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