Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Writing

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
La Belle et la Bête
7.5

(1946) Beauty and the Beast

as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)

C'est arrivé à 36 chandelles
2.0

(1957) It Happened on the 36 Candles

as Self (uncredited)

Le Testament d'Orphée
7.7

(1960) Testament of Orpheus

as The Poet

Les Enfants terribles
6.7

(1950) The Strange Ones

as Narrator (voice)

Traité de bave et d'éternité
6.7

(1952) Venom and Eternity

as Self

La Malibran
5.7

(1944) La Malibran

as Alfred de Musset

Le Livre d'image
6.4

(2018) The Image Book

as (archive footage)

De Jeanne d'Arc à Philippe Pétain
0.0

(1944) From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain

as Reciter (voice)

Orphée
7.6

(1950) Orpheus

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Les Noces De Sable
10.0

(1949) Daughter of the Sands

as Narrator (voice)

Jean Cocteau fait du cinéma
0.0

(1925) Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema

as ---

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
5.9

(1957) 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

as ---

Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d'un inconnu
6.5

(1984) Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000
6.4

(1962) Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000

as Self

Dans ce jardin atroce
10.0

(1964) In This Atrocious Garden

as Narrator (voice)

Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
0.0

(1964) Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau

as Self

0.0

(1967) Disorder Is 20 Years Old

as Self (archive footage)

0.0

(1985) Steel Cathedrals

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
0.0

(1959) Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau

as Himself

ایران درودی، نقاش لحظه‌های اثیری
0.0

(2009) Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
0.0

(2006) Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or

as self

Callas Assoluta
6.5

(2007) Callas Assoluta

as Self (archive footage)

L'Amérique insolite
6.4

(1960) America as Seen by a Frenchman

as Narrator (Afterword)

6.0

Cocteau et compagnie

as Himself

Beyond the Riviera
0.0

(1960) Beyond the Riviera

as ---

Daedalus
10.0

(2024) Daedalus

as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)

Jean Cocteau
0.0

(2024) Jean Cocteau

as Self (archive footage)

Ce siècle a cinquante ans
0.0

(1950) The Century Is Fifty

as Self

Jean Cocteau, mensonges et vérités
0.0

(1997) Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

as Self (archive footage)

0.0

(1946) Black Friendship

as Narrator

La Villa Santo-Sospir
7.2

(1952) La Villa Santo-Sospir

as Self

5.0

(1955) Eine Melodie - vier Maler

as Self

Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
7.2

(2018) Art of Style: Jean Cocteau

as Self (archive footage)

Le Sang d'un poète
7.2

(1932) The Blood of a Poet

as Bit Part (uncredited)

0.0

(1958) Musée Grévin

as Self, a director

Le Baron fantôme
6.1

(1943) The Phantom Baron

as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme

Les Parents terribles
6.5

(1948) The Storm Within

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
0.0

(1962) Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir

as Self

Désordre
5.0

(1950) Disorder

as Self

Une nuit à l'Opéra
6.4

(2020) A Night at the Opera

as Self (archive footage)

Cocteau - Al Brown: le poète et le boxeur
0.0

(2020) Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer

as Self (archive footage)

Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
6.5

(2007) To Each His Own Cinema

as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)

Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
0.0

(1996) Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

as Self

0.0

(1978) Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

Cinépanorama
8.0

(1956) Cinépanorama

as Self

Discorama
0.0

(1959) Discorama

as Self

En direct de...
0.0

(1956) En direct de...

as self

Reflets de Cannes
2.0

(1954) Reflets de Cannes

as Self