Jean Cocteau
Directing • Born 1889-07-05 – Died 1963-10-11
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.
Filmography
54 credits
Beauty and the Beast
Movie • 1946
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Movie • 1957
Self (uncredited)
Testament of Orpheus
Movie • 1960
The Poet
The Strange Ones
Movie • 1950
Narrator (voice)
Venom and Eternity
Movie • 1952
Self
La Malibran
Movie • 1944
Alfred de Musset
The Image Book
Movie • 2018
(archive footage)
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Movie • 1944
Reciter (voice)
Orpheus
Movie • 1950
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Daughter of the Sands
Movie • 1949
Narrator (voice)
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
Movie • 1925
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
Movie • 1957
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Movie • 1984
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Movie • 1962
Self
In This Atrocious Garden
Movie • 1964
Narrator (voice)
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Movie • 1964
Self
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Movie • 1967
Self (archive footage)
Steel Cathedrals
Movie • 1985
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Movie • 1959
Himself
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
Callas Assoluta
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Movie • 1960
Narrator (Afterword)
Cocteau and Company
Movie • 2003
Himself
Beyond the Riviera
Movie • 1960
Daedalus
Movie • 2024
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Century Is Fifty
Movie • 1950
Self
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Black Friendship
Movie • 1946
Narrator
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Movie • 1952
Self
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
Movie • 1955
Self
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
The Blood of a Poet
Movie • 1932
Bit Part (uncredited)
Musée Grévin
Movie • 1958
Self, a director
The Phantom Baron
Movie • 1943
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
The Storm Within
Movie • 1948
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Movie • 1962
Self
Disorder
Movie • 1950
Self
A Night at the Opera
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
To Each His Own Cinema
Movie • 2007
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
Movie • 1996
Self
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
Movie • 2006
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Infernal Machine
Movie • 1963
Self (voice)
In Search of Marcel Proust
Movie • 1962
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV • 1978
Self (archive footage)
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
En direct de...
TV • 1956
self
Reflets de Cannes
TV • 1954
Self
Around the World with Orson Welles
TV • 1955
Self (archive footage)