Jean Cocteau

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1889-07-05

Deathday 1963-10-11 (74 years old)

Place of Birth Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

Also Known As 장 콕토, Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau

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

Writer

2022
The Human Voice

as Original Story

2021
The Human Voice

as Writer

2021
2020
The Human Voice

as Theatre Play

2019
The Human Voice

as Writer

2018
2018
The Human Voice

as Writer

2018
The Human Voice

as Theatre Play

2016
2014
Human Voice

as Story

2013
Opium

as Writer

2009
Blues

as Theatre Play

2002
Beautiful

as Theatre Play

1991
Merlín

as Writer

1990
The Human Voice

as Writer

1985
1981
The Mystery of Oberwald

as Theatre Play

1979
La Dame de Monte-Carlo

as Original Story

1979
1978
1978
La Voce Umana

as Story

1975
L'aigle à deux têtes

as Theatre Play

1971
1966
The Human Voice

as Theatre Play

1965
1965
Thomas the Impostor

as Scenario Writer

1965
1965
Ľudský hlas

as Theatre Play

1961
1961
Princess of Cleves

as Adaptation

1960
1958
Anna the Maid

as Writer

1958
Le Bel Indifférent

as Theatre Play

1958
Anna the Maid

as Writer

1957
1954
Pantomimes

as Screenplay

1953
Intimate Relations

as Theatre Play

1951
Black Crown

as Writer

1950
1950
Orpheus

as Writer

1950
1948
1948
Love

as Novel

1948
The Eagle with Two Heads

as Theatre Play

1948
The Queen's Lover

as Adaptation

1946
Beauty and the Beast

as Screenplay

1946
1946
1943
The Eternal Return

as Screenplay

1943
1942
The Four-Poster Bed

as Screenplay

1940
Comedy of Happiness

as Adaptation

1932

Actor

2024
Jean Cocteau

as Self

2024
Daedalus

as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)

2020
A Night at the Opera

as Self (archive footage)

2020
2018
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau

as Self (archive footage)

2018
The Image Book

as (archive footage)

2007
Callas Assoluta

as Self (archive footage)

2007
To Each His Own Cinema

as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)

1997
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

as Self (archive footage)

1985
Steel Cathedrals

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

1984
1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

1967
Disorder Is 20 Years Old

as Self (archive footage)

1964
In This Atrocious Garden

as Narrator (voice)

1960
America as Seen by a Frenchman

as Narrator (Afterword)

1960
1959
Discorama

as Self

1958
Musée Grévin

as Self, a director

1957
It Happened on the 36 Candles

as Self (uncredited)

1956
1956
1954
1951
1950
Disorder

as Self

1950
Orpheus

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1950
The Strange Ones

as Narrator (voice)

1949
Daughter of the Sands

as Narrator (voice)

1948
The Storm Within

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1946
Beauty and the Beast

as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)

1946
Black Friendship

as Narrator

1944
La Malibran

as Alfred de Musset

1943
The Phantom Baron

as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme

1932
The Blood of a Poet

as Bit Part (uncredited)

Director

1960
1952
1950
Orpheus

as Director

1948
The Storm Within

as Director

1948
1947
Rhythm of Africa

as Director

1946
1932

Editor

1932