Jean Cocteau
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.
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Acting
Movie
Beauty and the Beast
as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
1946
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Orpheus
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1950
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The Blood of a Poet
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1932
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To Each His Own Cinema
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
2007
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Testament of Orpheus
as Le poète
1960
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The Strange Ones
as Narrator (voice)
1950
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The Image Book
as (archive footage)
2018
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The Storm Within
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1948
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Venom and Eternity
as Self
1952
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La Villa Santo-Sospir
as Self
1952
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8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957
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America as Seen by a Frenchman
as Narrator (Afterword)
1960
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The Phantom Baron
as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
1943
TV
Around the World with Orson Welles
as Self (archive footage)
1955
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A Night at the Opera
as Self (archive footage)
2020
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Disorder
as Self
1950
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Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
as Self (archive footage)
1984
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Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
as Self
1962
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La Malibran
as Alfred de Musset
1944
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Callas Assoluta
as Self (archive footage)
2007
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Eine Melodie - vier Maler
as Self
1955
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Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
as Self (archive footage)
2018
TV
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
Movie
It Happened on the 36 Candles
as Self (uncredited)
1957
Crew
Movie
Beauty and the Beast
Screenplay
1946
Movie
Orpheus
Director
1950
Movie
The Human Voice
Theatre Play
2020
Movie
The Blood of a Poet
Director
1932
Movie
Testament of Orpheus
Writer
1960
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The Strange Ones
Novel
1950
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Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Dialogue
1945
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L'Amore
Theatre Play
1948
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The Eternal Return
Screenplay
1943
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The Storm Within
Director
1948
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The Mystery of Oberwald
Theatre Play
1981
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Human Voice
Story
2014