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