Sacha Guitry

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    Alexandre Guitry, Alexandre Georges-Pierre Guitry, 사샤 기트리, 사차 거이트리

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1885-02-20
  • event Death Date 1957-07-24
  • school Known for: Directing
  • star Popularity: 1.6
  • info Birth Place Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Sacha Guitry

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My Father Was Right

1936-11-27

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Good Luck

1935-09-20

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Poison

1951-11-30

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The Story of a Cheat

1936-10-02

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The Story of a Cheat

1936-10-02

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The Devil Who Limped

1948-07-11

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Three Make a Pair

1957-04-10

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Nine Bachelors

1939-09-29

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Royal Affairs in Versailles

1954-02-10

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Deburau

1951-06-29

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Tu m'as sauvé la vie

1950-09-20

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The Virtuous Scoundrel

1953-02-18

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Those of Our Land

1915-11-22

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If Paris Were Told to Us

1956-01-27

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Le Mot de Cambronne

1937-03-26

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Le Mot de Cambronne

1937-03-26

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La Malibran

1944-05-03

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The Private Life of an Actor

1948-02-26

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The Treasure of Cantenac

1950-09-06

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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

1938-12-02

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A Crime in Paradise

2001-02-28

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The Pearls of the Crown

1937-05-12

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The Pearls of the Crown

1937-05-12

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Rendezvous in July

1949-12-06

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Faisons un rêve

2007-11-03

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I Was It Three Times

1952-10-31

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Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny

1951-09-14

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Let's Make a Dream

1936-12-31

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Let's Make a Dream

1936-12-31

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Let's Make a Dream

1936-12-31

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The New Testament

1936-02-14

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The New Testament

1936-02-14

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The New Testament

1936-02-14

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The New Testament

1936-02-14

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Désiré

1937-12-03

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Désiré

1937-12-03

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Quadrille

1938-01-29

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Quadrille

1938-01-29

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Two Doves

1949-07-27

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Two Doves

1949-07-27

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Two Doves

1949-07-27

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Two Doves

1949-07-27

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Murderers and Thieves

1956-10-24

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Life Together

1958-09-24

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Mlle. Desiree

1941-07-03

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I Was It Three Times

1952-10-31

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Lucky Partners

1940-08-02

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My Last Mistress

1943-11-24

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My Last Mistress

1943-11-24

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Le Veilleur de nuit

1996-12-27

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La Malibran

1944-05-03

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Mon père avait raison

1996-11-15

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Mon père avait raison

2007-09-07

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Three Make a Pair

1957-04-10

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L'Accroche-cœur

1938-08-31

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Nono

1984-10-06

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Une folie

2016-08-27

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Zwei ganze Tage

1970-12-27

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Pasteur

1935-09-20

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N'écoutez pas mesdames

2021-12-19

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The Clairvoyant

1924-10-31

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Royal Affairs in Versailles

1954-02-10

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Good Luck

1935-09-20

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Royal Affairs in Versailles

1954-02-10

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Quadrille

1997-04-23

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Toâ

1949-10-27

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Toâ

1949-10-27

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The Nabob Affair

1960-11-16

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Poison

1951-11-30

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Sleeping Partners

1930-03-18

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La jalousie

1976-04-21

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Edgar Degas Filmed Walking Down a Paris Street

1915-07-08

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La Jalousie

1992-09-08

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La Pèlerine écossaise

1972-06-11

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Quadrille

2013-06-18

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Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche

1985-02-16

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The Devil Who Limped

1948-07-11

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Vingt-neuf degrés à l'ombre

1969-10-12

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From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain

1944-05-04

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Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs

1934-01-01

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Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs

1934-01-01

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Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs

1934-01-01

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Oscar rencontre mademoiselle Manageot

1918-01-01

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Murderers and Thieves

1956-10-24

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Black and White

1931-03-27

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The Lover of Camille

1924-09-15

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Nine Bachelors

1939-09-29

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Le Nouveau Testament

1999-12-14

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Deburau

1951-06-29

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The Virtuous Scoundrel

1953-02-18

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Napoleon

1955-03-25

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Napoleon

1955-03-25

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My Father Was Right

1936-11-27

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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

1938-12-02

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If Paris Were Told to Us

1956-01-27

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Un roman d’amour et d’aventures

1918-03-23

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Une petite main qui se place

1922-01-01

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Pasteur

1935-09-20

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Black and White

1931-03-27

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Paris Nineteen Hundred

1948-02-25

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At Theatre Tonight

1966-07-21

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Ooh La La!

1968-04-06

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At Theatre Tonight

1966-07-21