Jean Renoir
Born in Paris, France — Sep 15 1894• Died Feb 12 1979
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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…
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BBC2 Play of the Week
Writing
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
The Rules of the Game
Octave
Grand Illusion
Directing
The Woman on the Beach
Directing
The River
Writing
French Cancan
Directing
Nana
Directing
La Bête Humaine
Cabuche
The Golden Coach
Directing
Experiment in Evil
Production
Elena and Her Men
Directing
The Elusive Corporal
Directing
Langlois
Self
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Directing
The Lower Depths
Directing
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Directing
Tosca
Directing
The Southerner
Directing
The Sad Sack
Directing
The Christian Licorice Store
Self
This Land Is Mine
Directing
Renoir, My Father
Writing
Little Red Riding Hood
Compère le Loup
Le Parti du cinéma
Self (voice) (archive footage)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage)
La Chienne
Directing
Carola
Writing
Toni
Writing
A Bum Deal
Directing
Louis Lumière
Self
Baby's Laxative
Writing
Le Bled
Directing
Night at the Crossroads
Directing
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Writing
Swamp Water
Directing
Cristobal's Gold
Writing
Picnic on the Grass
Directing
La Marseillaise
Writing
La P’tite Lili
Man with Bowler Hat
Madame Bovary
Directing
The Emma Bovary Trial
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
A Day in the Country
Père Poulain
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
A Salute to France
Directing
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Directing
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self (archive footage)
Life Is Ours
Le patron du bistrot
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Master sergeant (uncredited)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Self
D'un Céline l'autre
Self
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Jean Renoir
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage)
The Tournament
Directing
The Ways of Love
Directing
Backbiters
le sous-préfet
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
The Narrator/Host
The Little Match Girl
Directing
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee
The Whirlpool of Fate
Directing
Those of Our Land
Self
Chotard and Co.
Directing
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Self
Charleston Parade
Angel
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
Self (archive footage)
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Self
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Self
Un tournage à la campagne
Self
The Pursuit of Happiness
Marquitta
Directing
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Self