1873 - 1968
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (née Guy; French pronunciation: [alis gi blɑʃe] ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice Guy-Blaché has received more than 527,452 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alice Guy-Blaché is the 182nd most popular film director (up from 201st in 2019), the 1,162nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,303rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Film Director.
Alice Guy-Blaché is most famous for inventing and directing the world's first narrative film.
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Among film directors, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 182 out of 1,581. Before her are Peter Weir, Don Siegel, G. W. Pabst, Guy Ritchie, Dino Risi, and Danny Boyle. After her are Francesco Rosi, Giuseppe Tornatore, James Ivory, Michael Cacoyannis, Ivan Reitman, and Vincente Minnelli.
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 176
1912 - 1991
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 177
1885 - 1967
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 178
1968 - Present
HPI: 61.14
Rank: 179
1916 - 2008
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 180
1956 - Present
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 181
1873 - 1968
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 182
1922 - 2015
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 183
1956 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 184
1928 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 185
1922 - 2011
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 186
1946 - 2022
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 187
1903 - 1986
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 188
Among people born in 1873, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 30. Before her are Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Max Reinhardt, Christian Rakovsky, Kyösti Kallio, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin. After her are Ivanoe Bonomi, Alexander Bogdanov, Ma Barker, Constantin Carathéodory, Lee de Forest, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi. Among people deceased in 1968, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 35. Before her are Giovanni Messe, Alexandre Kojève, Ivan Ribar, Lucio Fontana, Vasily Sokolovsky, and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. After her are Romano Guardini, Josef Harpe, Vittorio Pozzo, Fritz Bauer, Charles Chaplin Jr., and Tsuguharu Foujita.
1873 - 1945
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 24
1873 - 1967
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 25
1873 - 1943
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 26
1873 - 1941
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 27
1873 - 1940
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 28
1873 - 1964
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 29
1873 - 1968
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 30
1873 - 1951
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 31
1873 - 1928
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 32
1873 - 1935
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 33
1873 - 1950
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 34
1873 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 35
1873 - 1933
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 36
1883 - 1968
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 29
1902 - 1968
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 30
1881 - 1968
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 31
1899 - 1968
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 32
1897 - 1968
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 33
1885 - 1968
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 34
1873 - 1968
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 35
1885 - 1968
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 36
1887 - 1968
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 37
1886 - 1968
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 38
1903 - 1968
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 39
1925 - 1968
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 40
1886 - 1968
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 41
Among people born in France, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 1,162 out of 6,011. Before her are André-Hercule de Fleury (1653), Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Gabriel Lamé (1795), Élisée Reclus (1830), and Victoire of France (1733). After her are Pepin II of Aquitaine (823), Jacques I, Prince of Monaco (1689), Albert Roussel (1869), Flora Tristan (1803), Suzanne Lenglen (1899), and Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737).
1653 - 1743
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 1,156
1197 - 1249
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 1,157
1932 - 2007
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 1,158
1795 - 1870
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 1,159
1830 - 1905
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 1,160
1733 - 1799
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 1,161
1873 - 1968
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 1,162
823 - 864
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 1,163
1689 - 1751
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 1,164
1869 - 1937
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 1,165
1803 - 1844
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 1,166
1899 - 1938
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 1,167
1737 - 1813
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 1,168
Among film directors born in France, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 27. Before her are Abel Gance (1889), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Jean Vigo (1905), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), Jacques Rivette (1928), and Claude Lanzmann (1925). After her are Bertrand Tavernier (1941), Frank Darabont (1959), Chris Marker (1921), Julien Duvivier (1896), Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), and Patrice Chéreau (1944).
1889 - 1981
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 21
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 22
1905 - 1934
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 23
1907 - 1977
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 24
1928 - 2016
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 25
1925 - 2018
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 26
1873 - 1968
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 27
1941 - 2021
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 28
1959 - Present
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 29
1921 - 2012
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 30
1896 - 1967
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 31
1946 - 2022
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 32
1944 - 2013
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 33