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.

Фільмографія

• 2021N'écoutez pas mesdames — Writer
• 2016Une folie — Writer
• 2013Quadrille — Author
• 2008Un type dans le genre de Napoléon — Theatre Play
• 2007Faisons un rêve — Author
• 2007Mon père avait raison — Writer
• 2001A Crime in Paradise — Writer
• 1999Le Nouveau Testament — Author
• 1997Quadrille — Screenplay
• 1997The Comedian — Theatre Play
• 1996Le Veilleur de nuit — Theatre Play
• 1996Mon père avait raison — Writer
• 1992La Jalousie — Author
• 1985Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche — Author
• 1984Nono — Screenplay
• 1976La Jalousie — Screenplay
• 1974L'Amour masqué — Writer
• 1972La Pèlerine écossaise — Author
• 1970Zwei ganze Tage — Original Story
• 1969Vingt-neuf degrés à l'ombre — Songs
• Ooh La La! — Theatre Play
• At Theatre Tonight — Theatre Play, Author
• 1960The Nabob Affair — Writer
• 1958Life Together — Writer
• 1957Three Make a Pair — Director, Writer
• 1956If Paris Were Told to Us — le narrateur et Louis XI, Director, Story
• 1956Murderers and Thieves — Director, Writer
• 1955Napoleon — Talleyrand, Writer, Director
• 1953Royal Affairs in Versailles — Louis XIV (older), Director, Writer, Producer
• 1953The Virtuous Scoundrel — Self in the prologue / Narrator (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1952I Was It Three Times — Jean Renneval, Director, Writer
• 1951Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny — Writer
• 1951Deburau — Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Director, Writer
• 1951Poison — Director, Writer
• 1950The Treasure of Cantenac — Baron of Cantenac, Director
• 1950Tu m'as sauvé la vie — Le baron de Saint-Rambert, Director
• 1949Rendezvous in July — Story
• 1949Toâ — Michel Desnoyers, Director, Screenplay
• 1949Two Doves — Maître Jean-Pierre Walter, Director, Screenplay, Adaptation, Dialogue
• 1948Paris 1900 — Consulting Producer
• 1948The Devil Who Limped — Talleyrand, Director, Writer
• 1948The Private Life of an Actor — Lucien Guitry et Sacha Guitry, Director
• 1944From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain — Narrator (voice), Director
• 1944La Malibran — Eugène Malibran, Director, Writer
• 1943My Last Mistress — François, Director, Writer
• 1942Mlle. Desiree — Napoléon 1er, Director
• 1940Lucky Partners — Story
• 1939Nine Bachelors — Jean Lécuyer, Director, Writer
• 1938Bluebeard's 8th Wife — Man Leaving Hotel in France (uncredited)
• 1938L'Accroche-cœur — Writer
• 1938Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées — Le Professeur, Louis XV, Ludovic, Jean-Louis et Napoléon III, Director, Writer
• 1938Quadrille — Philippe de Morannes, journaliste, Director, Writer
• 1937Désiré — Désiré, le valet de chambre, Director, Writer
• 1937Le Mot de Cambronne — Le général Pierre Cambronne, Director, Writer
• 1937The Pearls of the Crown — Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III, Director, Screenplay
• 1936Let's Make a Dream — L'Amant, Director, Screenplay, Theatre Play
• 1936My Father Was Right — Charles Bellanger, Director, Writer
• 1936The New Testament — Le Docteur Marcelin, Director, Screenplay, Dialogue, Theatre Play
• 1936The Story of a Cheat — le tricheur, Director, Writer
• 1935Good Luck — Claude, Director, Writer
• 1935Pasteur — Louis Pasteur, Director, Writer
• 1934Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs — Self, Director, Screenplay, Dialogue
• 1931Black and White — Theatre Play, Screenplay
• 1930Sleeping Partners — Theatre Play
• 1926Camille: The Fate of a Coquette — Mancha y Zaragosa
• 1924The Clairvoyant — Theatre Play
• 1924The Lover of Camille — Novel
• 1922Une petite main qui se place — Director
• 1918Oscar rencontre mademoiselle Manageot — Director
• 1918Un roman d’amour et d’aventures — Jean et Jacques Sarrazin, Screenplay
• 1915Those of Our Land — Director

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 2020A Night at the Opera — Self (archive footage)
• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)