Jean Cocteau
Directing
Born: 1889-07-05 in Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Biography
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet. His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Cocteau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Discorama
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
Reflets de Cannes
Self
Pour le plaisir
Self
Beauty and the Beast
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
En direct de...
self
Orpheus
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Around the World with Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
Callas Assoluta
Self (archive footage)
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
The Image Book
(archive footage)
Disorder
Self
Morceaux de Cannes
La Malibran
Alfred de Musset
Testament of Orpheus
Le poète
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Blood of a Poet
Bit Part (uncredited)
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Self (archive footage)
In Search of Marcel Proust
Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
The Infernal Machine
Self (voice)
Musée Grévin
Self, a director
Cocteau and Company
Himself
The Strange Ones
Narrator (voice)
The Storm Within
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
Self (archive footage)
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Narrator (Afterword)
Venom and Eternity
Self
Daughter of the Sands
Narrator (voice)
The Phantom Baron
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
The Century Is Fifty
Self
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Self (archive footage)
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Reciter (voice)
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Self
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Self
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Self (uncredited)