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person_profile-Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau Died at age: 74

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jean Cocteau

Date of Birth:

Jul 05, 1889

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Oct 11, 1963

Biography of

Jean Cocteau

    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.

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Jean Cocteau

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Filmography of

Jean Cocteau

Found 8 Movies in total

Testament of Orpheus

Self, the Poet ( Actor )

Writer

... 1960

... 1957

Orpheus

Narrator (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1950

The Storm Within

Narrator (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1948

... 1948

Beauty and the Beast

Voice of Magic (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1946

The Blood of a Poet

Bit Part (uncredited) ( Actor )

Editor

... 1932