Alice Guy-Blaché

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1873-07-01 (95 years old)

Deathday

1968-03-24

Place of Birth

Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

Alice Guy-Blaché

Biography

Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) is generally considered to be the world's first female director. French-born Alice Guy entered the film business as a secretary at Gaumont-Paris in 1896. The next year Gaumont changed from manufacturing cameras to producing movies, and Guy became one of its first film directors. She impressed the company so much with the output (she averaged two two-reelers a week) and quality of her productions that by 1905 she was made the company's production director, supervising the company's other directors. In 1907 she married Herbert Blaché, an Englishman who ran the company's British and German offices...

Production

1896

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

as Director of Photography

1897

1906

A Sticky Woman

as Director

1906

1906

1906

The Stepmother

as Director

1906

Ocean Studies

as Director

1906

1906

1912

1912

Playing Trumps

as Director

1916

The Ocean Waif

as Director

1901

Danse basque

as Director

1912

Falling Leaves

as Director

1902

Eccentric Dance

as Director

1905

The Statue

as Director

1905

The Bricklayers

as Director

1898

Disappearing Act

as Director

1899

At the Club

as Director

1900

The Landlady

as Director

1905

Spain

as Director

1898

1900

1900

1897

1899

1900

1897

The Burglars

as Director

1902

1905

1905

1900

1897

1913

A House Divided

as Director

1912

Canned Harmony

as Director

1900

1905

Faust

as Director

1897

Ballet Libella

as Director

1906

1914

The Tigress

as Director

1898

La cène

as Director

1913

Napoleon

as Director

1915

My Madonna

as Director

1915

My Madonna

as Writer

1916

1914

1904

Electrocution

as Director

1912

In the Year 2000

as Director

1912

Algie, the Miner

as Producer

1896

1896

Les congierges

as Director

1907

The Banknote

as Director

1906

1912

1906

1912

1912

1912

1912

Algie, the Miner

as Director

1911

1914

The Lure

as Writer

1914

The Lure

as Director

1911

Tramp Strategy

as Director

1915

The Vampire

as Producer

1915

The Vampire

as Director

1900

Coucher d'une Parisienne

as Scenario Writer

1914

The Dream Woman

as Screenplay

1914

The Dream Woman

as Director

1906

Les Druides

as Director

1906

1905

Esmeralda

as Director

1913

A Severe Test

as Director

1899

1912

Canned Harmony

as Producer

1917

The Adventurer

as Director

1902

1902

La Gigue

as Director

1902

Serpentine Dance

as Director

1912

1906

1900

1911

1912

His Double

as Director

1913

A House Divided

as Producer

1911

Mixed Pets

as Director

1904

1913

1912

God Disposes

as Director

1917

House of Cards

as Director

1917

The Empress

as Director

1917

The Empress

as Writer

1912

Fra Diavolo

as Writer

1912

Fra Diavolo

as Director

1918

1917

1912

1912

1905

In a Bamboo Hut

as Director

1912

1912

1912

Parson Sue

as Director

1911

1905

The Sock

as Director

1913

The Thief

as Director

1912

A Man's a Man

as Director

1912

The Strike

as Director

2007

Butterfly Dances

as Director

1913

1913

1906

Mireille

as Director

1912

The Sewer

as Producer

1906

1911

1912

Broken Oaths

as Director

1910

Bonsoir

as Co-Director

1905

1917

Behind the Mask

as Director

1912

Dublin Dan

as Producer

1914

The Woman of Mystery

as Scenario Writer

1914

1913

1913

1913

1912

1911

Greater Love Hath No Man

as Executive Producer

1912

Mignon

as Director

1912

1912

1912

1912

Blighted Lives

as Director

1912

1912

1912

1912

Phantom Paradise

as Director

1912

1912

1912

1912

Hearts Unknown

as Director

1913

Burstup Homes

as Director

1912

1912

1916

1916

1912

The Equine Spy

as Producer

2025

Key of Gibraltar

as Assistant Director of Photography

1905

Tango

as Director

1904

Token of Love

as Director

1912

1907

The Glue

as Director

2025

1907

The Fur Hat

as Director

1907

The Cleaning Man

as Director

1907

The Rolling Bed

as Director

1907

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