Jean Cocteau
Directing
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Acting Credits
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Directed
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 associat...
Known For
Filmography
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Daedalus
2024
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
A Night at the Opera
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The Image Book
2018
as (archive footage)
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Callas Assoluta
2007
as Self (archive footage)
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
Cocteau and Company
2003
as Himself
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996
as Self
Steel Cathedrals
1985
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984
as Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967
as Self (archive footage)
In This Atrocious Garden
1964
as Narrator (voice)
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964
as Self
Pour le plaisir
1964
as Self
The Infernal Machine
1963
as Self (voice)
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962
as Self
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
1962
as Self
In Search of Marcel Proust
1962
Testament of Orpheus
1960
as Le poète
America as Seen by a Frenchman
1960
as Narrator (Afterword)
Beyond the Riviera
1960
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
1959
as Himself
Discorama
1959
as Self
Musée Grévin
1958
as Self, a director
It Happened on the 36 Candles
1957
as Self (uncredited)
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957
Cinépanorama
1956
as Self
En direct de...
1956
as self
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
1955
as Self
Around the World with Orson Welles
1955
as Self (archive footage)
Reflets de Cannes
1954
as Self
Venom and Eternity
1952
as Self
La Villa Santo-Sospir
1952
as Self
Colette
1951
as Himself
The Strange Ones
1950
as Narrator (voice)
Orpheus
1950
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Century Is Fifty
1950
as Self
Disorder
1950
as Self
Daughter of the Sands
1949
as Narrator (voice)
The Storm Within
1948
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Beauty and the Beast
1946
as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Black Friendship
1946
as Narrator
La Malibran
1944
as Alfred de Musset
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944
as Reciter (voice)
The Phantom Baron
1943
as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
The Blood of a Poet
1932
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925