Jean Renoir

ActorWriterDirectorProducerDirecting Sep 15 (died age 84) Paris, France 1915–2021 (106 year career)

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Biography

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 …

Known For

Film

Grand Illusion

Director

Film

The Rules of the Game

Octave

Film

A Day in the Country

Père Poulain

Film

La Bête Humaine

Cabuche

Film

La Chienne

Director

Film

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Director

Film

The River

Director

Film

French Cancan

Adaptation

Filmography

Acting (35)

Movies (32)

The Emma Bovary Trial

2021

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

6.8

Le Parti du cinéma

2021

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

7.7

Quand Jean devint Renoir

2017

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

François Truffaut l'insoumis

2014

as Self (archive footage)

5.7

Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim

2012

as Self

5.0

Un tournage à la campagne

1994

as Self

6.0

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II

1993

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image

1987

as Self (archive footage)

The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

1974

as The Narrator/Host

5.7

The Christian Licorice Store

as Self

Langlois

as Self

D'un Céline l'autre

as Self

Directing Actors by Jean Renoir

1969

as Self

7.0

Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes

1969

as Jean Renoir

Louis Lumière

1968

as Self

7.0

Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception

1967

as Self

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur

1967

as Self - Interviewee

9.0

Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif

1967

as Self

10.0

Jean Renoir parle de son art

1961

as Interviewee

L'album de famille de Jean Renoir

as Self

A Day in the Country

as Père Poulain

The Rules of the Game

as Octave

La Bête Humaine

as Cabuche

The Spanish Earth

as Narrator (voice)

Life Is Ours

as Le patron du bistrot

6.3

Mam'zelle Nitouche

1931

as Master sergeant (uncredited)

5.5

The Pursuit of Happiness

1930

Little Red Riding Hood

1930

as Compère le Loup

Backbiters

as le sous-préfet

Charleston Parade

as Angel

La P’tite Lili

Those of Our Land

as Self

Television (3)

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

1978

as Self (archive footage)

Discorama

1959

as Self

Cinépanorama

1956

as Self

8.0

Crew (93)

Movies (92)

Renoir, My Father

1978

Book

The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

1974

Director

5.7

The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

Writer

Carola

Writer

The Elusive Corporal

Director

The Elusive Corporal

Writer

Experiment in Evil

Director

Experiment in Evil

Producer

Experiment in Evil

Screenplay

Picnic on the Grass

Director

Picnic on the Grass

Screenplay

Elena and Her Men

Director

Elena and Her Men

Writer

French Cancan

Adaptation

French Cancan

Director

French Cancan

Writer

The Golden Coach

Director

The Golden Coach

Screenplay

The River

Director

The River

Producer

The River

Screenplay

The Ways of Love

Director

The Woman on the Beach

1947

Director

6.1

The Woman on the Beach

1947

Screenplay

6.1

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Director

A Day in the Country

Director

A Day in the Country

Writer

The Southerner

Director

The Southerner

Writer

A Salute to France

Director

A Salute to France

1944

Screenplay

This Land Is Mine

Director

This Land Is Mine

Producer

This Land Is Mine

Screenplay

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Co-Director

Swamp Water

Director

Tosca

Co-Director

Cristobal's Gold

Dialogue

The Rules of the Game

1939

Director

7.5

The Rules of the Game

1939

Producer

7.5

The Rules of the Game

Screenplay

La Marseillaise

Director

La Marseillaise

Producer

La Marseillaise

Writer

La Bête Humaine

Director

La Bête Humaine

Screenplay

Grand Illusion

Director

Grand Illusion

Screenplay

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

1936

Director

7.0

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

Screenplay

The Lower Depths

Director

The Lower Depths

Writer

Life Is Ours

Director

Life Is Ours

Writer

Toni

Author

Toni

Director

Toni

Screenplay

A Bum Deal

Director

Madame Bovary

Director

Madame Bovary

Screenplay

Chotard and Co.

Director

Chotard and Co.

Writer

Boudu Saved from Drowning

1932

Director

7.0

Boudu Saved from Drowning

1932

Screenplay

7.0

Night at the Crossroads

1932

Director

6.4

Night at the Crossroads

Screenplay

La Chienne

Director

La Chienne

Screenplay

Baby's Laxative

Director

Baby's Laxative

Writer

Little Red Riding Hood

1930

Producer

Little Red Riding Hood

1930

Writer

Le Bled

Director

The Sad Sack

Director

The Sad Sack

Writer

The Little Match Girl

1928

Director

6.9

The Little Match Girl

1928

Producer

6.9

The Little Match Girl

Writer

The Tournament

Adaptation

The Tournament

Director

Backbiters

Director

Backbiters

Editor

Backbiters

Producer

Backbiters

Screenplay

Charleston Parade

Director

Marquitta

Adaptation

Marquitta

1927

Director

Nana

Director

Nana

Producer

The Whirlpool of Fate

1925

Director

6.5

The Whirlpool of Fate

1925

Producer

6.5

The Whirlpool of Fate

1925

Set Decoration

6.5

Television (1)

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

Book

7.0