- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- July 5, 1889
- Place of Birth
- Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
- Died
- October 11, 1963
Jean Cocteau
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…
Filmography
movieProust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieJean Cocteau
2024 · Self (archive footage)
movieDaedalus
2024 · Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
movieLes parents terribles
2022 · Writer, Dialogue
movieThe Human Voice
2022 · Original Story
movieCharles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Human Voice
2021 · Writer
movieMorceaux de Cannes
2021
movieThe Human Voice
2021 · Story
movieThe Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
2020 · Story
movieA Night at the Opera
2020 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Human Voice
2020 · Theatre Play
movieCocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Human Voice
2019 · Writer
movieArt of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Image Book
2018 · (archive footage)
moviePoulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
2018 · Writer
movieThe Human Voice
2018 · Theatre Play
movieThe Human Voice
2018 · Story
movieThe Human Voice
2018 · Writer
movieThe Eagle with Two Heads
2016 · Original Story
movieThe Human Voice
2016 · Story
movieHuman Voice
2014 · Story
movieOpium
2013 · Writer
movieLes Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
2011 · Self (archive footage)
movieIran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Blues
2009 · Theatre Play
movieCallas Assoluta
2007 · Self (archive footage)
movieTo Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
movieThe Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
movieJean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006 · Self (archive footage)
movieCocteau and Company
2003 · Himself
movieBeautiful
2002 · Theatre Play
movieJean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001 · Self (archive footage)
movieLa Voix Humaine
1999 · Writer
movieJean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997 · Self (archive footage)
movieGreat Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996 · Self
movieOedipus Rex
1993 · Writer
movieEdwige Feuillère en scène
1992 · Writer
Merlín
1991 · Writer
movieThe Human Voice
1990 · Writer
movieLa Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte
1989 · Writer
Oidipus Rex
1988 · Opera
movieThe Human Voice
1985 · Story
Steel Cathedrals
1985 · Self (voice) (archive footage)
movieJean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Mystery of Oberwald
1981 · Theatre Play
movieThe Human Voice
1979 · Story
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
1979 · Original Story
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 · Self (archive footage)
movieLa Voce Umana
1978 · Story
movieLe Bel Indifférent
1978 · Writer
L'aigle à deux têtes
1975 · Theatre Play
movieThe Human Voice
1971 · Book
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Human Voice
1966 · Theatre Play
movieThomas the Impostor
1965 · Scenario Writer, Author, Dialogue
Ľudský hlas
1965 · Theatre Play
movieIn This Atrocious Garden
1964 · Narrator (voice), Writer
moviePortrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964 · Self
movieThe Infernal Machine
1963 · Self (voice), Theatre Play
movieMarcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
1962 · Self
movieJean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962 · Self, Director, Writer
movieIn Search of Marcel Proust
1962
moviePrincess of Cleves
1961 · Writer, Adaptation
movieBeyond the Riviera
1960
movieAmerica as Seen by a Frenchman
1960 · Narrator (Afterword)
movieTestament of Orpheus
1960 · Le poète, Director, Writer
movieToute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
1959 · Himself
tvDiscorama
1959 · Self
movieLe Bel Indifférent
1958 · Theatre Play
movieMusée Grévin
1958 · Self, a director
movieAnna the Maid
1958 · Writer
Anna the Maid
1958 · Writer
movieIt Happened on the 36 Candles
1957 · Self (uncredited)
movie8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957 · , Director
movieDjango Reinhardt
1957 · Writer
tvEn direct de...
1956 · self
tvCinépanorama
1956 · Self
tvAround the World with Orson Welles
1955 · Self (archive footage)
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
1955 · Self
tvReflets de Cannes
1954 · Self
Pantomimes
1954 · Screenplay
movieIntimate Relations
1953 · Theatre Play
movieLa Villa Santo-Sospir
1952 · Self, Director
movieVenom and Eternity
1952 · Self
movieBlack Crown
1951 · Writer
movieDisorder
1950 · Self
movieOrpheus
1950 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
movieThe Strange Ones
1950 · Narrator (voice), Novel, Writer
movieThe Century Is Fifty
1950 · Self
movieDaughter of the Sands
1949 · Narrator (voice)
movieThe Storm Within
1948 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
movieL'Amore
1948 · Theatre Play
movieThe Eagle with Two Heads
1948 · Director, Writer, Theatre Play
movieThe Queen's Lover
1948 · Adaptation
Rhythm of Africa
1947 · Director
movieBeauty and the Beast
1946 · The Voice of Magic (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Story, Dialogue
Black Friendship
1946 · Narrator, Writer
movieLes Dames du bois de Boulogne
1945 · Dialogue
movieFrom Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944 · Reciter (voice)
movieLa Malibran
1944 · Alfred de Musset
movieThe Eternal Return
1943 · Screenplay
movieThe Phantom Baron
1943 · Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme, Writer
movieThe Four-Poster Bed
1942 · Screenplay
movieComedy of Happiness
1940 · Adaptation
movieThe Blood of a Poet
1932 · Bit Part (uncredited), Director, Writer, Editor
movieJean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925 · , Director
movieParade
— · Writer
La macchina da scrivere
— · Creator