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
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
La Belle et la Bête
Self (uncredited)
C'est arrivé à 36 chandelles
The Poet
Le Testament d'Orphée
Narrator (voice)
Les Enfants terribles
Self
Traité de bave et d'éternité
Alfred de Musset
La Malibran
(archive footage)
Le Livre d'image
Reciter (voice)
De Jeanne d'Arc à Philippe Pétain
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Orphée
Narrator (voice)
Les Noces De Sable
Jean Cocteau fait du cinéma
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d'un inconnu
Self
Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000
Narrator (voice)
Dans ce jardin atroce
Self
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
Le désordre a vingt ans
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Steel Cathedrals
Himself
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
ایران درودی، نقاش لحظههای اثیری
Self (archive footage)
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Self (archive footage)
Callas Assoluta
Narrator (Afterword)
L'Amérique insolite
Himself
Cocteau et compagnie
Beyond the Riviera
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Daedalus
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau
Self
Ce siècle a cinquante ans
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau, mensonges et vérités
Narrator
L'Amitié noire
Self
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Self
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
Self (archive footage)
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Bit Part (uncredited)
Le Sang d'un poète
Self, a director
Musée Grévin
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
Le Baron fantôme
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Les Parents terribles
Self
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Self
Désordre
Self (archive footage)
Une nuit à l'Opéra
Self (archive footage)
Cocteau—Al Brown: le poète et le boxeur
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
Self
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Les derniers jours d'Edith Piaf
Self (archive footage)
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Self (voice)
La machine infernale
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
47
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-07-05
Place of Birth
Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Also Known As
장 콕토