Jean Cocteau
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-07-05 (74 years old)
Deathday
1963-10-11
Place of Birth
Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Also known As
장 콕토
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
Biography
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, Marí...
Acting
1946
as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
1957
as Self (uncredited)
1960
as The Poet
1950
as Narrator (voice)
1952
as Self
1944
as Alfred de Musset
2018
as (archive footage)
1944
as Reciter (voice)
1950
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1949
as Narrator (voice)
1984
as Self (archive footage)
1962
1964
as Narrator (voice)
1964
1967
as Self (archive footage)
1985
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
1959
2009
as Self (archive footage)
2006
as Self (archive footage)
2007
as Self (archive footage)
1960
as Narrator (Afterword)
-
as Himself
2024
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
2024
as Self (archive footage)
1950
as Self
1997
as Self (archive footage)
1946
as Narrator
1952
as Self
1955
as Self
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1932
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1958
as Self, a director
1943
as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
1948
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1962
1950
as Self
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2007
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
1996
as Self
2001
as himself (archive)
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1946
as Screenplay
1946
as Dialogue
1946
as Story
1946
as Director
1925
as Director
1950
as Director
1960
as Writer
1960
as Director
1932
as Director
1932
as Writer
1948
as Director
1950
as Novel
1988
as Theatre Play
1965
as Author
1965
as Scenario Writer
1965
as Dialogue
1952
as Director
1964
as Writer
1962
as Director
1962
as Writer
1948
as Director
1948
as Writer
1965
as Theatre Play
2014
as Story
1951
as Writer
1991
as Writer
1958
as Writer
1979
as Original Story
1948
as Writer
1978
as Writer
2021
as Writer
1979
as Story
2021
as Story
1978
as Story
2018
as Story
2020
2016
as Story
1985
as Story
1953
as Theatre Play
1948
as Novel
1943
as Screenplay
1961
as Writer
1932
as Editor
2018
as Writer
1981
as Theatre Play
2009
as Theatre Play
1947
as Director
1954
as Screenplay
1950
as Writer
1958
as Theatre Play
1971
as Book
1957
as Writer
2002
as Theatre Play
1957
as Director
1940
as Adaptation
1945
as Dialogue
1961
as Adaptation
2013
as Writer
1990
as Writer
1992
as Writer
1966
as Theatre Play
1950
as Writer
1942
as Screenplay
1946
as Writer
2022
as Original Story
1958
as Writer
2019
as Writer
1948
as Theatre Play
1975
as Theatre Play
1948
as Adaptation
2020
as Theatre Play
1943
as Writer
2018
as Theatre Play
1993
as Writer
2022
as Writer
1989
-
as Writer
1999
as Writer
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