Personal Info
Known For:
Directing
Birthday:
July 5, 1889
Place of Birth:
Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
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Jean Cocteau
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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Daedalus | Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2024 | Jean Cocteau | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | A Night at the Opera | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | The Image Book | (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Art of Style: Jean Cocteau | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Callas Assoluta | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | To Each His Own Cinema | Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Jean Cocteau, cinéaste | himself (archive) |
| 1997 | Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Great Writers: Jean Cocteau | Self |
| 1985 | Steel Cathedrals | Self (voice) (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown | Self (archive footage) |
| 1967 | Disorder Is 20 Years Old | Self (archive footage) |
| 1964 | In This Atrocious Garden | Narrator (voice) |
| 1964 | Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau | Self |
| 1962 | Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 | Self |
| 1962 | Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir | Self |
| 1960 | Testament of Orpheus | The Poet |
| 1960 | America as Seen by a Frenchman | Narrator (Afterword) |
| 1960 | Beyond the Riviera | |
| 1959 | Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau | Himself |
| 1958 | Musée Grévin | Self, a director |
| 1957 | It Happened on the 36 Candles | Self (uncredited) |
| 1957 | 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements | |
| 1955 | Eine Melodie - vier Maler | Self |
| 1952 | Venom and Eternity | Self |
| 1952 | La Villa Santo-Sospir | Self |
| 1950 | The Strange Ones | Narrator (voice) |
| 1950 | Orpheus | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1950 | The Century Is Fifty | Self |
| 1950 | Disorder | Self |
| 1949 | Daughter of the Sands | Narrator (voice) |
| 1948 | The Storm Within | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Beauty and the Beast | The Voice of Magic (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Black Friendship | Narrator |
| 1944 | La Malibran | Alfred de Musset |
| 1944 | From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain | Reciter (voice) |
| 1943 | The Phantom Baron | Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme |
| 1932 | The Blood of a Poet | Bit Part (uncredited) |
| 1925 | Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema | |
| Cocteau et compagnie | Himself |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma | Self (archive footage) |
| 1959 | Discorama | Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1956 | En direct de... | self |
| 1954 | Reflets de Cannes | Self |