Jean Cocteau
Born July 05, 1889 (Age: 136)
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Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
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 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.
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.
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Filmography
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 119
Callas Assoluta
2007
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 118
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
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as
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Age: 116
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 116
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 111
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 107
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996
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as Self
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Age: 107
No Image
Steel Cathedrals
1985
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as Self (voice) (archive footage)
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Age: 95
In This Atrocious Garden
1964
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 75
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964
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as Self
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Age: 74
The Infernal Machine
1963
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 74
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
1962
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as Self
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Age: 72
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962
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as Self
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Age: 72
In Search of Marcel Proust
1962
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as
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Age: 72
Beyond the Riviera
1960
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as
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Age: 71
America as Seen by a Frenchman
1960
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as Narrator (Afterword)
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Age: 70
Testament of Orpheus
1960
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as Le poète
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Age: 70
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
1959
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as Himself
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Age: 69
Musée Grévin
1958
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as Self, a director
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Age: 68
No Image
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
1955
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as Self
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Age: 65
Disorder
1950
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as Self
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Age: 61
Orpheus
1950
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as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 61
The Strange Ones
1950
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 60
The Century Is Fifty
1950
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as Self
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Age: 60
The Blood of a Poet
1932
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as Bit Part (uncredited)
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Age: 42