Jean Genet
Born: 1910-12-19 in Paris, France
Died: 1986-04-15
Known For: Writing
Biography
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
Filmography
2026
- May Day x 4 as Self
2024
- Flowers and Beasts ... (Novel)
2023
- Little Girl Blue as Self (archive footage)
2019
- André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer as Self - Writer (archive footage)
2010
- Jean Genet, le contre exemplaire as Self
2003
- Serva e Padrona ... (Novel)
1999
- Genet à Chatila ... (Writer)
1993
- Un boxeur endormi ... (Poem)
1986
- Le sphinx ... (Other)
1985
- Les Bonnes ... (Writer)
1982
- Querelle ... (Novel)
- Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech as Self
1981
- Black Mirror ... (Screenplay)
1975
- Apostrophes as Self (archive footage)
- Poor Pretty Eddie ... (Novel)
- The Maids ... (Theatre Play)
- Ritual ... (Original Story)
- Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète ... (Writer)
1972
- Song of Love as Prisoner in Duo Fantasy (uncredited)
1970
- Mayday as Self
- Shiraz 70
- Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy as Self
1968
- Chicago as Self
1967
- Condemned and Possessed ... (Poem)
1966
- Mademoiselle ... (Story)
- Deathwatch ... (Writer)
1963
- The Balcony ... (Theatre Play)
1950
- Disorder as Self