Jean Renoir
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.
Acting
Movie
The Rules of the Game
as Octave
1939
Movie
La Bête Humaine
as Cabuche
1938
Movie
A Day in the Country
as Père Poulain
1946
Movie
Charleston Parade
as Angel
1927
Movie
The Spanish Earth
as Narrator (voice)
1937
Movie
La P’tite Lili
as Man with Bowler Hat
1927
Movie
Life Is Ours
as Le patron du bistrot
1936
Movie
Louis Lumière
as Self
1968
Movie
Backbiters
as le sous-préfet
1927
Movie
Those of Our Land
as Self
1915
Movie
The Christian Licorice Store
as Self
1971
Movie
The Emma Bovary Trial
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
Movie
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
as The Narrator/Host
1974
Movie
Mam'zelle Nitouche
as Master sergeant (uncredited)
1931
Movie
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
as Self
1969
Movie
Langlois
as Self
1970
Movie
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
as Self - Interviewee
1967
Movie
François Truffaut l'insoumis
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Movie
Le Parti du cinéma
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
TV
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
Movie
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Self (archive footage)
1993
Movie
Un tournage à la campagne
as Self
1994
Movie
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
as Self
1967
Movie
Little Red Riding Hood
as Compère le Loup
1930
Crew
Movie
Grand Illusion
Director
1937
Movie
The Rules of the Game
Screenplay
1939
Movie
La Bête Humaine
Director
1938
Movie
A Day in the Country
Director
1946
Movie
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Director
1932
Movie
La Chienne
Director
1931
Movie
The River
Director
1951
Movie
French Cancan
Adaptation
1955
Movie
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Screenplay
1936
Movie
The Golden Coach
Director
1952
Movie
The Lower Depths
Director
1936
Movie
Toni
Author
1935