Cast & creator
Jean Cocteau
Best known for Discorama, Cinépanorama, Reflets de Cannes
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.
Also known as: 장 콕토, Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
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Filmography (142)
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Discorama
Self
1959
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Reflets de Cannes
Self
1954Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1978
Pour le plaisir
Self
1964
Beauty and the Beast
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
1946Beauty and the Beast
Dialogue
1946Beauty and the Beast
Director
1946Beauty and the Beast
Screenplay
1946Beauty and the Beast
Story
1946
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
2007
En direct de...
self
1956
Orpheus
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1950Orpheus
Director
1950Orpheus
Writer
1950
The Image Book
(archive footage)
2018
The Human Voice
Theatre Play
2020
Testament of Orpheus
Le poète
1960Testament of Orpheus
Director
1960Testament of Orpheus
Writer
1960
Around the World with Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
1955
Django Reinhardt
Writer
1957
The Queen's Lover
Adaptation
1948
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2026
The Eagle with Two Heads
Writer
1948The Eagle with Two Heads
Director
1948The Eagle with Two Heads
Theatre Play
1948
The Blood of a Poet
Bit Part (uncredited)
1932The Blood of a Poet
Director
1932The Blood of a Poet
Writer
1932The Blood of a Poet
Editor
1932
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Dialogue
1945
Morceaux de Cannes
2021Ľudský hlas
Theatre Play
1965
La Malibran
Alfred de Musset
1944
Callas Assoluta
Self (archive footage)
2007Pantomimes
Screenplay
1954
Disorder
Self
1950
The Mystery of Oberwald
Theatre Play
1981
The Century Is Fifty
Self
1950
Edwige Feuillère en scène
Writer
1992
Princess of Cleves
Writer
1961Princess of Cleves
Adaptation
1961
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
2018
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
2020
Colette
Himself
1951
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self (archive footage)
1997
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
Self (archive footage)
2011
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Reciter (voice)
1944
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Self (uncredited)
1957Oidipus Rex
Opera
1988
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Self (archive footage)
2006L'aigle à deux têtes
Theatre Play
1975Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Self (archive footage)
1967
In Search of Marcel Proust
1962
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Self (archive footage)
2001La macchina da scrivere
Creator
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
19578 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
Director
1957
Le Bel Indifférent
Theatre Play
1958
Opium
Writer
2013
Venom and Eternity
Self
1952
The Strange Ones
Narrator (voice)
1950The Strange Ones
Novel
1950The Strange Ones
Writer
1950
Comedy of Happiness
Adaptation
1940
The Four-Poster Bed
Screenplay
1942
Parade
Writer
Merlín
Writer
1991Eine Melodie - vier Maler
Self
1955
Les parents terribles
Writer
2022Les parents terribles
Dialogue
2022
Daughter of the Sands
Narrator (voice)
1949
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Narrator (Afterword)
1960
The Human Voice
Theatre Play
2018
The Storm Within
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1948The Storm Within
Director
1948The Storm Within
Writer
1948
Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage)
2024
Musée Grévin
Self, a director
1958
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Self
1952La Villa Santo-Sospir
Director
1952
Beautiful
Theatre Play
2002
The Phantom Baron
Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
1943The Phantom Baron
Writer
1943
The Eternal Return
Screenplay
1943
Oedipus Rex
Writer
1993
Thomas the Impostor
Scenario Writer
1965Thomas the Impostor
Author
1965Thomas the Impostor
Dialogue
1965La Dame de Monte-Carlo
Original Story
1979
L'Amore
Theatre Play
1948
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
Self
1996
Daedalus
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
2024
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Self
1962
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Self (archive footage)
2022
Black Crown
Writer
1951
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Human Voice
Story
2018
The Human Voice
Theatre Play
1966
In This Atrocious Garden
Narrator (voice)
1964In This Atrocious Garden
Writer
1964
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
Writer
2018
Anna the Maid
Writer
1958
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
The Infernal Machine
Self (voice)
1963The Infernal Machine
Theatre Play
1963
Le Bel Indifférent
Writer
1978
The Human Voice
Original Story
2022
La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte
Writer
1989
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
Self (archive footage)
2020
The Human Voice
Writer
2021
The Human Voice
Story
2016
The Human Voice
Story
1979
Human Voice
Story
2014
The Human Voice
Book
1971
The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
Story
2020
The Human Voice
Story
2021
The Human Voice
Writer
2018
The Human Voice
Story
1985
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Self
1964Rhythm of Africa
Director
1947
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Self (archive footage)
1984
The Human Voice
Writer
2019Black Friendship
Narrator
1946Black Friendship
Writer
1946
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Self
1962Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Writer
1962Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Director
1962
The Human Voice
Writer
1990
La Voix Humaine
Writer
1999
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
Director
1925
Intimate Relations
Theatre Play
1953Steel Cathedrals
Self (voice) (archive footage)
1985
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Himself
1959
The Eagle with Two Heads
Original Story
2016
Beyond the Riviera
1960Blues
Theatre Play
2009
Anna the Maid
Writer
1958
Cocteau and Company
Himself
2003
La Voce Umana
Story
1978