Name
Jean Renoir
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1894-09-15
Deathday
1979-02-12 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Biography
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
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A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-cl...
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Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century Fran...
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The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated...
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Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decid...
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Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman...
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New Europe presidential candidate Etienne Alexis is a scientist promoting artificial insem...
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Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himsel...
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Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into...
- 1939 The Rules of the Game as Octave
- 2021 The Emma Bovary Trial as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 1938 La Bête Humaine as Cabuche
- 1946 A Day in the Country as Père Poulain
- 1931 Mam'zelle Nitouche as Master sergeant (uncredited)
- 1915 Those of Our Land as Self
- 1927 La P’tite Lili as Man with Bowler Hat
- 1927 Charleston Parade as Angel
- 1937 The Spanish Earth as Narrator (voice)
- 1967 Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception as Self
- 1969 Directing Actors by Jean Renoir as Self
- 1968 Louis Lumière as Self
- 1927 Backbiters as le sous-préfet
- 1930 Little Red Riding Hood as Compère le Loup
- 1930 The Pursuit of Happiness
- 1993 Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 Un tournage à la campagne as Self
- 1967 Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif as Self
- 1969 Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes as Jean Renoir
- 1970 Langlois as Self
- 1967 Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur as Self - Interviewee
- 1956 L'album de famille de Jean Renoir as Self
- 2012 Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim as Self
- 1961 Jean Renoir parle de son art as Interviewee
- 1971 The Christian Licorice Store as Self
- 2014 François Truffaut l'insoumis as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 Quand Jean devint Renoir as Self (archive footage)
- 1936 Life Is Ours as Le patron du bistrot
- 1969 D'un Céline l'autre as Self
- 2021 Le Parti du cinéma as Self (voice) (archive footage)
- 1974 The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir as The Narrator/Host
- 1987 La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image as Self (archive footage)
- 1959 Discorama ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1978 Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma ( 3 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1956 Cinépanorama ( 1 episode ) as Self
