Jean Cocteau
Directing
Born July 5, 1889 in Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
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.
Filmography
Parade
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
Daedalus
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Les parents terribles
The Human Voice
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Self (archive footage)
The Human Voice
Morceaux de Cannes
The Human Voice
The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
The Human Voice
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
Self (archive footage)
The Human Voice
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
The Image Book
(archive footage)
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
The Human Voice
The Human Voice
The Human Voice
The Eagle with Two Heads
The Human Voice
Human Voice
Opium
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Self (archive footage)
Callas Assoluta
Self (archive footage)
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Self (archive footage)
Cocteau and Company
Himself
Beautiful
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Self (archive footage)
La Voix Humaine
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self (archive footage)
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
Self
Oedipus Rex
Edwige Feuillère en scène
The Human Voice
La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte
The Human Voice
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Self (archive footage)
The Mystery of Oberwald
The Human Voice
La Voce Umana
Le Bel Indifférent
The Human Voice
The Human Voice
Thomas the Impostor
In This Atrocious Garden
Narrator (voice)
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Self
The Infernal Machine
Self (voice)
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Self
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Self
In Search of Marcel Proust
Princess of Cleves
Beyond the Riviera
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Narrator (Afterword)
Testament of Orpheus
Le poète
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Himself
Discorama
Self
Le Bel Indifférent
Musée Grévin
Self, a director
Anna the Maid
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Self (uncredited)
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
Django Reinhardt
En direct de...
self
Cinépanorama
Self
Around the World with Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
Reflets de Cannes
Self
Intimate Relations
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Self
Venom and Eternity
Self
Black Crown
Disorder
Self
Orpheus
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Strange Ones
Narrator (voice)
The Century Is Fifty
Self
Daughter of the Sands
Narrator (voice)
The Storm Within
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
L'Amore
The Eagle with Two Heads
The Queen's Lover
Beauty and the Beast
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Reciter (voice)
La Malibran
Alfred de Musset
The Eternal Return
The Phantom Baron
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
The Four-Poster Bed
Comedy of Happiness
The Blood of a Poet
Bit Part (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema