- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- September 15, 1894
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- February 12, 1979
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). In the 1930s, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films reflect the movement's left-wing politics and deal with social issues as well as class disparities. He was perhaps the most significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade fro…
Filmography
movieThe Emma Bovary Trial
2021 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
movieLe Parti du cinéma
2021 · Self (voice) (archive footage)
movieQuand Jean devint Renoir
2017 · Self (archive footage)
movieFrançois Truffaut l'insoumis
2014 · Self (archive footage)
movieCinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
2012 · Self
movieUn tournage à la campagne
1994 · Self
movieJean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993 · Self (archive footage)
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
movieLa règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
1987 · Self (archive footage)
movieRenoir, My Father
1978 · Book
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
tvEncyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 · Self (archive footage)
tvBBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Book
movieThe Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974 · The Narrator/Host, Director, Writer
movieCarola
1973 · Writer
movieThe Christian Licorice Store
1971 · Self
movieLanglois
1970 · Self
moviePostface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
1969 · Jean Renoir
movieDirecting Actors by Jean Renoir
1969 · Self
movieD'un Céline l'autre
1969 · Self
movieLouis Lumière
1968 · Self
movieJean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
1967 · Self
movieJean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967 · Self - Interviewee
movieJean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
1967 · Self
movieThe Elusive Corporal
1962 · Director, Writer
movieJean Renoir parle de son art
1961 · Interviewee
movieExperiment in Evil
1960 · Producer, Screenplay, Director
moviePicnic on the Grass
1959 · Director, Screenplay
tvDiscorama
1959 · Self
movieElena and Her Men
1956 · Director, Writer
movieL'album de famille de Jean Renoir
1956 · Self
tvCinépanorama
1956 · Self
movieFrench Cancan
1955 · Director, Adaptation, Writer
movieThe Golden Coach
1952 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe River
1951 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
movieThe Ways of Love
1950 · Director
movieThe Woman on the Beach
1947 · Director, Screenplay
movieA Day in the Country
1946 · Père Poulain, Director, Writer
movieThe Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Director
movieThe Southerner
1945 · Director, Writer
movieA Salute to France
1944 · Director, Screenplay
movieThis Land Is Mine
1943 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
movieThe Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Co-Director
movieSwamp Water
1941 · Director
movieTosca
1941 · Co-Director
movieCristobal's Gold
1940 · Dialogue
movieThe Rules of the Game
1939 · Octave, Director, Screenplay, Producer
movieLa Bête Humaine
1938 · Cabuche, Director, Screenplay
movieLa Marseillaise
1938 · Writer, Director, Producer
movieThe Spanish Earth
1937 · Narrator (voice)
movieGrand Illusion
1937 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Lower Depths
1936 · Director, Writer
movieLife Is Ours
1936 · Le patron du bistrot, Director, Writer
movieThe Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936 · Screenplay, Director
movieToni
1935 · Author, Director, Screenplay
A Bum Deal
movieA Bum Deal
1935 · Director
movieMadame Bovary
1934 · Director, Screenplay
movieChotard and Co.
1933 · Director, Writer
movieBoudu Saved from Drowning
1932 · Director, Screenplay
movieNight at the Crossroads
1932 · Director, Screenplay
movieLa Chienne
1931 · Director, Screenplay
movieMam'zelle Nitouche
1931 · Master sergeant (uncredited)
movieBaby's Laxative
1931 · Writer, Director
movieThe Pursuit of Happiness
1930
movieLittle Red Riding Hood
1930 · Compère le Loup, Writer, Producer
movieLe Bled
1929 · Director
movieThe Tournament
1928 · Director, Adaptation
movieThe Sad Sack
1928 · Director, Writer
movieThe Little Match Girl
1928 · Director, Producer, Writer
movieBackbiters
1927 · le sous-préfet, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor
movieLa P’tite Lili
1927 · Man with Bowler Hat
movieMarquitta
1927 · Director, Adaptation
movieCharleston Parade
1927 · Angel, Director
movieNana
1926 · Director, Producer
movieWhirlpool of Fate
1925 · Director, Producer, Set Decoration
movieThose of Our Land
1915 · Self