Actor

Jean Cocteau

Directing

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Movies: 87Series: 5Crew credits: 56

TMDB ID: 9730

IMDb ID: nm0168413

Known for: Directing

Born: July 5, 1889

Died: October 11, 1963

Age: 74

Place of birth: Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1925 - 2024

Years active: 100

Average TMDB rating: 6.78

Wikidata: Q83158

Also known as

장 콕토 • Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau

Other jobs

Writer (21)Theatre Play (9)Story (8)Director (7)Adaptation (2)Dialogue (2)Original Story (2)Screenplay (2)

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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 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.