From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Movie | Daedalus | Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited) | 2024-07-17 |
Movie | Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments | Self (archive footage) | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | To Each His Own Cinema | Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage) | 2007-10-31 |
Movie | Callas Assoluta | Self (archive footage) | 2007-12-20 |
Movie | Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths | Self (archive footage) | 1997-02-22 |
Movie | Steel Cathedrals | Self (voice) (archive footage) | 1985-05-17 |
Movie | Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown | Self (archive footage) | 1984-11-15 |
Movie | Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 | Self | 1962-06-12 |
Movie | Testament of Orpheus | The Poet | 1960-02-18 |
Movie | 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements | 1957-03-15 | |
Movie | It Happened on the 36 Candles | Self (uncredited) | 1957-10-16 |
Series | Cinépanorama | 1956-02-04 | |
Movie | Venom and Eternity | Self | 1951-04-20 |
Movie | The Century Is Fifty | Self | 1950-03-16 |
Movie | The Strange Ones | Narrator (voice) | 1950-03-29 |
Movie | Orpheus | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1950-09-29 |
Movie | Disorder | Self | 1950-12-02 |
Movie | Daughter of the Sands | Narrator (voice) | 1949-01-11 |
Movie | The Storm Within | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1948-12-01 |
Movie | Beauty and the Beast | The Voice of Magic (uncredited) | 1946-10-29 |
Movie | La Malibran | Alfred de Musset | 1944-05-03 |
Movie | From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain | Reciter (voice) | 1944-05-04 |
Movie | The Phantom Baron | Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme | 1943-06-16 |
Movie | The Blood of a Poet | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1932-01-20 |