Jean Cocteau
Born in Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France — Jul 05 1889• Died Oct 11 1963
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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…
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Reflets de Cannes
Self
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Writing
Orpheus
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
En direct de...
self
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Around the World with Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
Beauty and the Beast
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Testament of Orpheus
Le poète
Daedalus
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
The Blood of a Poet
Bit Part (uncredited)
The Human Voice
Writing
The Eagle with Two Heads
Writing
The Image Book
(archive footage)
L'Amore
Writing
Human Voice
Writing
Disorder
Self
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Narrator (Afterword)
The Queen's Lover
Writing
Black Crown
Writing
The Mystery of Oberwald
Writing
Opium
Writing
The Human Voice
Writing
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Writing
Callas Assoluta
Self (archive footage)
Oedipus Rex
Writing
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
Musée Grévin
Self, a director
Comedy of Happiness
Writing
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Self (archive footage)
Venom and Eternity
Self
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Reciter (voice)
The Human Voice
Writing
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Self (uncredited)
Thomas the Impostor
Writing
Morceaux de Cannes
The Century Is Fifty
Self
La Malibran
Alfred de Musset
Parade
Writing
The Eternal Return
Writing
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self (archive footage)
The Four-Poster Bed
Writing
Blues
Writing
Steel Cathedrals
Self (voice) (archive footage)
L'aigle à deux têtes
Writing
Princess of Cleves
Writing
The Human Voice
Writing
The Storm Within
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Phantom Baron
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
The Strange Ones
Narrator (voice)
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Self
Le Bel Indifférent
Writing
Django Reinhardt
Writing
Intimate Relations
Writing
Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
The Human Voice
Writing
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Self (archive footage)
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
The Eagle with Two Heads
Directing
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
Writing
Beautiful
Writing
Les parents terribles
Writing
Beyond the Riviera
The Human Voice
Writing
Le Bel Indifférent
Writing
Oidipus Rex
Writing
The Infernal Machine
Self (voice)
Edwige Feuillère en scène
Writing
Merlín
Writing
Anna the Maid
Writing
The Human Voice
Writing
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
Writing
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
Self (archive footage)
Daughter of the Sands
Narrator (voice)
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Self
Rhythm of Africa
Directing
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Self (archive footage)
Pantomimes
Writing
The Human Voice
Writing
The Human Voice
Writing
Ľudský hlas
Writing
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Self (archive footage)
The Human Voice
Writing
Black Friendship
Narrator
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
Cocteau and Company
Himself
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
Self
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Self (archive footage)
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
Self
Anna the Maid
Writing
La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte
Writing
The Human Voice
Writing
The Human Voice
Writing
The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
Writing
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Himself
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Self
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
The Human Voice
Writing
In This Atrocious Garden
Narrator (voice)
The Human Voice
Writing
La Voix Humaine
Writing
In Search of Marcel Proust
La Voce Umana
Writing
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Self