Jean Cocteau
Directing
Born: 1889-07-05 in Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
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. 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
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Orpheus
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Blood of a Poet
Bit Part (uncredited)
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Testament of Orpheus
Le poète
The Strange Ones
Narrator (voice)
The Image Book
(archive footage)
The Storm Within
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Venom and Eternity
Self
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Self
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Narrator (Afterword)
The Phantom Baron
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
Around the World with Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Self
Disorder
Self
Callas Assoluta
Self (archive footage)
La Malibran
Alfred de Musset
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
Colette
Himself
Cinépanorama
Self
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Self (uncredited)
Daughter of the Sands
Narrator (voice)
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Reflets de Cannes
Self
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Reciter (voice)
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
In This Atrocious Garden
Narrator (voice)
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Self (archive footage)
Cocteau and Company
Himself
Daedalus
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
The Century Is Fifty
Self
Musée Grévin
Self, a director
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Self (archive footage)
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Self (archive footage)
The Infernal Machine
Self (voice)