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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. Cocteau is best known for his novels Le Grand Écart (1923), Le Livre Blanc (1928), and Les Enfants Terribles (1929); the stage plays La Voix Humaine (1930), La Machine Infernale (1934), Les Parents terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946); and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), from his own eponymous piéce, Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1949), and Testament of Orpheus (1960), which alongside Blood of a Poet and Orpheus constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy. He was described as "one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers" by AllMovie.
Birth Name
Jean Maurice Eugène Cocteau
Born
Friday, 05 July 1889
Died
Friday, 11 October 1963
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Godard Cinema | Self | 2023 |
| Alain Resnais, l'audacieux | Self | 2022 |
| A Night at the Opera | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2021 |
| The Image Book | Un acteur | 2018 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Maria By Callas | Himself (archive footage) | 2017 |
| Cocteau Marais - Un couple mythique | Self | 2013 |
| Il est minuit, Paris s'éveille | Self | 2012 |
| Two in the Wave | Self | 2010 |
| Callas assoluta | Self / Himself | 2007 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 | 1962 |
| Testament of Orpheus | 1960 |
| 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements | 1957 |
| La villa Santo Sospir | 1952 |
| Orpheus | 1950 |
| The Terrible Parents | 1948 |
| The Eagle with Two Heads | 1948 |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1946 |
| The Blood of a Poet | 1932 |
