1889-07-05 ( 135 years old ) in Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
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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Movies
Jean Cocteau
2024-08-29
Daedalus
2024-07-17
A Night at the Opera
2020-09-29
Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020-02-29
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018-12-06
The Image Book
2018-10-11
Callas Assoluta
2007-12-20
To Each His Own Cinema
2007-10-31
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006-01-01
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997-02-22
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996-07-05
Steel Cathedrals
1985-05-17
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984-11-15
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967-06-06
In This Atrocious Garden
1964-12-14
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964-02-11
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
1962-06-23
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962-06-12
Beyond the Riviera
1960-10-24
America as Seen by a Frenchman
1960-06-08
Testament of Orpheus
1960-02-18
Musée Grévin
1958-01-01
It Happened on the 36 Candles
1957-10-16
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957-03-15
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
1955-01-02
La Villa Santo-Sospir
1952-12-05
Venom and Eternity
1952-01-25
Disorder
1950-12-02
Orpheus
1950-09-29
The Strange Ones
1950-03-29
The Century Is Fifty
1950-03-16
Daughter of the Sands
1949-01-11
The Storm Within
1948-12-01
Beauty and the Beast
1946-10-29
Black Friendship
1946-07-14
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944-05-04
La Malibran
1944-05-03
The Phantom Baron
1943-06-16
The Blood of a Poet
1932-01-20
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925-01-01
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