Jean Cocteau
Birthday
1889/07/05
Day of death
1963/10/11 (74 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Also know as
장 콕토, Jean Maurice Eugène Clément 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 associat...Read more
Acting
(1946) Beauty and the Beast
as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
(1957) It Happened on the 36 Candles
as Self (uncredited)
(1960) Testament of Orpheus
as The Poet
(1950) The Strange Ones
as Narrator (voice)
(1952) Venom and Eternity
as Self
(1944) La Malibran
as Alfred de Musset
(2018) The Image Book
as (archive footage)
(1944) From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
as Reciter (voice)
(1950) Orpheus
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1949) Daughter of the Sands
as Narrator (voice)
(1925) Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
as ---
(1957) 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
as ---
(1984) Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
as Self (archive footage)
(1962) Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
as Self
(1964) In This Atrocious Garden
as Narrator (voice)
(1964) Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
as Self
(1967) Disorder Is 20 Years Old
as Self (archive footage)
(1985) Steel Cathedrals
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
(1959) Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
as Himself
(2009) Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
as Self (archive footage)
(2006) Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
as self
(2007) Callas Assoluta
as Self (archive footage)
(1960) America as Seen by a Frenchman
as Narrator (Afterword)
Cocteau et compagnie
as Himself
(1960) Beyond the Riviera
as ---
(2024) Daedalus
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
(2024) Jean Cocteau
as Self (archive footage)
(1950) The Century Is Fifty
as Self
(1997) Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
as Self (archive footage)
(1946) Black Friendship
as Narrator
(1952) La Villa Santo-Sospir
as Self
(1955) Eine Melodie - vier Maler
as Self
(2018) Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
as Self (archive footage)
(1932) The Blood of a Poet
as Bit Part (uncredited)
(1958) Musée Grévin
as Self, a director
(1943) The Phantom Baron
as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
(1948) The Storm Within
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1962) Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
as Self
(1950) Disorder
as Self
(2020) A Night at the Opera
as Self (archive footage)
(2020) Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
as Self (archive footage)
(2007) To Each His Own Cinema
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
(1996) Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
as Self
(1978) Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) Cinépanorama
as Self
(1959) Discorama
as Self
(1956) En direct de...
as self
(1954) Reflets de Cannes
as Self