Jean Renoir
52 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Sep 15, 1894
- Died
- Feb 12, 1979 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Also known as
- 장 르누아르 · ジャン・ルノワール
Biography
Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962).
In the 1930s, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films reflect the movement's left-wing politics and deal with social issues as well as class disparities. He was perhaps the most significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951).
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Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Jean Renoir: movies and TV shows
Acting (14)
- 1974 The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
as The Narrator/Host
- 1969 Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
as Jean Renoir
- 1961 Jean Renoir parle de son art
as Interviewee
- 1946 A Day in the Country
as Père Poulain
- 1939 The Rules of the Game
as Octave
- 1938 La Bête Humaine
as Cabuche
- 1937 The Spanish Earth
as Narrator (voice)
- 1936 Life Is Ours
as Le patron du bistrot
- 1931 Mam'zelle Nitouche
as Master sergeant (uncredited)
- 1930
- 1930 Little Red Riding Hood
as Compère le Loup
- 1927 Backbiters
as le sous-préfet
- 1927 La P’tite Lili
as Man with Bowler Hat
- 1927 Charleston Parade
as Angel
Behind the camera (47)
- 1978 Renoir, My Father
Book
- 1977
- 1974 The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Director, Writer
- 1973 Carola
Writer
- 1962 The Elusive Corporal
Director, Writer
- 1960 Experiment in Evil
Producer, Screenplay, Director
- 1959 Picnic on the Grass
Director, Screenplay
- 1956 Elena and Her Men
Director, Writer
- 1955 French Cancan
Director, Adaptation, Writer
- 1952 The Golden Coach
Director, Screenplay
- 1951 The River
Screenplay, Director, Producer
- 1950 The Ways of Love
Director
- 1947 The Woman on the Beach
Director, Screenplay
- 1946 A Day in the Country
Director, Writer
- 1946 The Diary of a Chambermaid
Director
- 1945 The Southerner
Director, Writer
- 1944 A Salute to France
Director, Screenplay
- 1943 This Land Is Mine
Director, Producer, Screenplay
- 1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Co-Director
- 1941 Swamp Water
Director
- 1941 Tosca
Co-Director
- 1940 Cristobal's Gold
Dialogue
- 1939 The Rules of the Game
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 1938 La Bête Humaine
Director, Screenplay
- 1938 La Marseillaise
Writer, Director, Producer
- 1937 Grand Illusion
Director, Writer
- 1936 The Lower Depths
Director, Writer
- 1936 Life Is Ours
Director, Writer
- 1936 The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Screenplay, Director
- 1935 Toni
Author, Director, Screenplay
- 1935 A Bum Deal
Director
- 1934 Madame Bovary
Director, Screenplay
- 1933 Chotard and Co.
Director, Writer
- 1932 Boudu Saved from Drowning
Director, Screenplay
- 1932 Night at the Crossroads
Director, Screenplay
- 1931 La Chienne
Director, Screenplay
- 1931 Baby's Laxative
Writer, Director
- 1930 Little Red Riding Hood
Writer, Producer
- 1929 Le Bled
Director
- 1928 The Tournament
Director, Adaptation
- 1928 The Sad Sack
Director, Writer
- 1928 The Little Match Girl
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1927 Backbiters
Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor
- 1927 Marquitta
Director, Adaptation
- 1927 Charleston Parade
Director
- 1926 Nana
Director, Producer
- 1925 Whirlpool of Fate
Director, Producer, Set Decoration
Talk shows and appearances (21)
- 2021
- 2021
- 2017
- 2014
- 2012
- 1994
- 1993
- 1987
- 1978 Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
3 episodes
- 1971
- 1970
- 1969
- 1969
- 1968
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967
- 1959 Discorama
1 episode
- 1956
- 1956 Cinépanorama
1 episode
- 1915