Jean Cocteau

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.

Known For

Discorama

Cinépanorama

Reflets de Cannes

To Each His Own Cinema

Morceaux de Cannes

Beauty and the Beast

Orpheus

Testament of Orpheus

All Movies (51)

• Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas2026 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Jean Cocteau2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Daedalus2024 · as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
• Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Morceaux de Cannes2021
• A Night at the Opera2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Art of Style: Jean Cocteau2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Image Book2018 · as (archive footage)
• Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma2011 · as Self (archive footage)
• Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Callas Assoluta2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• To Each His Own Cinema2007 · as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
• The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf2006
• Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cocteau and Company2003 · as Himself
• Jean Cocteau, cinéaste2001 · as Self (archive footage)
• Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths1997 · as Self (archive footage)
• Great Writers: Jean Cocteau1996 · as Self
• Steel Cathedrals1985 · as Self (voice) (archive footage)
• Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown1984 · as Self (archive footage)
• Disorder Is 20 Years Old1967 · as Self (archive footage)
• In This Atrocious Garden1964 · as Narrator (voice)
• Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau1964 · as Self
• The Infernal Machine1963 · as Self (voice)
• Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir1962 · as Self
• Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 20001962 · as Self
• In Search of Marcel Proust1962
• Beyond the Riviera1960
• America as Seen by a Frenchman1960 · as Narrator (Afterword)
• Testament of Orpheus1960 · as Le poète
• Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau1959 · as Himself
• Musée Grévin1958 · as Self, a director
• It Happened on the 36 Candles1957 · as Self (uncredited)
• 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements1957
• Eine Melodie - vier Maler1955 · as Self
• La Villa Santo-Sospir1952 · as Self
• Venom and Eternity1952 · as Self
• Disorder1950 · as Self
• Orpheus1950 · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• The Strange Ones1950 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Century Is Fifty1950 · as Self
• Daughter of the Sands1949 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Storm Within1948 · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Beauty and the Beast1946 · as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
• Black Friendship1946 · as Narrator
• From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain1944 · as Reciter (voice)
• La Malibran1944 · as Alfred de Musset
• The Phantom Baron1943 · as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
• The Blood of a Poet1932 · as Bit Part (uncredited)
• Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema1925

All TV Shows (6)

• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma1978 · as Self (archive footage)
• Discorama1959 · as Self
• En direct de...1956 · as self
• Cinépanorama1956 · as Self
• Around the World with Orson Welles1955 · as Self (archive footage)
• Reflets de Cannes1954 · as Self