Actor
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 associat ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Jean Cocteau | Self (archive footage)
2024 -- Daedalus | Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
2020 -- A Night at the Opera | Self (archive footage)
2020 -- Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer | Self (archive footage)
2018 -- Art of Style: Jean Cocteau | Self (archive footage)
2018 -- The Image Book | (archive footage)
2009 -- Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments | Self (archive footage)
2007 -- Callas Assoluta | Self (archive footage)
2007 -- To Each His Own Cinema | Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
2006 -- Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or | self
1997 -- Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths | Self (archive footage)
1996 -- Great Writers: Jean Cocteau | Self
1985 -- Steel Cathedrals | Self (voice) (archive footage)
1984 -- Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown | Self (archive footage)
1967 -- Disorder Is 20 Years Old | Self (archive footage)
1964 -- In This Atrocious Garden | Narrator (voice)
1964 -- Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau | Self
1962 -- Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir | Self
1962 -- Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 | Self
1960 -- Beyond the Riviera |
1960 -- America as Seen by a Frenchman | Narrator (Afterword)
1960 -- Testament of Orpheus | The Poet
1959 -- Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau | Himself
1958 -- Musée Grévin | Self, a director
1957 -- It Happened on the 36 Candles | Self (uncredited)
1957 -- 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements |
1955 -- Eine Melodie - vier Maler | Self
1952 -- La Villa Santo-Sospir | Self
1952 -- Venom and Eternity | Self
1950 -- Disorder | Self
1950 -- Orpheus | Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1950 -- The Strange Ones | Narrator (voice)
1950 -- The Century Is Fifty | Self
1949 -- Daughter of the Sands | Narrator (voice)
1948 -- The Storm Within | Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1946 -- Beauty and the Beast | The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
1946 -- Black Friendship | Narrator
1944 -- From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain | Reciter (voice)
1944 -- La Malibran | Alfred de Musset
1943 -- The Phantom Baron | Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
1932 -- The Blood of a Poet | Bit Part (uncredited)
1925 -- Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema |
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