Sacha Guitry

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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.

Born: February 20, 1885 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Died: July 24, 1957 (Age 72)

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Sacha Guitry  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.6
ActorClaude1935
Movie
6.1
Actorle narrateur et Louis XI1956
Movie
6.8
ActorL'Amant1936
Movie
6.7
ActorLe Docteur Marcelin1936
Movie
6.7
ActorDésiré1937
Movie
6.8
ActorMaître Jean-Pierre Walter1949
Movie
7.4
Actorle tricheur1936
Movie
6.7
ActorJean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III1937
Movie
5.8
ActorTalleyrand1955
Movie
6.6
ActorLouis XIV (plus âgé)1954
Movie
6.6
ActorPhilippe de Morannes1938
Movie
6.7
ActorTalleyrand1948
Movie
6.8
ActorJean Lécuyer1939
Movie
6.5
ActorCharles Bellanger1936
Movie
6.4
ActorLe Professeur, Louis XV, Ludovic, Jean-Louis et Napoléon III1938
Movie
6.2
ActorNapoléon 1er1941
Movie
6.6
ActorLucien Guitry et Sacha Guitry1948
Movie
6.1
Actorle baron de Cantenac et le conteur1950
Movie
6.9
ActorFrançois1943
Movie
6.1
ActorLe baron de Saint-Rambert1950
Movie
6.7
ActorJean-Gaspard Deburau1951
Movie
6.4
ActorJean Renneval1952
Movie
6.5
ActorEugène Malibran1944
Movie
6.3
ActorLouis Pasteur1935
Movie
6.8
ActorMichel Desnoyers1949
Movie
5.8
ActorNarrator (voice)1944
Movie
6.7
Actor1953
Movie
7
ActorMan Leaving Hotel in France (uncredited)1938
TV Show
8.5
ActorSelf (archive footage)
1 Episode
1978-1979
Short Film
6
ActorLe Général Pierre Cambronne1937
Short Film
4.4
ActorMancha y Zaragosa1926
Short Film
5.6
ActorHimself1934
Movie
6.6
WritingWriter2001
Movie
5.1
WritingWriter1951
Movie
6.8
DirectingDirector, Screenplay, Adaptation, Dialogue1949
Movie
5.2
WritingTheatre Play, Screenstory1931
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1937
Movie
6.6
DirectingDirector, Writer1935
Movie
6.1
DirectingDirector, Story1956
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector, Screenplay, Dialogue, Theatre Play1936
Movie
7.3
DirectingDirector, Writer1951
Movie
6.4
DirectingDirector, Writer1957
Movie
6.8
DirectingDirector, Screenplay, Theatre Play1936
Movie
5.7
WritingWriter1958
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1956
Movie
6.3
WritingStory1940
Movie
6.2
DirectingDirector1941
Movie
6.5
DirectingDirector, Writer1936
Movie
6.9
DirectingDirector, Writer1943
Movie
5.8
DirectingDirector, Writer1955
Movie
6.8
DirectingDirector, Writer1939
Movie
5.5
WritingScreenplay1997
Movie
6.6
DirectingDirector, Writer1938
Movie
6.4
DirectingDirector, Writer1938
Movie
6.9
WritingStory1949
Movie
6.6
DirectingDirector, Writer, Producer1954
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1948
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1937
Movie
6.6
DirectingDirector1948
Movie
7.4
DirectingDirector, Writer1936
Movie
6.1
DirectingDirector1950
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1953
Short Film
7.7
DirectingDirector1915
Movie
6.1
DirectingDirector1950
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1951
Movie
6.4
DirectingDirector, Writer1952
Movie
5.9
WritingWriter1938
Movie
6.5
DirectingDirector, Writer1944
Movie
WritingTheatre Play1930
Movie
6.3
DirectingDirector, Scenario Writer1935
Movie
5.8
DirectingDirector1944
Movie
6.8
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1949
Movie
6.9
WritingTheatre Play1924
Movie
7.3
WritingNovel1924
Movie
WritingAuthor1972
Movie
WritingScreenplay1984
Movie
WritingAuthor1992
TV Show
7.7
WritingTheatre Play
2 Episodes
1968-1973
TV Show
8.1
WritingTheatre Play, Author
1 Episode
1966-1990
Short Film
6
DirectingDirector, Writer1937
Short Film
5.6
DirectingDirector, Screenplay, Dialogue1934
Movie
7.9
WritingAuthor2007
Movie
6.4
WritingOriginal Story1970
Movie
7.5
WritingWriter1996
Movie
5.5
WritingTheatre Play1996
TV Special
WritingAuthor2013
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