Jean Cocteau
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
53
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-07-05
Day of death
1963-10-11 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Jean Cocteau
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
Discorama
Cinépanorama
The Storm Within
Steel Cathedrals
Venom and Eternity
The Blood of a Poet
Beauty and the Beast
Reflets de Cannes
The Strange Ones
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
To Each His Own Cinema
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Daedalus
Orpheus
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
Daughter of the Sands
The Image Book
Beyond the Riviera
The Century Is Fifty
En direct de...
Disorder
Callas Assoluta
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
Testament of Orpheus
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
The Phantom Baron
Around the World with Orson Welles
It Happened on the 36 Candles
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Jean Cocteau
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
A Night at the Opera
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Black Friendship
Cocteau and Company
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
La Malibran
In This Atrocious Garden
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
Musée Grévin
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
The Infernal Machine
