Jean Cocteau
Biography
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 associat…
Known For
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Theatre Play
Beauty and the Beast
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Orpheus
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Blood of a Poet
Bit Part (uncredited)
Testament of Orpheus
Le poète
The Human Voice
Theatre Play
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Dialogue
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
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Filmography
Acting (54)
Movies (48)
Daedalus
2024as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau
2024as Self (archive footage)
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022as Self (archive footage)
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020as Self (archive footage)
A Night at the Opera
2020as Self (archive footage)
The Image Book
2018as (archive footage)
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018as Self (archive footage)
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009as Self (archive footage)
To Each His Own Cinema
2007as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Callas Assoluta
2007as Self (archive footage)
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006as Self (archive footage)
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
Cocteau and Company
2003as Himself
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001as Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997as Self (archive footage)
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996as Self
Steel Cathedrals
1985as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984as Self (archive footage)
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967as Self (archive footage)
In This Atrocious Garden
1964as Narrator (voice)
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964as Self
The Infernal Machine
1963as Self (voice)
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
1962as Self
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962as Self
In Search of Marcel Proust
1962
Beyond the Riviera
1960
Testament of Orpheus
1960as Le poète
America as Seen by a Frenchman
1960as Narrator (Afterword)
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
1959as Himself
Musée Grévin
1958as Self, a director
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957
It Happened on the 36 Candles
1957as Self (uncredited)
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
1955as Self
La Villa Santo-Sospir
1952as Self
Venom and Eternity
1952as Self
The Century Is Fifty
1950as Self
Orpheus
1950as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Disorder
1950as Self
The Strange Ones
1950as Narrator (voice)
Daughter of the Sands
1949as Narrator (voice)
The Storm Within
1948as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Beauty and the Beast
1946as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Black Friendship
1946as Narrator
La Malibran
1944as Alfred de Musset
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944as Reciter (voice)
The Phantom Baron
1943as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
The Blood of a Poet
1932as Bit Part (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925
Crew (81)
Movies (81)
Les parents terribles
2022Writer
The Human Voice
2022Original Story
The Human Voice
2021Story
The Human Voice
2021Writer
The Human Voice
2020Theatre Play
The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
2020Story
The Human Voice
2019Writer
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
2018Writer
The Human Voice
2018Story
The Human Voice
2018Theatre Play
The Human Voice
2018Writer
The Human Voice
2016Story
The Eagle with Two Heads
2016Original Story
Human Voice
2014Story
Opium
2013Writer
Blues
2009Theatre Play
Beautiful
2002Theatre Play
La Voix Humaine
1999Writer
Oedipus Rex
1993Writer
Edwige Feuillère en scène
1992Writer
Merlín
1991Writer
The Human Voice
1990Writer
La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte
1989Writer
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988Theatre Play
Oidipus Rex
1988Opera
The Human Voice
1985Story
The Mystery of Oberwald
1981Theatre Play
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
1979Original Story
The Human Voice
1979Story
La Voce Umana
1978Story
Le Bel Indifférent
1978Writer
L'aigle à deux têtes
1975Theatre Play
The Human Voice
1971Book
The Human Voice
1966Theatre Play
Thomas the Impostor
1965Author
Thomas the Impostor
1965Dialogue
Thomas the Impostor
1965Scenario Writer
Ľudský hlas
1965Theatre Play
In This Atrocious Garden
1964Writer
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962Director
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962Writer
Princess of Cleves
1961Adaptation
Princess of Cleves
1961Writer
Testament of Orpheus
1960Director
Testament of Orpheus
1960Writer
Anna the Maid
1958Writer
Le Bel Indifférent
1958Theatre Play
Anna the Maid
1958Writer
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957Director
Django Reinhardt
1957Writer
Pantomimes
1954Screenplay
Intimate Relations
1953Theatre Play
La Villa Santo-Sospir
1952Director
Black Crown
1951Writer
Orpheus
1950Director
Orpheus
1950Writer
The Strange Ones
1950Novel
The Strange Ones
1950Writer
The Storm Within
1948Director
The Storm Within
1948Writer
The Queen's Lover
1948Adaptation
L'Amore
1948Theatre Play
The Eagle with Two Heads
1948Director
The Eagle with Two Heads
1948Theatre Play
The Eagle with Two Heads
1948Writer
Rhythm of Africa
1947Director
Beauty and the Beast
1946Dialogue
Beauty and the Beast
1946Director
Beauty and the Beast
1946Screenplay
Beauty and the Beast
1946Story
Black Friendship
1946Writer
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
1945Dialogue
The Eternal Return
1943Screenplay
The Phantom Baron
1943Writer
The Four-Poster Bed
1942Screenplay
Comedy of Happiness
1940Adaptation
The Blood of a Poet
1932Director
The Blood of a Poet
1932Editor
The Blood of a Poet
1932Writer
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925Director
Parade
Writer
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