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.
Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) | Self (archive footage) | - |
| 2 | The Ocean Waif (1916) | Director / Writer | 7 |
| 3 | The Pit and the Pendulum (1913) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 4 | A House Divided (1913) | Director / Writer | 2 |
| 5 | Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 6 | The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 7 | Falling Leaves (1912) | Director / Writer | 5.5 |
| 8 | The Glue (1907) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 9 | Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris (1907) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 10 | The Race for the Sausage (1907) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 11 | Madame's Cravings (1906) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 12 | The Consequences of Feminism (1906) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 13 | The Drunken Mattress (1906) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 14 | The Dirigible 'Homeland' (1906) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 15 | The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 16 | The Game-Keeper's Son (1906) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 17 | A Sticky Woman (1906) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 18 | Man Monkey (1906) | Director / Writer | 1 |
| 19 | The Stepmother (1906) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 20 | A Story Well Spun (1906) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 21 | An Obstacle Course (1906) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 22 | Ocean Studies (1906) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 23 | Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea" (1906) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 24 | The Hierarchies of Love (1906) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 25 | A Priest's Conscience (1906) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 26 | Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu (1905) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 27 | Spain (1905) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 28 | The Sock (1905) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 29 | Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs" (1905) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 30 | Saharet Performs the Bolero (1905) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 31 | The Statue (1905) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 32 | The Fairy of Spring (1905) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 33 | Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee" (1905) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 34 | The Malagueña and the Bullfighter (1905) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 35 | Clown, Dog and Balloon (1905) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 36 | Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions" (1905) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 37 | Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque (1905) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 38 | The Bricklayers (1905) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 39 | Tango (1905) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 40 | The Magician's Alms (1905) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 41 | Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka" (1905) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 42 | In a Bamboo Hut (1905) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 43 | Faust and Mephistopheles (1903) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 44 | How Monsieur Takes His Bath (1903) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 45 | Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 46 | Eccentric Dance (1902) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 47 | Serpentine Dance (1902) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 48 | An Untimely Intrusion (1902) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 49 | Midwife to the Upper Class (1902) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 50 | Pierrette's Escapades (1900) | Director / Writer | 8 |
| 51 | At the Floral Ball (1900) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 52 | The Cabbage-Patch Fairy (1900) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 53 | Danse du papillon (1900) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 54 | The Landlady (1900) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 55 | At the Photographer's (1900) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 56 | Avenue de l'Opéra (1900) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 57 | Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance (1900) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 58 | Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder (1900) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 59 | Turn-of-the-Century Surgery (1900) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 60 | At the Club (1899) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 61 | Wonderful Absinthe (1899) | Director / Writer | 2 |
| 62 | The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man (1898) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 63 | The Burglars (1898) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 64 | Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak (1898) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 65 | Disappearing Act (1898) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 66 | Danse Fleur de Lotus (1897) | Director / Writer | 3 |
| 67 | Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter (1897) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 68 | Bathing in a Stream (1897) | Director / Writer | 2 |
| 69 | Ballet Libella (1897) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 70 | The Fisherman at the Stream (1897) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 71 | The Cabbage-Patch Fairy (1896) | Director / Writer | 6.5 |

