Directing · Paris, France · Born September 15, 1894
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.
MovieThe Emma Bovary Trial
2021
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
MovieLe Parti du cinéma
2021
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
MovieQuand Jean devint Renoir
2017
as Self (archive footage)
MovieFrançois Truffaut l'insoumis
2014
as Self (archive footage)
MovieCinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
2012
as Self
MovieUn tournage à la campagne
1994
as Self
MovieJean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
as Self (archive footage)
La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
1987
as Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974
as The Narrator/Host
MovieThe Christian Licorice Store
1971
as Self
MovieLanglois
1970
as Self
MoviePostface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
1969
as Jean Renoir
MovieDirecting Actors by Jean Renoir
1969
as Self
MovieD'un Céline l'autre
1969
as Self
MovieLouis Lumière
1968
as Self
MovieJean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
1967
as Self
MovieJean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967
as Self - Interviewee
MovieJean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
1967
as Self
MovieJean Renoir parle de son art
1961
as Interviewee
TVDiscorama
1959
as Self
MovieL'album de famille de Jean Renoir
1956
as Self
TVCinépanorama
1956
as Self
MovieA Day in the Country
1946
as Père Poulain
MovieThe Rules of the Game
1939
as Octave
MovieLa Bête Humaine
1938
as Cabuche
MovieThe Spanish Earth
1937
as Narrator (voice)
MovieLife Is Ours
1936
as Le patron du bistrot
MovieMam'zelle Nitouche
1931
as Master sergeant (uncredited)
MovieThe Pursuit of Happiness
1930
MovieLittle Red Riding Hood
1930
as Compère le Loup
MovieBackbiters
1927
as le sous-préfet
MovieLa P’tite Lili
1927
as Man with Bowler Hat
MovieCharleston Parade
1927
as Angel
MovieThose of Our Land
1915
as Self
