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  • BIRTH 05/07/1889
  • DEATH 11/10/1963
  • Country France
  • MOVIES 9
  • DIRECTOR 6
  • SCRIPT 13

Jean Cocteau

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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Jean Cocteau

Movies (9)

La Belle et la Bête
La Belle et la Bête
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Le Livre d'image
Le Livre d'image
(archive footage)
Orphée
Orphée
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Le Sang d'un poète
Le Sang d'un poète
Bit Part (uncredited)
Les Parents terribles
Les Parents terribles
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Les Noces De Sable
Les Noces De Sable
Narrator (voice)
Le Testament d'Orphée
Le Testament d'Orphée
The Poet
Les Enfants terribles
Les Enfants terribles
Narrator (voice)
Traité de bave et d'éternité
Traité de bave et d'éternité
Self

Director (6)

La Belle et la Bête
La Belle et la Bête
Orphée
Orphée
L'Aigle à deux têtes
L'Aigle à deux têtes
Le Testament d'Orphée
Le Testament d'Orphée
Le Sang d'un poète
Le Sang d'un poète
Les Parents terribles
Les Parents terribles

Script (13)

La Belle et la Bête
La Belle et la Bête
Orphée
Orphée
L'Aigle à deux têtes
L'Aigle à deux têtes
Le Testament d'Orphée
Le Testament d'Orphée
Opium
Opium
Le Sang d'un poète
Le Sang d'un poète
L'Éternel Retour
L'Éternel Retour
Les Parents terribles
Les Parents terribles
Les Enfants terribles
Les Enfants terribles
Merlín
Merlín
La Voix humaine
La Voix humaine
Le Lit à colonnes
Le Lit à colonnes
La Princesse de Clèves
La Princesse de Clèves