Jean Cocteau
Born
July 5, 1889
Died
October 11, 1963 (74 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
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
Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
2024
Daedalus
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
2024
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
2020
Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
Self (archive footage)
2020
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
2018
The Image Book
(archive footage)
2018
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Self (archive footage)
2009
Callas Assoluta
Self (archive footage)
2007
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
2007
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Self (archive footage)
2006
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
himself (archive)
2001
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self (archive footage)
1997
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
Self
1996
Steel Cathedrals
Self (voice) (archive footage)
1985
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Self (archive footage)
1984
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
1978
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Self (archive footage)
1967
In This Atrocious Garden
Narrator (voice)
1964
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Self
1964
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Self
1962
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Self
1962
Beyond the Riviera
1960
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Narrator (Afterword)
1960
Testament of Orpheus
The Poet
1960
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Himself
1959
Discorama
Self · (1 episode)
1959
Musée Grévin
Self, a director
1958
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Self (uncredited)
1957
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957
En direct de...
self · (1 episode)
1956
Cinépanorama
Self · (3 episodes)
1956
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
Self
1955
Reflets de Cannes
Self · (4 episodes)
1954
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Self
1952
Venom and Eternity
Self
1952
Disorder
Self
1950
Orpheus
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1950
The Strange Ones
Narrator (voice)
1950
The Century Is Fifty
Self
1950
Daughter of the Sands
Narrator (voice)
1949
The Storm Within
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Beauty and the Beast
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
1946
Black Friendship
Narrator
1946
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Reciter (voice)
1944
La Malibran
Alfred de Musset
1944
The Phantom Baron
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
1943
The Blood of a Poet
Bit Part (uncredited)
1932
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925
Cocteau et compagnie
Himself