Jean Cocteau
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.
Known for
Directing11
movieTestament of Orpheus
1960
Director
movieLa Villa Santo-Sospir
1952
Director
movieOrpheus
1950
Director
movieThe Storm Within
1948
Director
movieBeauty and the Beast
1946
Director
movieThe Blood of a Poet
1932
Director
Writing62
movieLes parents terribles
2022
Writer, Dialogue
movieThe Human Voice
2022
Original Story
movieThe Human Voice
2021
Writer
movieThe Human Voice
2020
Theatre Play
movieThe Human Voice
2019
Writer
movieThe Human Voice
2018
Theatre Play
movieThe Human Voice
2018
Writer
movieThe Eagle with Two Heads
2016
Original Story
movieHuman Voice
2014
Story
movieOpium
2013
Writer
Blues
2009
Theatre Play
movieBeautiful
2002
Theatre Play
movieLa Voix Humaine
1999
Writer
movieOedipus Rex
1993
Writer
Merlín
1991
Writer
movieThe Human Voice
1990
Writer
movieThe Mystery of Oberwald
1981
Theatre Play
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
1979
Original Story
movieThe Human Voice
1966
Theatre Play
movieThomas the Impostor
1965
Scenario Writer, Author, Dialogue
Ľudský hlas
1965
Theatre Play
movieThe Infernal Machine
1963
Theatre Play
moviePrincess of Cleves
1961
Writer, Adaptation
movieLe Bel Indifférent
1958
Theatre Play
movieAnna the Maid
1958
Writer
Pantomimes
1954
Screenplay
movieIntimate Relations
1953
Theatre Play
movieBlack Crown
1951
Writer
movieOrpheus
1950
Writer
movieThe Strange Ones
1950
Novel, Writer
movieL'Amore
1948
Theatre Play
movieThe Eagle with Two Heads
1948
Writer, Theatre Play
movieThe Queen's Lover
1948
Adaptation
movieBeauty and the Beast
1946
Dialogue, Screenplay, Story
movieThe Eternal Return
1943
Screenplay
movieThe Four-Poster Bed
1942
Screenplay
movieComedy of Happiness
1940
Adaptation
movieParade
Writer
Acting58
movieProust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieJean Cocteau
2024
Self (archive footage)
movieDaedalus
2024
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
movieCharles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022
Self (archive footage)
movieA Night at the Opera
2020
Self (archive footage)
movieCocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020
Self (archive footage)
movieArt of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Image Book
2018
(archive footage)
movieLes Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
2011
Self (archive footage)
movieIran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009
Self (archive footage)
movieCallas Assoluta
2007
Self (archive footage)
movieTo Each His Own Cinema
2007
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
movieJean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006
Self (archive footage)
movieCocteau and Company
2003
Himself
movieJean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001
Self (archive footage)
movieJean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997
Self (archive footage)
Steel Cathedrals
1985
Self (voice) (archive footage)
movieJean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984
Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
Self (archive footage)
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967
Self (archive footage)
movieIn This Atrocious Garden
1964
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Infernal Machine
1963
Self (voice)
movieAmerica as Seen by a Frenchman
1960
Narrator (Afterword)
movieTestament of Orpheus
1960
Le poète
tvDiscorama
1959
Self
movieMusée Grévin
1958
Self, a director
movieIt Happened on the 36 Candles
1957
Self (uncredited)
tvAround the World with Orson Welles
1955
Self (archive footage)
movieOrpheus
1950
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Strange Ones
1950
Narrator (voice)
movieDaughter of the Sands
1949
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Storm Within
1948
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
movieBeauty and the Beast
1946
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
movieFrom Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944
Reciter (voice)
movieLa Malibran
1944
Alfred de Musset
movieThe Phantom Baron
1943
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
movieThe Blood of a Poet
1932
Bit Part (uncredited)