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.
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Acting (43 movies)
Beauty and the Beast
1946
It Happened on the 36 Candles
1957
Testament of Orpheus
1960
The Strange Ones
1950
Venom and Eternity
1952
La Malibran
1944
The Image Book
2018
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944
Orpheus
1950
Daughter of the Sands
1949
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962
In This Atrocious Garden
1964
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
1959
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006
Callas Assoluta
2007
America as Seen by a Frenchman
1960
Cocteau and Company
2003
Beyond the Riviera
1960
Daedalus
2024
Jean Cocteau
2024
The Century Is Fifty
1950
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997
La Villa Santo-Sospir
1952
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018
The Blood of a Poet
1932
Musée Grévin
1958
The Phantom Baron
1943
The Storm Within
1948
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
1962
Disorder
1950
A Night at the Opera
2020
Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022
The Infernal Machine
1963
Directing (11 movies)
Beauty and the Beast
1946
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925
Orpheus
1950
The Blood of a Poet
1932
Testament of Orpheus
1960
The Storm Within
1948
La Villa Santo-Sospir
1952
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962
The Eagle with Two Heads
1948
Rhythm of Africa
1947
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957