Jean Renoir

Biography

Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) 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). In the 1930s, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films reflect the movement's left-wing politics and deal with social issues as well as class disparities. He was perhaps the most significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951). Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

Known For

Discorama

Cinépanorama

The Rules of the Game

La Bête Humaine

A Day in the Country

Little Red Riding Hood

Quand Jean devint Renoir

The Emma Bovary Trial

All Movies (32)

• The Emma Bovary Trial2021 · as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• Le Parti du cinéma2021 · as Self (voice) (archive footage)
• Quand Jean devint Renoir2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• François Truffaut l'insoumis2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim2012 · as Self
• Un tournage à la campagne1994 · as Self
• Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II1993 · as Self (archive footage)
• La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image1987 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir1974 · as The Narrator/Host
• The Christian Licorice Store1971 · as Self
• Langlois1970 · as Self
• Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes1969 · as Jean Renoir
• Directing Actors by Jean Renoir1969 · as Self
• D'un Céline l'autre1969 · as Self
• Louis Lumière1968 · as Self
• Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception1967 · as Self
• Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur1967 · as Self - Interviewee
• Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif1967 · as Self
• Jean Renoir parle de son art1961 · as Interviewee
• L'album de famille de Jean Renoir1956 · as Self
• A Day in the Country1946 · as Père Poulain
• The Rules of the Game1939 · as Octave
• La Bête Humaine1938 · as Cabuche
• The Spanish Earth1937 · as Narrator (voice)
• Life Is Ours1936 · as Le patron du bistrot
• Mam'zelle Nitouche1931 · as Master sergeant (uncredited)
• The Pursuit of Happiness1930
• Little Red Riding Hood1930 · as Compère le Loup
• Backbiters1927 · as le sous-préfet
• La P’tite Lili1927 · as Man with Bowler Hat
• Charleston Parade1927 · as Angel
• Those of Our Land1915 · as Self

All TV Shows (3)

• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma1978 · as Self (archive footage)
• Discorama1959 · as Self
• Cinépanorama1956 · as Self