Jean Renoir
Directing
Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). In the 1930s, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films reflect the movement's left-wing politics and deal with social issues as well as class disparities. He was perhaps the most significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951). Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Known for
Directing42
movieThe Elusive Corporal
1962
Director
movieExperiment in Evil
1960
Director
moviePicnic on the Grass
1959
Director
movieElena and Her Men
1956
Director
movieFrench Cancan
1955
Director
movieThe Golden Coach
1952
Director
movieThe River
1951
Director
movieThe Ways of Love
1950
Director
movieThe Woman on the Beach
1947
Director
movieA Day in the Country
1946
Director
movieThe Southerner
1945
Director
movieA Salute to France
1944
Director
movieThis Land Is Mine
1943
Director
movieThe Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Co-Director
movieSwamp Water
1941
Director
movieTosca
1941
Co-Director
movieThe Rules of the Game
1939
Director
movieLa Bête Humaine
1938
Director
movieLa Marseillaise
1938
Director
movieGrand Illusion
1937
Director
movieThe Lower Depths
1936
Director
movieLife Is Ours
1936
Director
movieToni
1935
Director
A Bum Deal
1935
Director
movieMadame Bovary
1934
Director
movieChotard and Co.
1933
Director
movieNight at the Crossroads
1932
Director
movieLa Chienne
1931
Director
movieBaby's Laxative
1931
Director
movieLe Bled
1929
Director
movieThe Tournament
1928
Director
movieThe Sad Sack
1928
Director
movieThe Little Match Girl
1928
Director
movieBackbiters
1927
Director
movieMarquitta
1927
Director
movieCharleston Parade
1927
Director
movieNana
1926
Director
movieWhirlpool of Fate
1925
Director
Writing37
movieCarola
1973
Writer
movieExperiment in Evil
1960
Screenplay
moviePicnic on the Grass
1959
Screenplay
movieFrench Cancan
1955
Adaptation, Writer
movieThe Golden Coach
1952
Screenplay
movieThe River
1951
Screenplay
movieThe Woman on the Beach
1947
Screenplay
movieThe Southerner
1945
Writer
movieA Salute to France
1944
Screenplay
movieThis Land Is Mine
1943
Screenplay
movieCristobal's Gold
1940
Dialogue
movieThe Rules of the Game
1939
Screenplay
movieLa Bête Humaine
1938
Screenplay
movieLa Marseillaise
1938
Writer
movieGrand Illusion
1937
Screenplay
movieLife Is Ours
1936
Writer
movieThe Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936
Screenplay
movieToni
1935
Author, Screenplay
movieMadame Bovary
1934
Screenplay
movieChotard and Co.
1933
Writer
movieBoudu Saved from Drowning
1932
Screenplay
movieNight at the Crossroads
1932
Screenplay
movieLa Chienne
1931
Screenplay
movieBaby's Laxative
1931
Writer
movieThe Tournament
1928
Adaptation
movieThe Sad Sack
1928
Writer
movieBackbiters
1927
Screenplay
movieMarquitta
1927
Adaptation
Acting35
movieThe Emma Bovary Trial
2021
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
movieLe Parti du cinéma
2021
Self (voice) (archive footage)
movieQuand Jean devint Renoir
2017
Self (archive footage)
movieFrançois Truffaut l'insoumis
2014
Self (archive footage)
movieJean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
Self (archive footage)
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
1987
Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974
The Narrator/Host
movieJean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967
Self - Interviewee
movieJean Renoir parle de son art
1961
Interviewee
tvDiscorama
1959
Self
movieA Day in the Country
1946
Père Poulain
movieLa Bête Humaine
1938
Cabuche
movieThe Spanish Earth
1937
Narrator (voice)
movieLife Is Ours
1936
Le patron du bistrot
movieMam'zelle Nitouche
1931
Master sergeant (uncredited)
movieLittle Red Riding Hood
1930
Compère le Loup
movieBackbiters
1927
le sous-préfet
movieLa P’tite Lili
1927
Man with Bowler Hat
Production10
movieExperiment in Evil
1960
Producer
movieThe River
1951
Producer
movieThis Land Is Mine
1943
Producer
movieThe Rules of the Game
1939
Producer
movieLa Marseillaise
1938
Producer
movieLittle Red Riding Hood
1930
Producer
movieThe Little Match Girl
1928
Producer
movieBackbiters
1927
Producer
movieNana
1926
Producer
movieWhirlpool of Fate
1925
Producer
Art1
movieWhirlpool of Fate
1925
Set Decoration
Editing1
movieBackbiters
1927
Editor