Jean Renoir
Born
September 15, 1894
Died
February 12, 1979 (84 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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
The Emma Bovary Trial
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
Le Parti du cinéma
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage)
2017
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2015
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage)
2014
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Self
2012
Un tournage à la campagne
Self
1994
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self (archive footage)
1993
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage) · (3 episodes)
1978
The Christian Licorice Store
Self
1971
Langlois
Self
1970
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Jean Renoir
1969
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Self
1969
D'un Céline l'autre
Self
1969
Louis Lumière
Self
1968
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Self
1967
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
1967
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Self
1967
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee
1961
Discorama
Self · (1 episode)
1959
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Himself
1956
Cinépanorama
Self · (1 episode)
1956
A Day in the Country
Père Poulain
1946
The Rules of the Game
Octave
1939
La Bête Humaine
Cabuche
1938
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
1937
Life Is Ours
Le patron du bistrot
1936
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Master sergeant (uncredited)
1931
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930
Little Red Riding Hood
Compère le Loup
1930
Backbiters
le sous-préfet
1927
La P’tite Lili
1927
Charleston Parade
Angel
1927
Those of Our Land
Self
1915