Sacha Guitry

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1885-02-20 (72 years old)

Deathday

1957-07-24

Place of Birth

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

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 ...

Acting

1938

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

as Man Leaving Hotel in France (uncredited)

1955

Napoleon

as Talleyrand

1936

My Father Was Right

as Charles Bellanger

1935

Good Luck

as Claude

1939

Nine Bachelors

as Jean Lécuyer

1936

The Story of a Cheat

as le tricheur

1948

1950

Tu m'as sauvé la vie

as Le baron de Saint-Rambert

1951

Deburau

as Jean-Gaspard Deburau

1956

If Paris Were Told to Us

as le narrateur et Louis XI

1937

Le Mot de Cambronne

as Le Général Pierre Cambronne

1944

La Malibran

as Eugène Malibran

1948

The Private Life of an Actor

as Lucien Guitry et Sacha Guitry

1950

The Treasure of Cantenac

as Baron of Cantenac

1938

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

as Le Professeur, Louis XV, Ludovic, Jean-Louis et Napoléon III

1937

The Pearls of the Crown

as Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III

1926

1952

I Was It Three Times

as Jean Renneval

1936

1936

The New Testament

as Le Docteur Marcelin

1937

Désiré

as Désiré

1938

Quadrille

as Philippe de Morannes

1949

Two Doves

as Maître Jean-Pierre Walter

1953

The Virtuous Scoundrel

as Self in the prologue / Narrator (uncredited)

1941

Mlle. Desiree

as Napoléon 1er

1943

My Last Mistress

as François

1935

Pasteur

as Louis Pasteur

1954

Royal Affairs in Versailles

as Louis XIV (older)

1949

Toâ

as Michel Desnoyers

1918

Un roman d’amour et d’aventures

as Jean et Jacques Sarrazin

Production

1936

1935

Good Luck

as Director

1951

Poison

as Director

1936

1948

1957

1939

Nine Bachelors

as Director

1951

Deburau

as Director

1950

1953

1915

1937

1937

1944

La Malibran

as Director

2001

1937

1949

2007

1952

1936

1936

Let's Make a Dream

as Screenplay

1936

Let's Make a Dream

as Theatre Play

1936

1936

The New Testament

as Screenplay

1936

1936

The New Testament

as Theatre Play

1937

Désiré

as Director

1937

Désiré

as Writer

1938

Quadrille

as Director

1938

Quadrille

as Writer

1949

Two Doves

as Director

1949

Two Doves

as Screenplay

1949

Two Doves

as Adaptation

1949

Two Doves

as Dialogue

1956

1958

Life Together

as Writer

1941

Mlle. Desiree

as Director

1940

1943

My Last Mistress

as Director

1943

1996

Le Veilleur de nuit

as Theatre Play

1944

La Malibran

as Writer

1957

1938

1984

Nono

as Screenplay

2016

Une folie

as Writer

1970

Zwei ganze Tage

as Original Story

1935

Pasteur

as Director

1924

The Clairvoyant

as Theatre Play

1935

Good Luck

as Writer

1997

Quadrille

as Screenplay

1949

Toâ

as Director

1949

Toâ

as Screenplay

1960

1951

Poison

as Writer

1930

Sleeping Partners

as Theatre Play

1976

La jalousie

as Screenplay

1992

La Jalousie

as Author

2013

Quadrille

as Author

1931

Black and White

as Theatre Play

1939

1951

Deburau

as Writer

1955

Napoleon

as Writer

1955

Napoleon

as Director

1936

1935

Pasteur

as Writer

1931

Black and White

as Screenplay

1948

Paris 1900

as Consulting Producer

1997

The Comedian

as Theatre Play

1936

The Story of a Cheat

as Original Film Writer

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