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person_profile-Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir Died at age: 84

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jean Renoir

Date of Birth:

Sep 15, 1894

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Feb 12, 1979

Biography of

Jean Renoir

    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 significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951).

    Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

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Filmography of

Jean Renoir

Found 36 Movies in total

... 1974

... 1962

... 1960

... 1959

... 1956

French Cancan

Adaptation

... 1954

... 1952

The River

Screenplay

... 1951

... 1947

A Day in the Country

Père Poulain ( Actor )

Writer

... 1946

... 1946

... 1945

... 1943

... 1943

Swamp Water

Director

... 1941

Tosca

Co-director

... 1941

The Rules of the Game

Octave ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1939

La Bête Humaine

Cabuche ( Actor )

Writer

... 1938

... 1938

Grand Illusion

Screenplay

... 1937

... 1936

Life Is Ours

Le patron du bistrot ( Actor )

Writer

... 1936

... 1936

Toni

Author

... 1935

Madame Bovary

Screenplay

... 1934

... 1933

... 1932

... 1932

La Chienne

Screenplay

... 1931

Le Bled

Director

... 1929

The Tournament

Adaptation

... 1928

... 1928

Backbiters

le sous-préfet ( Actor )

Editor

... 1927

Marquitta

Adaptation

... 1927

Nana

Director

... 1926

Whirlpool of Fate

Set Decoration

... 1925