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 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.
| 2007 | Butterfly Dances - Director |
| 2005 | Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913 - Director |
| 1918 | The Great Adventure - Director |
| 1917 | House of Cards - Director |
| 1917 | House of Cards - Writer |
| 1917 | The Empress - Director |
| 1917 | The Empress - Writer |
| 1917 | The Adventurer - Director |
| 1916 | The Ocean Waif - Director |
| 1916 | What Will People Say? - Director |
| 1915 | My Madonna - Director |
| 1915 | My Madonna - Writer |
| 1915 | The Song of the Wage Slave - Director |
| 1915 | The Vampire - Director |
| 1915 | The Vampire - Producer |
| 1915 | Heart of a Painted Woman - Director |
| 1914 | The Tigress - Director |
| 1914 | The Lure - Director |
| 1914 | The Lure - Writer |
| 1914 | The Woman of Mystery - Director |
| 1914 | The Monster and the Girl - Director |
| 1914 | The Dream Woman - Director |
| 1914 | The Dream Woman - Screenplay |
| 1914 | Mr. Bruce Wins at Cards - Director |
| 1913 | The Pit and the Pendulum - Director |
| 1913 | Matrimony's Speed Limit - Director |
| 1913 | Matrimony's Speed Limit - Producer |
| 1913 | A House Divided - Director |
| 1913 | A House Divided - Producer |
| 1913 | A Severe Test - Director |
| 1913 | Dick Whittington and His Cat - Director |
| 1913 | Dick Whittington and His Cat - Writer |
| 1913 | Burstup Homes' Murder Case - Director |
| 1913 | Officer Henderson - Director |
| 1913 | Napoleon - Director |
| 1913 | The Thief - Director |
| 1913 | The Coming of Sunbeam - Director |
| 1913 | Cousins of Sherlocko - Director |
| 1913 | The Roads That Lead Home - Director |
| 1913 | The Roads That Lead Home - Producer |
| 1913 | Beasts of the Jungle - Writer |
| 1912 | The Girl in the Arm-Chair - Director |
| 1912 | The Girl in the Arm-Chair - Producer |
| 1912 | The Hater of Women - Director |
| 1912 | A Comedy of Errors - Director |
| 1912 | The New Love And The Old - Director |
| 1912 | The New Love And The Old - Producer |
| 1912 | Making an American Citizen - Director |
| 1912 | Making an American Citizen - Producer |
| 1912 | Making an American Citizen - Writer |
| 1912 | The High Cost of Living - Director |
| 1912 | Canned Harmony - Director |
| 1912 | Canned Harmony - Producer |
| 1912 | The Detective's Dog - Director |
| 1912 | Playing Trumps - Director |
| 1912 | His Double - Director |
| 1912 | The Strike - Director |
| 1912 | Two Little Rangers - Director |
| 1912 | Broken Oath - Director |
| 1912 | For Love of the Flag - Director |
| 1912 | Fra Diavolo - Director |
| 1912 | Fra Diavolo - Writer |
| 1912 | In the Year 2000 - Director |
| 1912 | The Sewer - Producer |
| 1912 | Falling Leaves - Director |
| 1912 | Falling Leaves - Writer |
| 1912 | Algie, the Miner - Director |
| 1912 | Algie, the Miner - Producer |
| 1912 | God Disposes - Director |
| 1912 | A Terrible Lesson - Director |
| 1912 | Frozen on Love's Trail - Director |
| 1912 | A Man's a Man - Director |
| 1912 | Parson Sue - Director |
| 1912 | A Fool and His Money - Director |
| 1912 | A Fool and His Money - Producer |
| 1911 | His Mother's Hymn - Director |
| 1911 | Greater Love Hath No Man - Director |
| 1911 | Greater Love Hath No Man - Writer |
| 1911 | Cupid and the Comet - Director |
| 1911 | Cupid and the Comet - Producer |
| 1911 | Across the Mexican Line - Director |
| 1911 | Tramp Strategy - Director |
| 1911 | Mixed Pets - Director |
| 1911 | Starting Something - Director |
| 1911 | When Marian was Married - Director |
| 1910 | The Standing Cock - Director |
| 1909 | Ce que c'est qu'un drapeau - Director |
| 1907 | Le ballon dirigeable 'Le patrie' - Director |
| 1907 | La glu - Director |
| 1907 | Le lit à roulettes - Director |
| 1907 | Une héroïne de quatre ans - Director |
| 1907 | Le Piano irrésistible - Director |
| 1907 | Le billet de banque - Director |
| 1907 | Alice Guy tourne une phonoscène - Director |
| 1907 | Course à la saucisse - Director |
| 1907 | L'Enfant sur la barricade - Director |
| 1907 | Le bonnet à poil - Director |
| 1907 | Le frotteur - Director |
| 1907 | Madame a des envies - Director |
| 1907 | Le bonnet à poil - Writer |
| 1907 | Madame a des envies - Writer |
| 1906 | Les Druides - Director |
| 1906 | Le matelas épileptique - Director |
| 1906 | La crinoline - Director |
| 1906 | La femme collante - Director |
| 1906 | La femme collante - Writer |
| 1906 | La chaussette - Director |
| 1906 | Conscience de Prêtre - Director |
| 1906 | Conscience de Prêtre - Writer |
| 1906 | Course de taureaux à Nîmes - Director |
| 1906 | Mireille - Director |
| 1906 | Bonsoir, la fée aux fleurs - Director |
| 1906 | Effets de mer - Director |
| 1906 | L'Honneur du Corse - Director |
| 1906 | La Vie du Christ - Director |
| 1906 | La hiérarchie dans l'amour - Director |
| 1906 | La marâtre - Director |
| 1906 | La vérité sur l'homme-singe - Director |
| 1906 | Le Noël de Monsieur le curé - Director |
| 1906 | Le fils du garde-chasse - Director |
| 1906 | Les résultats du féminisme - Director |
| 1906 | Une course d'obstacle - Director |
| 1906 | Une histoire roulante - Director |
| 1906 | La Vie du Christ - Writer |
| 1906 | Les résultats du féminisme - Writer |
| 1905 | Esmeralda - Director |
| 1905 | Déménagement à la cloche de bois - Director |
| 1905 | Le cireur distrait - Director |
| 1905 | Cake-walk nègre - Director |
| 1905 | Clown, chien et ballon - Director |
| 1905 | Dranem, Five O'clock tea - Director |
| 1905 | Dranem, Le vrai jiu-jitsu - Director |
| 1905 | Espagne - Director |
| 1905 | Faust - Director |
| 1905 | La charité du prestidigitateur - Director |
| 1905 | La malagueña et le torero - Director |
| 1905 | La polka des trottins - Director |
| 1905 | La statue - Director |
| 1905 | Le cake-walk du Nouveau Cirque - Director |
| 1905 | Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly - Director |
| 1905 | Le tango - Director |
| 1905 | Les O'Mers dans 'Les Maçons' - Director |
| 1905 | Lilas-blanc - Director |
| 1905 | Polin, l'anatomie du conscrit - Director |
| 1905 | Questions indiscrètes - Director |
| 1905 | Saharet, boléro - Director |
| 1905 | À la cabane Bambou - Director |
| 1904 | La première cigarette - Director |
| 1904 | Le Crime de la Rue du Temple - Director |
| 1904 | Électrocutée - Director |
| 1903 | Comment monsieur prend son bain - Director |
| 1903 | Faust et Méphistophélès - Director |
| 1902 | Les malabares, acrobats - Director |
| 1902 | Miss Lina Esbrard, danseuse cosmopolitaine et serpentine - Director |
| 1902 | Danse excentrique - Director |
| 1902 | Intervention malencontreuse - Director |
| 1902 | Miss Dundee et ses chiens savants - Director |
| 1902 | Sage-femme de première classe - Director |
| 1902 | Sage-femme de première classe - Producer |
| 1901 | Danse basque - Director |
| 1900 | Little Tich et ses 'Big Boots' - Director |
| 1900 | Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage) - Director |
| 1900 | Au Bal de flore - Director |
| 1900 | Avenue de l'opéra - Director |
| 1900 | Chapellerie et charcuterie mécanique - Director |
| 1900 | Chez le photographe - Director |
| 1900 | Chirurgie fin de siècle - Director |
| 1900 | Coucher d'une Parisienne - Director |
| 1900 | Danse des saisons - Director |
| 1900 | Danse du papillon - Director |
| 1900 | La concierge - Director |
| 1900 | La fée aux choux, ou la naissance des enfants - Director |
| 1900 | Le départ d'Arlequin et de Pierrette - Director |
| 1900 | Coucher d'une Parisienne - Scenario Writer |
| 1899 | Au cabaret - Director |
| 1899 | Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine - Director |
| 1899 | La Sortie du Bain - Director |
| 1899 | La bonne absinthe - Director |
| 1898 | L'utilité des rayons x - Director |
| 1898 | La cène - Director |
| 1898 | Chez le magnétiseur - Director |
| 1898 | L'aveugle fin de siècle - Director |
| 1898 | Scène d'escamotage - Director |
| 1898 | Surprise d'une maison au petit jour - Director |
| 1897 | Ballet Libella - Director |
| 1897 | Danse Fleur de Lotus - Director |
| 1897 | Baignade dans le torrent - Director |
| 1897 | Danse serpentine par Mme. Bob Walter - Director |
| 1897 | L'arroseur arrosé - Director |
| 1897 | Le pêcheur dans le torrent - Director |
| 1897 | Les cambrioleurs - Director |
| 1896 | La fée aux choux - Director |
| 1896 | Les congierges - Director |
| 1896 | Les démolisseurs - Director |
| 1896 | La fée aux choux - Director of Photography |
| 1896 | La fée aux choux - Writer |
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