The son of Parisian stage star Lucien Guitry, Sacha Guitry was born and raised in pre-Czarist Russia. A restless youth, Guitry attended some dozen schools before finally completing his education at 17. That same year, Guitry wrote the first of his 120 plays, most of them vehicles for his own considerable performing skills. In 1915, Guitry wrote, directed and photographed an obscure silent-movie short subject, Ceux de chez Nous; three years later, he acted before the cameras for the first time. Throughout the 1920s, Guitry resisted films, feeling that they could not do full justice to his gift for dialogue and characterization. Though he would act in and write a brace of early talkies, he did not direct his first feature, Bonne chance, until 1935. Guitry was so much the renaissance man that one is tempted to label him the French Orson Welles; in truth, he was more the French Preston Sturges, exhibiting a firmer grasp of dialogue than a flair for visuals. Remaining in Paris during the occupation, Guitry was forbidden by the Nazis to act on stage; ironically, once the Germans were booted from Paris, Guitry spent two months in prison on a collaboration charge. Guitry devoted his last decade to turning out some rather ponderous historical spectacles, few of which exhibited the wit or sophistication of his best plays. Sacha Guitry was married four times; each of his wives was an actress, but only wife #2, Yvonne Printemps, became a star in her own right.
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Le nouveau testament
Play Author |
2003 | |||
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Quadrille
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1997 | |||
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Beaumarchais L'Insolent
Play Author |
1996 | |||
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Désiré
Play Author |
1996 | |||
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La Vie a Deux
Screenwriter |
1958 | |||
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Assassins et Voleurs
Director, Screenwriter |
1957 | |||
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Les Trois Font la Paire
Director, Screenwriter |
1957 | |||
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Si Paris Nous Etait Conté
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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Napoléon
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Si Versailles M'Etait Conté
Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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Je L'ai Ete Trois Fois
Actor, Director |
1952 | |||
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La Vie d'un Honnete Homme
Director |
1952 | |||
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La Poison
Director, Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Deburau
Actor, Director |
1950 | |||
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Le Tresor De Cantenac
Actor, Director |
1950 | |||
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Tu M'as Sauve La Vie
Actor, Director |
1950 | |||
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Aux Deux Colombes
Actor, Director |
1949 | |||
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Toa
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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Le Diable Boiteux
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1948 | |||
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Le Comedien
Actor, Director |
1947 | |||
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Donne Moi Tes Yeux
Actor, Director |
1943 | |||
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La Malibran
Actor, Director |
1943 | |||
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Le Destin Fabuleux De Desiree Clary
Actor, Director |
1941 | |||
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Lucky Partners
Screen Story |
1940 | |||
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Ils Etaient Neuf Celibataires
Actor, Director |
1939 | |||
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Actor |
1938 | |||
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Quadrille
Actor, Director |
1938 | |||
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Remontons les Champs-Elysees
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1938 | |||
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Desire
Actor, Director |
1937 | |||
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Faisons un Reve
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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Les Perles De La Couronne
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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Le Mot de Cambronne
Director |
1936 | |||
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Le Nouveau Testament
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Le Roman d'un Tricheur
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Mon Père Avait Raison
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Pasteur
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Bonne Chance
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Le Blanc et le Noir
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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Sleeping Partners
Play Author |
1930 | |||
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Lover of Camille
Play Author |
1924 | |||
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Ceux de chez nous
Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter |
1915 |