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Jean Cocteau

Born · July 5, 1889

Died · October 11, 1963 (74 years old)

Known For: Directing

Place of Birth: Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

Bio

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

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Orpheus

Orpheus

The Blood of a Poet

The Blood of a Poet

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

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

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