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Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). During the 1930s Renoir enjoyed great success as a filmmaker. In 1931 he directed his first sound films, On purge bébé and La Chienne (The Bitch). The following year he made Boudu Saved From Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux), a farcical sendup of the pretensions of a middle-class bookseller and his family, who meet with comic, and ultimately disastrous, results when they attempt to reform a vagrant played by Michel Simon. By the middle of the decade Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films, such as The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, 1935), La Vie Est a Nous (People of France) (1936) and La Marseillaise (1938), reflect the movement's politics. In 1937 he made one of his most well-known films, Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion), starring Erich von Stroheim and the immensely popular Jean Gabin. A film on the theme of brotherhood about a series of escape attempts by French POWs during World War I, it was enormously successful but was also banned in Germany, and later in Italy after having won the "Best Artistic Ensemble" award at the Venice Film Festival. This was followed by another cinematic success: The Human Beast (La Bête Humaine) (1938), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by Émile Zola and starring Simone Simon and Jean Gabin.


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Born:
Sep 15, 1894 In Paris, France
Movie/TV Credits:
21
First Appeared:
In the movie Those of Our Land 1915-11-22
Latest Project:
Movie The Emma Bovary Trial 2021-09-15
Known For
Filmography
Movie The Emma Bovary Trial Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2021-09-15
Movie Le Parti du cinéma Self (voice) (archive footage) 2021-02-01
Movie Quand Jean devint Renoir Self (archive footage) 2017-04-30
Movie Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words Self (archive footage) 2015-08-27
Movie François Truffaut l'insoumis Self (archive footage) 2014-11-02
Movie Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim Self 2012-10-14
Movie Un tournage à la campagne Self 1994-08-10
Movie The Christian Licorice Store Self 1971-11-01
Movie D'un Céline l'autre Self 1969-05-08
Movie Directing Actors by Jean Renoir Self 1969-09-14
Movie Louis Lumière Self 1968-01-01
Movie L'album de famille de Jean Renoir Himself 1956-05-24
Movie A Day in the Country Père Poulain 1946-05-21
Movie The Rules of the Game Octave 1939-07-09
Movie La Bête Humaine Cabuche 1938-12-23
Movie The Spanish Earth Narrator (voice) 1937-07-10
Movie Life Is Ours Le patron du bistrot 1936-04-07
Movie Mam'zelle Nitouche Master sergeant (uncredited) 1931-10-09
Movie The Pursuit of Happiness 1930-05-26
Movie Backbiters le sous-préfet 1927-11-09
Movie Those of Our Land Self 1915-11-22