Directing · b. 1873 · Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

Alice Guy-Blaché

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 Englishma...

Directed
Fantastic Flowers 2025 Butterfly Dances 2007 Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913 2005 Tarnished Reputations 1920 The Great Adventure 1918 The Adventurer 1917 House of Cards 1917 The Empress 1917 Behind the Mask 1917 When You and I Were Young 1917 The Ocean Waif 1916 What Will People Say? 1916 The Scarlet Woman 1916 My Madonna 1915 Heart of a Painted Woman 1915 The Vampire 1915 The Song of the Wage Slave 1915 The Tigress 1914 The Woman of Mystery 1914 The Monster and the Girl 1914 The Lure 1914 The Dream Woman 1914 Matrimony's Speed Limit 1913 Burstup Homes' Murder Case 1913 A House Divided 1913 The Pit and the Pendulum 1913 Napoleon 1913 A Severe Test 1913 The Coming of Sunbeam 1913 The Roads That Lead Home 1913 Dick Whittington and His Cat 1913 The Thief 1913 Officer Henderson 1913 Cousins of Sherlocko 1913 The Rogues of Paris 1913 Burstup Homes 1913 Playing Trumps 1912 The Hater of Women 1912 Falling Leaves 1912 Canned Harmony 1912 Making an American Citizen 1912 The Girl in the Arm-Chair 1912 In the Year 2000 1912 Two Little Rangers 1912 A Fool and His Money 1912 Algie, the Miner 1912 The Detective's Dog 1912 His Double 1912 The High Cost of Living 1912 The New Love And The Old 1912 God Disposes 1912 Fra Diavolo 1912 For Love of the Flag 1912 A Terrible Lesson 1912 Frozen on Love's Trail 1912 A Comedy of Errors 1912 Parson Sue 1912 A Man's a Man 1912 The Strike 1912 Broken Oaths 1912 The Face at the Window 1912 Mignon 1912 Mrs. Cranston's Jewels 1912 Hubby Does the Washing 1912 Blighted Lives 1912 Child of the Tenements 1912 The Reformation of Mary 1912 The Wooing of Alice 1912 Souls in the Shadow 1912 Phantom Paradise 1912 Treasures on the Wing 1912 The Love of the Flag 1912 Hearts Unknown 1912 The Woman Behind the Man 1912 The Fight in the Dark 1912 Someone's Luck Society 1912 A Solax Celebration 1912 When Marian was Married 1911 Greater Love Hath No Man 1911 Cupid and the Comet 1911 Across the Mexican Line 1911 Tramp Strategy 1911 His Mother's Hymn 1911 Mixed Pets 1911 Starting Something 1911 The Violin Maker of Nuremberg 1911 Outwitted by Horse and Lariat 1911 From the Valley of Shadows 1911 What Is a Flag? 1909 The Race for the Sausage 1907 The Banknote 1907 Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris 1907 The Glue 1907 The Rolling Bed 1907 The Irresistible Piano 1907 On the Barricade 1907 The Fur Hat 1907 The Cleaning Man 1907 The Consequences of Feminism 1906 The Game-Keeper's Son 1906 The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ 1906 The Drunken Mattress 1906 Madame's Cravings 1906 The Stepmother 1906 Ocean Studies 1906 Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea" 1906 The Mouse in the Crinoline 1906 L'Honneur du Corse 1906 Les Druides 1906 A Priest's Conscience 1906 Mireille 1906 Course de taureaux 1906 The Dirigible 'Homeland' 1906 The Hierarchies of Love 1906 A Sticky Woman 1906 An Obstacle Course 1906 A Story Well Spun 1906 The Parish Priest's Christmas 1906 Man Monkey 1906 Saharet Performs the Bolero 1905 Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu 1905 Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka" 1905 Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque 1905 Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs" 1905 Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee" 1905 Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions" 1905 The Magician's Alms 1905 Spain 1905 The Statue 1905 The Bricklayers 1905 Clown, Dog and Balloon 1905 Faust 1905 The Malagueña and the Bullfighter 1905 Esmeralda 1905 In a Bamboo Hut 1905 The Sock 1905 The Fairy of Spring 1905 Tango 1905 The First Cigarette 1904 The Crime on Temple Street 1904 Token of Love 1904 How Monsieur Takes His Bath 1903 Faust and Mephistopheles 1903 Eccentric Dance 1902 Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs 1902 Midwife to the Upper Class 1902 Danse fantaisiste 1902 La Gigue 1902 Serpentine Dance 1902 Les malabares: Les acrobats 1902 An Untimely Intrusion 1902 Danse basque 1901 Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance 1900 At the Photographer's 1900 Pierrette's Escapades 1900 Turn-of-the-Century Surgery 1900 The Landlady 1900 The Cabbage-Patch Fairy 1900 Avenue de l'Opéra 1900 At the Floral Ball 1900 Danse du papillon 1900 Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage) 1900 Coucher d'une Parisienne 1900 Gavotte directoire 1900 Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder 1900 Wonderful Absinthe 1899 At the Club 1899 Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine 1899 Disappearing Act 1898 At the Hypnotist's 1898 The Burglars 1898 The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man 1898 Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak 1898 Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter 1897 Bathing in a Stream 1897 Danse Fleur de Lotus 1897 Ballet Libella 1897 The Fisherman at the Stream 1897 The Cabbage-Patch Fairy 1896
Cinematography
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy 1896
Acting
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2021 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché Self (archive footage) 2018 The Women Who Run Hollywood Self (archive footage) 2016 The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché Self (archive footage) 1995 Qui est Alice Guy? Self 1976 Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière Herself 1895
Other Credits
Imitation of Waves - Guy's Visions Cinematography 2025 Barbara Frietchie Producer 1915 Kelly from the Emerald Isle Writer 1913 Beasts of the Jungle Writer 1913 Dublin Dan Producer 1912 The Equine Spy Producer 1912 The Sewer Producer 1912 Bonsoir Co-Director 1910
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