Jean Renoir
Directing
Born: 1894-09-15 in Paris, France
Biography
Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). In the 1930s, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films reflect the movement's left-wing politics and deal with social issues as well as class disparities. He was perhaps the most significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951). Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Known For
Discorama
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
The Rules of the Game
Octave
Louis Lumière
Self
La Bête Humaine
Cabuche
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage)
Langlois
Self
A Day in the Country
Père Poulain
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage)
The Emma Bovary Trial
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
Little Red Riding Hood
Compère le Loup
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Self
Life Is Ours
Le patron du bistrot
The Christian Licorice Store
Self
D'un Céline l'autre
Self
Backbiters
le sous-préfet
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Jean Renoir
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
The Narrator/Host
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self (archive footage)
La P’tite Lili
Man with Bowler Hat
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Self
Un tournage à la campagne
Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Self
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Master sergeant (uncredited)
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Self
Le Parti du cinéma
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Those of Our Land
Self
The Pursuit of Happiness
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
Charleston Parade
Angel