Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ 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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Movies Made by Jean Cocteau (60)

Blues (2009)

Theatre Play

Beautiful (2002)

Theatre Play

L'Amore (1948)

Theatre Play

Movies starring Jean Cocteau (47)

Jean Cocteau (2024)

Self (Archive Footage)

Daedalus (2024)

Sampled Interview (Voice) (Uncredited)

A Night at the Opera (2020)

Self (Archive Footage)

Art of Style: Jean Cocteau (2018)

Self (Archive Footage)

The Image Book (2018)

(Archive Footage)

Callas Assoluta (2007)

Self (Archive Footage)

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Self (Segment "47 Ans Après") (Archive Footage)

Jean Cocteau, cinéaste (2001)

Self (Archive Footage)

Steel Cathedrals (1985)

Self (Voice) (Archive Footage)

Disorder Is 20 Years Old (1967)

Self (Archive Footage)

Musée Grévin (1958)

Self, A Director

Orpheus (1950)

Narrator (Voice) (Uncredited)

The Strange Ones (1950)

Narrator (Voice)

The Storm Within (1948)

Narrator (Voice) (Uncredited)

Beauty and the Beast (1946)

The Voice Of Magic (Uncredited)

La Malibran (1944)

Alfred De Musset

The Phantom Baron (1943)

Le Baron Julius Carol - Le Baron Fantôme

The Blood of a Poet (1932)

Bit Part (Uncredited)

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