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