Jean Genet
Writing Born Dec 19, 1910 Paris, France 11 credits
Biography
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
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Frequent co-stars
Juliette Gréco
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Orson Welles
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Sophie Desmarets
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Roger Pierre
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Gabriel Pomerand
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Diane de Riaz
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Marcello Pagliero
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Nicole Védrès
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Career timeline
Little Girl Blue
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
Jean Genet, le contre exemplaire
Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
Apostrophes
Song of Love
Angela Davis Is at Your MercyShiraz 70Mayday
Chicago
Disorder
Full filmography
- Apostrophes (1975) as Self (archive footage)
- Chicago (1968) as Self
- Disorder (1950) as Self
- Little Girl Blue (2023) as Self (archive footage)
- Jean Genet, le contre exemplaire (2010) as Self
- Song of Love (1972) as Prisoner in Duo Fantasy (uncredited)
- André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer (2019) as Self - Writer (archive footage)
- Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy (1970) as Self
- Shiraz 70 (1970)
- Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (1982) as Self
- Mayday (1970) as Self