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 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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Filmography
all 80
Movies 77
Writer 33
Director 11
self 5
TV Shows 3
Narrator 1
N'écoutez pas mesdames (2021)
Saint-Saëns, the Unfathomable (2021)
A Night at the Opera (2020)
Une folie (2016)
Quadrille (2013)
Un type dans le genre de Napoléon (2008)
Faisons un rêve (2007)
Mon père avait raison (2007)
Arletty, Lady Paname (2007)
A Crime in Paradise (2001)
Le Nouveau Testament (1999)
The Comedian (1997)
Quadrille (1997)
Le Veilleur de nuit (1996)
Mon père avait raison (1996)
Desire (1996)
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
Une folie (1995)
La Jalousie (1992)
Sarah (1988)
Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche (1985)
Nono (1984)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978)
Eifersucht (1978)
La jalousie (1976)
Das letzte Testament (1974)
La Pèlerine écossaise (1972)
Zwei ganze Tage (1970)
Vingt-neuf degrés à l'ombre (1969)
Ooh La La! (1968)
At Theatre Tonight (1966)
Nicht zuhören, meine Damen! (1962)
The Nabob Affair (1960)
Life Together (1958)
Three Make a Pair (1957)
Murderers and Thieves (1956)
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
Napoleon (1955)
Nicht zuhören, meine Damen! (1954)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
The Virtuous Scoundrel (1953)
I Was It Three Times (1952)
Poison (1951)
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny (1951)
Deburau (1951)
Tu m'as sauvé la vie (1950)
The Treasure of Cantenac (1950)
Rendezvous in July (1949)
Toâ (1949)
Two Doves (1949)
The Devil Who Limped (1948)
The Private Life of an Actor (1948)
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain (1944)
La Malibran (1944)
My Last Mistress (1943)
Mlle. Desiree (1941)
Lucky Partners (1940)
Nine Bachelors (1939)
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
L'Accroche-cœur (1938)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Quadrille (1938)
Désiré (1937)
The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
Le Mot de Cambronne (1937)
Let's Make a Dream (1936)
My Father Was Right (1936)
The Story of a Cheat (1936)
The New Testament (1936)
Bonne chance (1935)
Pasteur (1935)
Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs (1934)
Black and White (1931)
Sleeping Partners (1930)
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette (1926)
The Clairvoyant (1924)
The Lover of Camille (1924)
Oscar rencontre mademoiselle Manageot (1918)
Those of Our Land (1915)
Edgar Degas Filmed Walking Down a Paris Street (1915)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1885-02-20
Deathday1957-07-24 (72 years old)
Birth NameAlexandre-Georges-Pierre Guitry
Birth PlaceSaint Petersburg, Russia
Height
RelationshipsCharlotte Lysès (1907-08-14 - 1918-07-17), Geneviève Guitry (1939-07-04 - 1949-07-25), Yvonne Printemps (1919-04-10 - 1934-11-07), Jacqueline Delubac (1935-02-21 - 1939-04-05), Lana Marconi (1949-11-25 - 1957-07-24)
FatherLucien Guitry
MotherRenée Delmas
SiblingsJean Guitry
RelativesRené de Pont-Jest
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsAlexandre Guitry, Alexandre Georges-Pierre Guitry, 사샤 기트리, 사차 거이트리
Awardsofficier de l’Instruction publique, Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Officer of the Order of Leopold, Commander of the Order of Saint-Charles, Commander of the order of Nichan Iftikhar, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour
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