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Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Director · Born 1889-07-05 · Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

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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.

Directed

  1. Beauty and the Beast (1946) — Director
  2. Orpheus (1950) — Director
  3. The Blood of a Poet (1932) — Director
  4. Testament of Orpheus (1960) — Director
  5. The Storm Within (1948) — Director
  6. The Eagle with Two Heads (1948) — Director
  7. La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952) — Director
  8. 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements (1957) — Director
  9. Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 (1962) — Director
  10. Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema (1925) — Director
  11. Rhythm of Africa (1947) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Beauty and the Beast (1946) — The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
  2. Orpheus (1950) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  3. The Blood of a Poet (1932) — Bit Part (uncredited)
  4. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
  5. Testament of Orpheus (1960) — Le poète
  6. The Strange Ones (1950) — Narrator (voice)
  7. The Image Book (2018) — (archive footage)
  8. The Storm Within (1948) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  9. Venom and Eternity (1952) — Self
  10. La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952) — Self
  11. 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
  12. America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960) — Narrator (Afterword)
  13. The Phantom Baron (1943) — Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
  14. Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) — Self (archive footage)
  15. A Night at the Opera (2020) — Self (archive footage)
  16. Disorder (1950) — Self
  17. Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown (1984) — Self (archive footage)
  18. Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 (1962) — Self
  19. La Malibran (1944) — Alfred de Musset
  20. Callas Assoluta (2007) — Self (archive footage)
  21. Eine Melodie - vier Maler (1955) — Self
  22. Art of Style: Jean Cocteau (2018) — Self (archive footage)
  23. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self
  24. It Happened on the 36 Candles (1957) — Self (uncredited)
  25. Daughter of the Sands (1949) — Narrator (voice)
  26. Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma (2011) — Self (archive footage)
  27. Reflets de Cannes (1954) — Self
  28. From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain (1944) — Reciter (voice)
  29. Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema (1925)
  30. In This Atrocious Garden (1964) — Narrator (voice)
  31. Disorder Is 20 Years Old (1967) — Self (archive footage)
  32. Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments (2009) — Self (archive footage)
  33. Cocteau and Company (2003) — Himself
  34. Daedalus (2024) — Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
  35. The Century Is Fifty (1950) — Self
  36. Musée Grévin (1958) — Self, a director
  37. Jean Cocteau, cinéaste (2001) — Self (archive footage)
  38. Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur (2022) — Self (archive footage)
  39. The Infernal Machine (1963) — Self (voice)
  40. Morceaux de Cannes (2021)