ACTOR

Sacha Guitry

1885 - 1957

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Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (French: [gitʁi]; 21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sacha Guitry has received more than 278,660 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Sacha Guitry is the 776th most popular actor (up from 943rd in 2019), the 425th most popular biography from Russia (up from 491st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sacha Guitry ranks 776 out of 13,578Before him are Ida Rubinstein, Dirk Benedict, Fernanda Montenegro, Francisco Rabal, Jeroen Krabbé, and Katharina Schratt. After him are Rodolfo Gucci, Peter Weller, Sylva Koscina, Maud Adams, Adrien Brody, and David Schwimmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Sacha Guitry ranks 52Before him are Clementine Churchill, Christian Wirth, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Velimir Khlebnikov, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, and Otto Klemperer. After him are Per Albin Hansson, Franz Böhme, Theda Bara, André Lhote, Seishirō Itagaki, and G. W. Pabst. Among people deceased in 1957, Sacha Guitry ranks 48Before him are Moša Pijade, Eliot Ness, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Leo Perutz, Carl Clauberg, and Aga Khan III. After him are Hermann Buhl, Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria, Johnny Torrio, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Henry Norris Russell, and James Brendan Connolly.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sacha Guitry ranks 425 out of 3,761Before him are Mikhail Vrubel (1856), Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154), Lila Kedrova (1918), Catharina of Württemberg (1783), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), and Pyotr Krasnov (1869). After him are Şehsuvar Sultan (1682), Igor Smirnov (1941), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Daniil Kharms (1905), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), and Ivan Ilyin (1883).

Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Sacha Guitry ranks 5Before him are Yul Brynner (1920), Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), Michael Chekhov (1891), and Lila Kedrova (1918). After him are Yuri Nikulin (1921), Olga Knipper (1868), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Yury Solomin (1935), Lyubov Orlova (1902), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), and Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925).

Television and Movie Roles

Poison
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
The Story of a Cheat
le tricheur
Life story of a charming scoundrel, with little dialogue other than the star/director's witty narration. As a boy, only he survives a family tragedy when he's deprived of supper (poisonous mushrooms!) for stealing...concluding that dishonesty pays. Through years of dabbling in crime and amusing adventures, two women appear and reappear in his life, a dazzling blonde jewel thief and a stunning brunette gambler. Finally, he meets the mysterious Charbonnier who had saved his life in World War I, leading to the surprising next phase in his career...
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Louis XIV (plus âgé)
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.