Jean Cocteau

Director

Born: July 5, 1889
Died: October 11, 1963 (age 74)
From: Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

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…

Filmography (53)

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean Cocteau (2024)
Self (archive footage)
Daedalus (2024)
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur (2022)
Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
A Night at the Opera (2020)
Self (archive footage)
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer (2020)
Self (archive footage)
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau (2018)
Self (archive footage)
The Image Book (2018)
(archive footage)
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma (2011)
Self (archive footage)
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments (2009)
Self (archive footage)
Callas Assoluta (2007)
Self (archive footage)
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf (2006)
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or (2006)
Self (archive footage)
Cocteau and Company (2003)
Himself
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste (2001)
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths (1997)
Self (archive footage)
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau (1996)
Self
Steel Cathedrals
Steel Cathedrals (1985)
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown (1984)
Self (archive footage)
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Disorder Is 20 Years Old (1967)
Self (archive footage)
In This Atrocious Garden (1964)
Narrator (voice)
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau (1964)
Self
The Infernal Machine (1963)
Self (voice)
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir (1962)
Self
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 (1962)
Director
In Search of Marcel Proust (1962)
Beyond the Riviera (1960)
America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960)
Narrator (Afterword)