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.

The Emma Bovary Trial

The Emma Bovary Trial

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

6.8

2021

Le Parti du cinéma

Le Parti du cinéma

Self (voice) (archive footage)

7.7

2021

Quand Jean devint Renoir

Quand Jean devint Renoir

Self (archive footage)

10.0

2017

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

Self (archive footage)

7.2

2015

François Truffaut l'insoumis

François Truffaut l'insoumis

Self (archive footage)

5.7

2014

Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim

Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim

Self

5.0

2012

Un tournage à la campagne

Un tournage à la campagne

Self

6.0

1994

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II

Self (archive footage)

10.0

1993

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

Self (archive footage) · (3 episodes)

0.0

1978

The Christian Licorice Store

The Christian Licorice Store

Self

4.4

1971

Langlois

Langlois

Self

4.5

1970

Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes

Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes

Jean Renoir

0.0

1969

Directing Actors by Jean Renoir

Directing Actors by Jean Renoir

Self

7.0

1969

D'un Céline l'autre

D'un Céline l'autre

Self

7.0

1969

Louis Lumière

Louis Lumière

Self

6.9

1968

Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception

Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception

Self

0.0

1967

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur

Self - Interviewee

9.0

1967

Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif

Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif

Self

10.0

1967

Jean Renoir parle de son art

Jean Renoir parle de son art

Interviewee

0.0

1961

Discorama

Discorama

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

1959

L'album de famille de Jean Renoir

L'album de famille de Jean Renoir

Himself

6.0

1956

Cinépanorama

Cinépanorama

Self · (1 episode)

8.0

1956

A Day in the Country

A Day in the Country

Père Poulain

7.3

1946

The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game

Octave

7.5

1939

La Bête Humaine

La Bête Humaine

Cabuche

7.1

1938

The Spanish Earth

The Spanish Earth

Narrator (voice)

6.5

1937

Life Is Ours

Life Is Ours

Le patron du bistrot

6.3

1936

Mam'zelle Nitouche

Mam'zelle Nitouche

Master sergeant (uncredited)

5.5

1931

The Pursuit of Happiness

The Pursuit of Happiness

0.0

1930

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood

Compère le Loup

0.0

1930

Backbiters

Backbiters

le sous-préfet

6.6

1927

La P’tite Lili

La P’tite Lili

4.8

1927

Charleston Parade

Charleston Parade

Angel

5.8

1927

Those of Our Land

Those of Our Land

Self

6.3

1915