Jean Cocteau
Known for: Directing
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
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Series
Discorama
Self
1959
Series
Around the World with Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
1955
Series
Reflets de Cannes
Self
1954
Film
Beauty and the Beast
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
1946
Film
Orpheus
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Series
Pour le plaisir
Self
1964
Film
Testament of Orpheus
Le poète
1960
Film
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
2007
Film
The Image Book
(archive footage)
2018
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1978
Film
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Film
The Blood of a Poet
Bit Part (uncredited)
1932
Film
Callas Assoluta
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
La Malibran
Alfred de Musset
1944
Series
En direct de...
self
1956
Film
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2026
Film
The Strange Ones
Narrator (voice)
1950
Film
Disorder
Self
1950
Film
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Reciter (voice)
1944
Film
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Narrator (Afterword)
1960
Film
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
Self
1996
Film
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Self (uncredited)
1957
Film
The Phantom Baron
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
1943
Film
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Self
1952
Film
The Storm Within
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Film
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
In This Atrocious Garden
Narrator (voice)
1964
Film
Daughter of the Sands
Narrator (voice)
1949
Film
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Self
1964
Film
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
In Search of Marcel Proust
1962
Film
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Self (archive footage)
2001
Film
Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Musée Grévin
Self, a director
1958
Film
The Infernal Machine
Self (voice)
1963
Film
Daedalus
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
2024
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Self (archive footage)
1967
Black Friendship
Narrator
1946
Film
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Self
1962
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
Self
1955
Film
Venom and Eternity
Self
1952
Film
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957
Film
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Himself
1959
Film
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Self (archive footage)
2022
Steel Cathedrals
Self (voice) (archive footage)
1985
Film
The Century Is Fifty
Self
1950
Film
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Self
1962
Film
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Self (archive footage)
1984
Film
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
Film
Beyond the Riviera
1960
Film
Cocteau and Company
Himself
2003
Film
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925