Name
Jean Cocteau
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1889-07-05
Deathday
1963-10-11 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
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Known For
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The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn...
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A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pi...
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Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge o...
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In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, pai...
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An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover....
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An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wast...
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A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a...
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A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitat...
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Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veilin...
- 1946 Beauty and the Beast as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
- 1957 It Happened on the 36 Candles as Self (uncredited)
- 1960 Testament of Orpheus as Le poète
- 1950 The Strange Ones as Narrator (voice)
- 1952 Venom and Eternity as Self
- 1944 La Malibran as Alfred de Musset
- 2018 The Image Book as (archive footage)
- 1944 From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain as Reciter (voice)
- 1950 Orpheus as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1949 Daughter of the Sands as Narrator (voice)
- 1925 Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
- 1957 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
- 1984 Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown as Self (archive footage)
- 1962 Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 as Self
- 1964 In This Atrocious Garden as Narrator (voice)
- 1964 Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau as Self
- 1967 Disorder Is 20 Years Old as Self (archive footage)
- 1985 Steel Cathedrals as Self (voice) (archive footage)
- 1959 Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau as Himself
- 2009 Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 Callas Assoluta as Self (archive footage)
- 1960 America as Seen by a Frenchman as Narrator (Afterword)
- 2003 Cocteau and Company as Himself
- 1960 Beyond the Riviera
- 2024 Daedalus as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
- 2024 Jean Cocteau as Self (archive footage)
- 1950 The Century Is Fifty as Self
- 1997 Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths as Self (archive footage)
- 1946 Black Friendship as Narrator
- 1952 La Villa Santo-Sospir as Self
- 1955 Eine Melodie - vier Maler as Self
- 2018 Art of Style: Jean Cocteau as Self (archive footage)
- 1932 The Blood of a Poet as Bit Part (uncredited)
- 1958 Musée Grévin as Self, a director
- 1943 The Phantom Baron as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
- 1948 The Storm Within as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1962 Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir as Self
- 1950 Disorder as Self
- 2020 A Night at the Opera as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 To Each His Own Cinema as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
- 1996 Great Writers: Jean Cocteau as Self
- 2001 Jean Cocteau, cinéaste as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
- 2022 Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur as Self (archive footage)
- 1963 The Infernal Machine as Self (voice)
- 1962 In Search of Marcel Proust
- 2021 Morceaux de Cannes
- 2026 Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2011 Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma as Self (archive footage)
- 1951 Colette as Himself
- 1978 Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma ( 2 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1956 Cinépanorama ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1959 Discorama ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1956 En direct de... ( 1 episode ) as self
- 1954 Reflets de Cannes ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1955 Around the World with Orson Welles ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1964 Pour le plaisir ( 2 episodes ) as Self
