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