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
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Orpheus (1950)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
The Image Book (2018)
as (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Actor
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
as Le poète
The Blood of a Poet (1932)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Callas Assoluta (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
Disorder (1950)
as Self
La Malibran (1944)
as Alfred de Musset
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain (1944)
as Reciter (voice)
The Strange Ones (1950)
as Narrator (voice)
Musée Grévin (1958)
as Self, a director
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau (1996)
as Self
America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960)
as Narrator (Afterword)
Eine Melodie - vier Maler (1955)
as Self
A Night at the Opera (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
The Century Is Fifty (1950)
as Self
Daedalus (2024)
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Daughter of the Sands (1949)
as Narrator (voice)
The Storm Within (1948)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir (1962)
as Self
The Phantom Baron (1943)
as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
The Infernal Machine (1963)
as Self (voice)
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
It Happened on the 36 Candles (1957)
as Self (uncredited)
In Search of Marcel Proust (1962)
Actor
Disorder Is 20 Years Old (1967)
as Self (archive footage)
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)
Actor
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 (1962)
as Self
In This Atrocious Garden (1964)
as Narrator (voice)
Venom and Eternity (1952)
as Self
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952)
as Self
Steel Cathedrals (1985)
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau (1964)
as Self
Black Friendship (1946)
as Narrator
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau (1959)
as Himself
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema (1925)
Actor
Beyond the Riviera (1960)
Actor
Colette (1951)
as Himself
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown (1984)
as Self (archive footage)
Cocteau and Company (2003)
as Himself
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf (2006)
Actor