Jean Cocteau

Directing · Born 1889-07-05 in Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

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, 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…

Filmography

• Beauty and the Beast as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
• It Happened on the 36 Candles as Self (uncredited)
• Testament of Orpheus as The Poet
• The Strange Ones as Narrator (voice)
• Venom and Eternity as Self
• La Malibran as Alfred de Musset
• The Image Book as (archive footage)
• Orpheus as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Daughter of the Sands as Narrator (voice)
• 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements