Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

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...

Known For

Cast Credits

To Each His Own Cinema

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

The Infernal Machine

as Self (voice)

It Happened on the 36 Candles

as Self (uncredited)

Orpheus

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

The Strange Ones

as Narrator (voice)

Daughter of the Sands

as Narrator (voice)

The Storm Within

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Beauty and the Beast

as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)

La Malibran

as Alfred de Musset

The Phantom Baron

as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme

The Blood of a Poet

as Bit Part (uncredited)

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