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Jean Cocteau

Directing Born Jul 5, 1889 Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France 24 credits

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 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.

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Known for

Film

Beauty and the Beast

as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)

Full filmography

  • Cinépanorama (1956) as Self
  • Discorama (1959) as Self
  • Reflets de Cannes (1954) as Self
  • Orpheus (1950) as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  • Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) as Self (archive footage)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1946) as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
  • To Each His Own Cinema (2007) as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
  • Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) as Self (archive footage)
  • Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
  • Testament of Orpheus (1960) as Le poète
  • Daedalus (2024) as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
  • The Blood of a Poet (1932) as Bit Part (uncredited)
  • En direct de... (1956) as self
  • The Image Book (2018) as (archive footage)
  • The Strange Ones (1950) as Narrator (voice)
  • Callas Assoluta (2007) as Self (archive footage)
  • Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Jean Cocteau, cinéaste (2001) as Self (archive footage)
  • From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain (1944) as Reciter (voice)
  • La Malibran (1944) as Alfred de Musset
  • Disorder (1950) as Self
  • The Century Is Fifty (1950) as Self
  • A Night at the Opera (2020) as Self (archive footage)
  • Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths (1997) as Self (archive footage)