Jean Cocteau
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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
Credits
Orpheus (1950)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Actor
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
as Le poète
The Blood of a Poet (1932)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Daedalus (2024)
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
The Strange Ones (1950)
as Narrator (voice)
The Image Book (2018)
as (archive footage)
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Callas Assoluta (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
La Malibran (1944)
as Alfred de Musset
Musée Grévin (1958)
as Self, a director
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
Disorder (1950)
as Self
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain (1944)
as Reciter (voice)
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
The Storm Within (1948)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Venom and Eternity (1952)
as Self
The Century Is Fifty (1950)
as Self
America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960)
as Narrator (Afterword)
The Phantom Baron (1943)
as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
In Search of Marcel Proust (1962)
Actor
Daughter of the Sands (1949)
as Narrator (voice)
A Night at the Opera (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau (1996)
as Self
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
It Happened on the 36 Candles (1957)
as Self (uncredited)
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
Actor
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir (1962)
as Self
La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952)
as Self
Eine Melodie - vier Maler (1955)
as Self
The Infernal Machine (1963)
as Self (voice)
Beyond the Riviera (1960)
Actor
Disorder Is 20 Years Old (1967)
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf (2006)
Actor
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 (1962)
as Self
Steel Cathedrals (1985)
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau (1964)
as Self
Black Friendship (1946)
as Narrator
Cocteau and Company (2003)
as Himself
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown (1984)
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema (1925)
Actor
In This Atrocious Garden (1964)
as Narrator (voice)
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau (1959)
as Himself