Jean Cocteau
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday5 July 1889
Died11 October 1963 (age 74)
Place of birthMaison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Known credits112
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 associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstei…
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Daedalus
2024 · Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Les parents terribles
2022 · Writer
Les parents terribles
2022 · Dialogue
The Human Voice
2022 · Original Story
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022 · Self (archive footage)
The Human Voice
2021 · Writer
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
The Human Voice
2021 · Story
The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
2020 · Story
A Night at the Opera
2020 · Self (archive footage)
The Human Voice
2020 · Theatre Play
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020 · Self (archive footage)
The Human Voice
2019 · Writer
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018 · Self (archive footage)
The Image Book
2018 · (archive footage)
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
2018 · Writer
The Human Voice
2018 · Theatre Play
The Human Voice
2018 · Story
The Human Voice
2018 · Writer
The Eagle with Two Heads
2016 · Original Story
The Human Voice
2016 · Story
Human Voice
2014 · Story
Opium
2013 · Writer
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Blues
2009 · Theatre Play
Callas Assoluta
2007 · Self (archive footage)
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Cocteau and Company
2003 · Himself
Beautiful
2002 · Theatre Play
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001 · Self (archive footage)
La Voix Humaine
1999 · Writer
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996 · Self
Oedipus Rex
1993 · Writer
Edwige Feuillère en scène
1992 · Writer
Merlín
1991 · Writer
The Human Voice
1990 · Writer
La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte
1989 · Writer
Oidipus Rex
1988 · Opera
The Human Voice
1985 · Story
Steel Cathedrals
1985 · Self (voice) (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984 · Self (archive footage)
The Mystery of Oberwald
1981 · Theatre Play
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