Jean Cocteau
Born: 1889-07-05 in Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Died: 1963-10-11
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
- Daedalus as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
- Jean Cocteau as Self (archive footage)
2022
- The Human Voice ... (Original Story)
- Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur as Self (archive footage)
- Les parents terribles ... (Writer)
2021
- Morceaux de Cannes
- The Human Voice ... (Writer)
- The Human Voice ... (Story)
2020
- The Human Voice ... (Theatre Play)
- A Night at the Opera as Self (archive footage)
- Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer as Self (archive footage)
- The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times ... (Story)
2019
- The Human Voice ... (Writer)
2018
- The Image Book as (archive footage)
- The Human Voice ... (Writer)
- The Human Voice ... (Theatre Play)
- The Human Voice ... (Story)
- Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle ... (Writer)
- Art of Style: Jean Cocteau as Self (archive footage)
2016
- The Eagle with Two Heads ... (Original Story)
- The Human Voice ... (Story)
2014
- Human Voice ... (Story)
2013
- Opium ... (Writer)
2011
- Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Blues ... (Theatre Play)
- Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments as Self (archive footage)
2007
- To Each His Own Cinema as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
- Callas Assoluta as Self (archive footage)
2006
- The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
- Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Cocteau and Company as Himself
2002
- Beautiful ... (Theatre Play)
2001
- Jean Cocteau, cinéaste as Self (archive footage)
1999
- La Voix Humaine ... (Writer)
1997
- Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths as Self (archive footage)
1996
- Great Writers: Jean Cocteau as Self
1993
- Oedipus Rex ... (Writer)
1992
- Edwige Feuillère en scène ... (Writer)
1991
- Merlín ... (Writer)
1990
- The Human Voice ... (Writer)
1989
- La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte ... (Writer)
1988
- Oidipus Rex ... (Opera)
1985
- Steel Cathedrals as Self (voice) (archive footage)
- The Human Voice ... (Story)
1984
- Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown as Self (archive footage)
1981
- The Mystery of Oberwald ... (Theatre Play)
1979
- The Human Voice ... (Story)
- La Dame de Monte-Carlo ... (Original Story)
1978
- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self (archive footage)
- Le Bel Indifférent ... (Writer)
- La Voce Umana ... (Story)
1975
- L'aigle à deux têtes ... (Theatre Play)
1971
- The Human Voice ... (Book)
1967
- Disorder Is 20 Years Old as Self (archive footage)
1966
- The Human Voice ... (Theatre Play)
1965
- Thomas the Impostor ... (Scenario Writer)
- Ľudský hlas ... (Theatre Play)
1964
- In This Atrocious Garden as Narrator (voice)
- Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau as Self
1963
- The Infernal Machine as Self (voice)
1962
1961
- Princess of Cleves ... (Writer)
1960
- Testament of Orpheus as Le poète
- America as Seen by a Frenchman as Narrator (Afterword)
- Beyond the Riviera
1959
- Discorama as Self
- Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau as Himself
1958
- Anna the Maid ... (Writer)
- Le Bel Indifférent ... (Theatre Play)
- Musée Grévin as Self, a director
- Anna the Maid ... (Writer)
1957
- It Happened on the 36 Candles as Self (uncredited)
- 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
- Django Reinhardt ... (Writer)
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- En direct de... as self
1955
- Around the World with Orson Welles as Self (archive footage)
- Eine Melodie - vier Maler as Self
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- Pantomimes ... (Screenplay)
1953
- Intimate Relations ... (Theatre Play)
1952
- Venom and Eternity as Self
- La Villa Santo-Sospir as Self
1951
- Black Crown ... (Writer)
1950
- Orpheus as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Strange Ones as Narrator (voice)
- Disorder as Self
- The Century Is Fifty as Self
1949
- Daughter of the Sands as Narrator (voice)
1948
- L'Amore ... (Theatre Play)
- The Storm Within as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Queen's Lover ... (Adaptation)
- The Eagle with Two Heads ... (Writer)
1947
- Rhythm of Africa ... (Director)
1946
- Beauty and the Beast as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
- Black Friendship as Narrator
1945
- Les Dames du bois de Boulogne ... (Dialogue)
1944
- La Malibran as Alfred de Musset
- From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain as Reciter (voice)
1943
- The Eternal Return ... (Screenplay)
- The Phantom Baron as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
1942
- The Four-Poster Bed ... (Screenplay)
1940
- Comedy of Happiness ... (Adaptation)
1932
- The Blood of a Poet as Bit Part (uncredited)