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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Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-07-05
Place of birth
Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Beauty and the Beast
1946
7.52
It Happened on the 36 Candles
1957
2.00
Testament of Orpheus
1960
7.70
The Strange Ones
1950
6.66
Venom and Eternity
1952
6.70
La Malibran
1944
5.70
The Image Book
2018
6.36
Orpheus
1950
7.65
Daughter of the Sands
1949
10.00
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925
0.00
In This Atrocious Garden
1964
10.00
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964
0.00
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967
0.00
Steel Cathedrals
1985
0.00
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006
0.00
Callas Assoluta
2007
6.50
America as Seen by a Frenchman
1960
6.40
Beyond the Riviera
1960
0.00
Daedalus
2024
10.00
Jean Cocteau
2024
0.00
The Century Is Fifty
1950
0.00
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997
0.00
Black Friendship
1946
0.00
La Villa Santo-Sospir
1952
7.20
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
1955
5.00
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018
7.20
The Blood of a Poet
1932
7.13
Musée Grévin
1958
0.00
The Phantom Baron
1943
6.10
The Storm Within
1948
6.50
Disorder
1950
5.00
A Night at the Opera
2020
6.40
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
6.50
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996
0.00
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001
7.50