Jean Renoir

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1894-09-15 (85 years old)

Deathday

1979-02-12

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Jean Renoir

Biography

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 ...

Acting

2021

The Emma Bovary Trial

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

1938

1946

A Day in the Country

as Père Poulain

1931

Mam'zelle Nitouche

as Master sergeant (uncredited)

1927

1937

The Spanish Earth

as Narrator (voice)

1968

1927

Backbiters

as le sous-préfet

1930

Little Red Riding Hood

as Compère le Loup

1970

Langlois

as Self

2014

François Truffaut l'insoumis

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Quand Jean devint Renoir

as Self (archive footage)

1936

Life Is Ours

as Le patron du bistrot

2021

Le Parti du cinéma

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Production

1939

1939

1937

Grand Illusion

as Director

1937

Grand Illusion

as Screenplay

1960

1960

Experiment in Evil

as Screenplay

1960

1931

La Chienne

as Director

1928

1938

La Bête Humaine

as Director

1962

1959

1934

Madame Bovary

as Director

1947

1947

1955

French Cancan

as Director

1955

French Cancan

as Adaptation

1941

Swamp Water

as Director

1951

The River

as Director

1951

The River

as Screenplay

1945

The Southerner

as Director

1945

1943

1946

1936

Life Is Ours

as Director

1936

The Lower Depths

as Director

1926

Nana

as Director

1935

Toni

as Director

1935

Toni

as Author

1928

The Sad Sack

as Director

1956

1952

The Golden Coach

as Director

1927

1928

The Tournament

as Director

1928

The Tournament

as Adaptation

1929

Le Bled

as Director

1931

Baby's Laxative

as Director

1931

1927

Backbiters

as Director

1925

1944

1956

1930

1952

The Golden Coach

as Screenplay

1931

La Chienne

as Screenplay

1941

Tosca

as Co-Director

1935

A Bum Deal

as Director

1955

French Cancan

as Writer

1944

A Salute to France

as Screenplay

1943

1925

1925

Whirlpool of Fate

as Set Decoration

1938

La Bête Humaine

as Screenplay

1927

Marquitta

as Director

1927

Marquitta

as Adaptation

1936

1943

This Land Is Mine

as Screenplay

1943

1926

Nana

as Producer

1959

Picnic on the Grass

as Screenplay

1933

Chotard and Co.

as Director

1951

The River

as Producer

1939

1933

1928

1932

1928

The Sad Sack

as Writer

1938

1973

Carola

as Writer

1938

La Marseillaise

as Director

1940

Cristobal's Gold

as Dialogue

1934

Madame Bovary

as Screenplay

1932

1927

Backbiters

as Screenplay

1927

Backbiters

as Producer

1927

Backbiters

as Editor

1936

Life Is Ours

as Writer

1938

La Marseillaise

as Producer

1950

The Ways of Love

as Director

1935

Toni

as Screenplay

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