Alice Guy-Blaché
female
Born on July 01, 1873 (152 years old)
Passed Away on March 24, 1968
From Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
Known for Directing
Biography
Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) is generally considered to be the world's first female director. French-born Alice Guy entered the film business as a secretary at Gaumont-Paris in 1896. The next year Gaumont changed from manufacturing cameras to producing movies, and Guy became one of its first film directors. She impressed the company so much with the output (she averaged two two-reelers a week) and quality of her productions that by 1905 she was made the company's production director, supervising the company's other directors. In 1907 she married Herbert Blaché, an Englishman who ran the company's British and German offices. The pair soon went to the U.S. to set up the company's operations there. In 1910 she set up her own production company in New York and built a studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After a period of critical and financial success, her company's fortunes declined and she eventually shut down the studio. Although she secured work directing films for several major Hollywood studios, she returned to France in 1922 after her divorce from Blache. She was never able to secure any directorial jobs there, and never made a film again. In 1964 she returned to the U.S. and lived in Mahwah, New Jersey - not far from where her original studios were - with her daughters, where she died in 1968.
Cast Credits
- 2021
- 2018
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- 1995
- 1956
- 1912
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- 1905
- 1896
- 1895
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- 2007
- 2005
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- 1916
- 1915
- 1914
- 1913
Matrimony's Speed Limit
as
Director
1913
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
as
Director
1913
A House Divided
as
Director
1913
The Pit and the Pendulum
as
Director
1913
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Napoleon
as
Director
1913
A Severe Test
as
Director
1913
A House Divided
as
Producer
1913
The Coming of Sunbeam
as
Director
1913
The Roads That Lead Home
as
Producer
1913
The Roads That Lead Home
as
Director
1913
Beasts of the Jungle
as
Writer
1913
Dick Whittington and His Cat
as
Director
1913
Dick Whittington and His Cat
as
Writer
1913
Matrimony's Speed Limit
as
Producer
1913
The Thief
as
Director
1913
Cousins of Sherlocko
as
Director
1913
Officer Henderson
as
Director
1913
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Kelly from the Emerald Isle
as
Writer
1913
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The Rogues of Paris
as
Director
1913
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The Rogues of Paris
as
Producer
1913
Beasts of the Jungle
as
Producer
1913
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Burstup Homes
as
Director
1913
- 1912
Making an American Citizen
as
Producer
1912
The Hater of Women
as
Director
1912
Playing Trumps
as
Director
1912
Falling Leaves
as
Director
1912
Canned Harmony
as
Director
1912
Making an American Citizen
as
Director
1912
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
as
Director
1912
In the Year 2000
as
Director
1912
Algie, the Miner
as
Producer
1912
Two Little Rangers
as
Director
1912
Falling Leaves
as
Writer
1912
A Fool and His Money
as
Producer
1912
A Fool and His Money
as
Director
1912
Algie, the Miner
as
Director
1912
Canned Harmony
as
Producer
1912
The Detective's Dog
as
Director
1912
His Double
as
Director
1912
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
as
Producer
1912
The High Cost of Living
as
Director
1912
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The New Love And The Old
as
Director
1912
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The New Love And The Old
as
Producer
1912
God Disposes
as
Director
1912
Fra Diavolo
as
Writer
1912
Fra Diavolo
as
Director
1912
Making an American Citizen
as
Writer
1912
For Love of the Flag
as
Director
1912
A Terrible Lesson
as
Director
1912
Frozen on Love's Trail
as
Director
1912
A Comedy of Errors
as
Director
1912
Parson Sue
as
Director
1912
A Man's a Man
as
Director
1912
The Strike
as
Director
1912
The Sewer
as
Producer
1912
Broken Oaths
as
Director
1912
Dublin Dan
as
Producer
1912
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The Face at the Window
as
Director
1912
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Mignon
as
Director
1912
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Mrs. Cranston's Jewels
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Director
1912
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Hubby Does the Washing
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Director
1912
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Hubby Does the Washing
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Producer
1912
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Blighted Lives
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Director
1912
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Child of the Tenements
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Director
1912
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The Reformation of Mary
as
Director
1912
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The Reformation of Mary
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Producer
1912
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The Wooing of Alice
as
Director
1912
Souls in the Shadow
as
Director
1912
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Phantom Paradise
as
Director
1912
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Treasures on the Wing
as
Director
1912
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The Love of the Flag
as
Director
1912
A Comedy of Errors
as
Producer
1912
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Hearts Unknown
as
Director
1912
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The Woman Behind the Man
as
Director
1912
The Fight in the Dark
as
Director
1912
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Someone's Luck Society
as
Director
1912
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The Equine Spy
as
Producer
1912
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A Solax Celebration
as
Director
1912
- 1911
When Marian was Married
as
Director
1911
Greater Love Hath No Man
as
Director
1911
Across the Mexican Line
as
Director
1911
Cupid and the Comet
as
Director
1911
Tramp Strategy
as
Director
1911
His Mother's Hymn
as
Director
1911
Mixed Pets
as
Director
1911
Greater Love Hath No Man
as
Writer
1911
Starting Something
as
Director
1911
Cupid and the Comet
as
Producer
1911
Greater Love Hath No Man
as
Executive Producer
1911
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The Violin Maker of Nuremberg
as
Director
1911
Outwitted by Horse and Lariat
as
Director
1911
- 1910
- 1907
The Race for the Sausage
as
Director
1907
The Banknote
as
Director
1907
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
as
Director
1907
The Glue
as
Director
1907
The Fur Hat
as
Director
1907
The Cleaning Man
as
Director
1907
The Rolling Bed
as
Director
1907
The Irresistible Piano
as
Director
1907
On the Barricade
as
Director
1907
- 1906
A Sticky Woman
as
Director
1906
Madame's Cravings
as
Director
1906
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
as
Director
1906
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The Hierarchies of Love
as
Director
1906
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An Obstacle Course
as
Director
1906
Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
as
Director
1906
The Stepmother
as
Director
1906
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Ocean Studies
as
Director
1906
The Game-Keeper's Son
as
Director
1906
Man Monkey
as
Director
1906
The Parish Priest's Christmas
as
Director
1906
The Consequences of Feminism
as
Director
1906
The Drunken Mattress
as
Director
1906
The Mouse in the Crinoline
as
Director
1906
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
as
Writer
1906
A Sticky Woman
as
Writer
1906
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L'Honneur du Corse
as
Director
1906
The Consequences of Feminism
as
Writer
1906
Madame's Cravings
as
Writer
1906
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Les Druides
as
Director
1906
A Priest's Conscience
as
Director
1906
A Priest's Conscience
as
Writer
1906
A Story Well Spun
as
Director
1906
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Mireille
as
Director
1906
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Course de taureaux
as
Director
1906
The Dirigible 'Homeland'
as
Director
1906
- 1905
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"
as
Director
1905
Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque
as
Director
1905
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
as
Director
1905
Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster
as
Director
1905
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
as
Director
1905
Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"
as
Director
1905
Saharet Performs the Bolero
as
Director
1905
Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
as
Director
1905
The Statue
as
Director
1905
The Bricklayers
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Director
1905
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Spain
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Director
1905
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The Magician's Alms
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Director
1905
Clown, Dog and Balloon
as
Director
1905
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Faust
as
Director
1905
The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
as
Director
1905
Esmeralda
as
Director
1905
Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque
as
Director
1905
In a Bamboo Hut
as
Director
1905
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The Sock
as
Director
1905
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The Fairy of Spring
as
Director
1905
Tango
as
Director
1905
- 1904
- 1902
Eccentric Dance
as
Director
1902
Midwife to the Upper Class
as
Director
1902
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
as
Director
1902
An Untimely Intrusion
as
Director
1902
Midwife to the Upper Class
as
Producer
1902
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Danse fantaisiste
as
Director
1902
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La Gigue
as
Director
1902
Serpentine Dance
as
Director
1902
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Les malabares: Les acrobats
as
Director
1902
- 1900
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
as
Director
1900
The Landlady
as
Director
1900
At the Photographer's
as
Director
1900
Avenue de l'Opéra
as
Director
1900
Pierrette's Escapades
as
Director
1900
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
as
Director
1900
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
as
Director
1900
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
as
Director
1900
At the Floral Ball
as
Director
1900
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Danse du papillon
as
Director
1900
Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)
as
Director
1900
Little Tich and His Funny Feet
as
Director
1900
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Coucher d'une Parisienne
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Scenario Writer
1900
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Coucher d'une Parisienne
as
Director
1900
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
as
Writer
1900
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Gavotte directoire
as
Director
1900
- 1899
- 1903
- 1901
- 1898
- 1897
- 1896
