Directing · Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France · Born July 5, 1889
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Cocteau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
MovieProust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieJean Cocteau
2024
as Self (archive footage)
MovieDaedalus
2024
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
MovieCharles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMorceaux de Cannes
2021
MovieA Night at the Opera
2020
as Self (archive footage)
MovieCocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020
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MovieArt of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Image Book
2018
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MovieLes Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
2011
as Self (archive footage)
MovieIran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009
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MovieCallas Assoluta
2007
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MovieTo Each His Own Cinema
2007
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
MovieThe Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
MovieJean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006
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MovieCocteau and Company
2003
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MovieJean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001
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MovieJean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997
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MovieGreat Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996
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Steel Cathedrals
1985
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
MovieJean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967
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MovieIn This Atrocious Garden
1964
as Narrator (voice)
TVPour le plaisir
1964
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MoviePortrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964
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MovieThe Infernal Machine
1963
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MovieMarcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
1962
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MovieJean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962
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MovieIn Search of Marcel Proust
1962
MovieBeyond the Riviera
1960
MovieAmerica as Seen by a Frenchman
1960
as Narrator (Afterword)
MovieTestament of Orpheus
1960
as Le poète
MovieToute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
1959
as Himself
TVDiscorama
1959
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MovieMusée Grévin
1958
as Self, a director
MovieIt Happened on the 36 Candles
1957
as Self (uncredited)
Movie8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957
TVEn direct de...
1956
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TVCinépanorama
1956
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TVAround the World with Orson Welles
1955
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Eine Melodie - vier Maler
1955
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TVReflets de Cannes
1954
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MovieLa Villa Santo-Sospir
1952
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MovieVenom and Eternity
1952
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MovieDisorder
1950
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MovieOrpheus
1950
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
MovieThe Strange Ones
1950
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MovieThe Century Is Fifty
1950
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MovieDaughter of the Sands
1949
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Storm Within
1948
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
MovieBeauty and the Beast
1946
as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Black Friendship
1946
as Narrator
MovieFrom Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944
as Reciter (voice)
MovieLa Malibran
1944
as Alfred de Musset
MovieThe Phantom Baron
1943
as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
MovieThe Blood of a Poet
1932
as Bit Part (uncredited)
MovieJean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925
