Jean Cocteau

from Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

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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.

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Timeline

2026Aged 137

  • Poster for Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2024Aged 135

  • Poster for Daedalus

    Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Jean Cocteau

    Self (archive footage)

2022Aged 133

  • Poster for Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Original Story

  • Poster for Les parents terribles

    Dialogue

2021Aged 132

  • Poster for Morceaux de Cannes

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Correspondances : Jean Cocteau - Pablo Picasso

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Story

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Writer

2020Aged 131

  • Poster for Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for A Night at the Opera

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Theatre Play

  • Poster for The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times

    Story

2019Aged 130

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Writer

2018Aged 129

  • Poster for The Image Book

    (archive footage)

  • Poster for Art of Style: Jean Cocteau

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Writer

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Story

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Theatre Play

  • Poster for Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    Writer

2016Aged 127

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Story

  • Poster for The Eagle with Two Heads

    Original Story

2014Aged 125

  • Poster for Human Voice

    Story

2013Aged 124

  • Poster for Opium

    Writer

2011Aged 122

  • Poster for Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma

    Self (archive footage)

2009Aged 120

  • Poster for Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments

    Self (archive footage)

  • Blues

    Theatre Play

2007Aged 118

  • Poster for To Each His Own Cinema

    Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)

  • Poster for Callas Assoluta

    Self (archive footage)

2006Aged 117

  • Poster for Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf

    (Unknown)

2003Aged 114

  • Poster for Cocteau and Company

    Himself

2002Aged 113

  • Poster for Beautiful

    Theatre Play

2001Aged 112

  • Poster for Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

    Self (archive footage)

1999Aged 110

  • Poster for La Voix Humaine

    Writer

1997Aged 108

  • Poster for Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

    Self (archive footage)

1996Aged 107

  • Poster for Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

    Self

1993Aged 104

  • Poster for Oedipus Rex

    Writer

1992Aged 103

  • Poster for Edwige Feuillère en scène

    Writer

1991Aged 102

1990Aged 101

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Writer

1989Aged 100

  • Poster for La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte

    Writer

1988Aged 99

1985Aged 96

1984Aged 95

  • Poster for Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown

    Self (archive footage)

1981Aged 92

  • Poster for The Mystery of Oberwald

    Theatre Play

1979Aged 90

1978Aged 89

  • Poster for Le Bel Indifférent

    Writer

  • Poster for La Voce Umana

    Story

1975Aged 86

1971Aged 82

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Book

1967Aged 78

1966Aged 77

  • Poster for The Human Voice

    Theatre Play

1965Aged 76

1964Aged 75

  • Poster for Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau

    Self

  • Poster for In This Atrocious Garden

    Narrator (voice)

1963Aged 74

  • Poster for The Infernal Machine

    Self (voice)

1962Aged 73

  • Poster for In Search of Marcel Proust

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000

    Self

  • Poster for Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir

    Self

1961Aged 72

  • Poster for Princess of Cleves

    Writer

1960Aged 71

  • Poster for Testament of Orpheus

    Le poète

  • Poster for America as Seen by a Frenchman

    Narrator (Afterword)

  • Poster for Beyond the Riviera

    (Unknown)

1959Aged 70

  • Poster for Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau

    Himself

1958Aged 69

  • Poster for Musée Grévin

    Self, a director

  • Poster for Anna the Maid

    Writer

  • Poster for Anna the Maid

    Writer

  • Poster for Le Bel Indifférent

    Theatre Play

1957Aged 68

  • Poster for 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

    Director

  • Poster for It Happened on the 36 Candles

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for Django Reinhardt

    Writer

1955Aged 66

1954Aged 65

1953Aged 64

  • Poster for Intimate Relations

    Theatre Play

1952Aged 63

  • Poster for Venom and Eternity

    Self

  • Poster for La Villa Santo-Sospir

    Self

1951Aged 62

  • Poster for Colette

    Himself

  • Poster for Black Crown

    Writer

1950Aged 61

  • Poster for The Century Is Fifty

    Self

  • Poster for The Strange Ones

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Orpheus

    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Disorder

    Self

1949Aged 60

  • Poster for Daughter of the Sands

    Narrator (voice)

1948Aged 59

  • Poster for The Storm Within

    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Queen's Lover

    Adaptation

  • Poster for The Eagle with Two Heads

    Theatre Play

  • Poster for L'Amore

    Theatre Play

1947Aged 58

1946Aged 57

1945Aged 56

  • Poster for Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

    Dialogue

1944Aged 55

  • Poster for La Malibran

    Alfred de Musset

  • Poster for From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain

    Reciter (voice)

1943Aged 54

  • Poster for The Phantom Baron

    Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme

  • Poster for The Eternal Return

    Screenplay

1942Aged 53

  • Poster for The Four-Poster Bed

    Screenplay

1940Aged 51

  • Poster for Comedy of Happiness

    Adaptation

1932Aged 43

  • Poster for The Blood of a Poet

    Bit Part (uncredited)

1925Aged 36

  • Poster for Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema

    Director

Year unknown

  • Poster for Parade

    Writer

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