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.

Filmography

• 2024Daedalus — Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
• 2022Les parents terribles — Writer, Dialogue
• 2022The Human Voice — Original Story
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes
• 2021The Human Voice — Writer
• 2021The Human Voice — Story
• 2020The Human Voice — Theatre Play
• 2020The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times — Story
• 2019The Human Voice — Writer
• 2018Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle — Writer
• 2018The Human Voice — Story
• 2018The Human Voice — Writer
• 2018The Human Voice — Theatre Play
• 2018The Image Book — (archive footage)
• 2016The Eagle with Two Heads — Original Story
• 2016The Human Voice — Story
• 2014Human Voice — Story
• 2013Opium — Writer
• 2009Blues — Theatre Play
• 2006The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
• 2002Beautiful — Theatre Play
• 1999La Voix Humaine — Writer
• 1993Oedipus Rex — Writer
• 1992Edwige Feuillère en scène — Writer
• 1991Merlín — Writer
• 1990The Human Voice — Writer
• 1989La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte — Writer
• 1988Oidipus Rex — Opera
• 1985The Human Voice — Story
• 1981The Mystery of Oberwald — Theatre Play
• 1979La Dame de Monte-Carlo — Original Story
• 1979The Human Voice — Story
• 1978La Voce Umana — Story
• 1978Le Bel Indifférent — Writer
• 1975L'aigle à deux têtes — Theatre Play
• 1971The Human Voice — Book
• 1966The Human Voice — Theatre Play
• 1965Thomas the Impostor — Scenario Writer, Author, Dialogue
• 1965Ľudský hlas — Theatre Play
• 1964In This Atrocious Garden — Narrator (voice), Writer
• 1963The Infernal Machine — Self (voice), Theatre Play
• 1962In Search of Marcel Proust
• 1962Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 — Self, Director, Writer
• 1961Princess of Cleves — Writer, Adaptation
• 1960America as Seen by a Frenchman — Narrator (Afterword)
• 1960Beyond the Riviera
• 1960Testament of Orpheus — Le poète, Director, Writer
• 1958Anna the Maid — Writer
• 1958Anna the Maid — Writer
• 1958Le Bel Indifférent — Theatre Play
• 1958Musée Grévin — Self, a director
• 19578 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements — Director
• 1957Django Reinhardt — Writer
• 1954Pantomimes — Screenplay
• 1953Intimate Relations — Theatre Play
• 1952La Villa Santo-Sospir — Self, Director
• 1951Black Crown — Writer
• 1950Orpheus — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1950The Strange Ones — Narrator (voice), Novel, Writer
• 1949Daughter of the Sands — Narrator (voice)
• 1948L'Amore — Theatre Play
• 1948The Eagle with Two Heads — Director, Writer, Theatre Play
• 1948The Queen's Lover — Adaptation
• 1948The Storm Within — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1947Rhythm of Africa — Director
• 1946Beauty and the Beast — The Voice of Magic (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Story, Dialogue
• 1946Black Friendship — Narrator, Writer
• 1945Les Dames du bois de Boulogne — Dialogue
• 1944From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain — Reciter (voice)
• 1944La Malibran — Alfred de Musset
• 1943The Eternal Return — Screenplay
• 1943The Phantom Baron — Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme, Writer
• 1942The Four-Poster Bed — Screenplay
• 1940Comedy of Happiness — Adaptation
• 1932The Blood of a Poet — Bit Part (uncredited), Director, Writer, Editor
• 1925Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema — Director
• La macchina da scrivere — Creator
• Parade — Writer

Appearances as themselves (34)

• 2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2024Jean Cocteau — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur — Self (archive footage)
• 2020A Night at the Opera — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Art of Style: Jean Cocteau — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Callas Assoluta — Self (archive footage)
• 2007To Each His Own Cinema — Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
• 2006Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Cocteau and Company — Himself
• 2001Jean Cocteau, cinéaste — Self (archive footage)
• 1997Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths — Self (archive footage)
• 1996Great Writers: Jean Cocteau — Self
• 1985Steel Cathedrals — Self (voice) (archive footage)
• 1984Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown — Self (archive footage)
• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)
• 1967Disorder Is 20 Years Old — Self (archive footage)
• 1964Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau — Self
• Pour le plaisir — Self
• 1962Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir — Self
• Discorama — Self
• 1959Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau — Himself
• 1957It Happened on the 36 Candles — Self (uncredited)
• Cinépanorama — Self
• En direct de... — self
• Around the World with Orson Welles — Self (archive footage)
• 1955Eine Melodie - vier Maler — Self
• Reflets de Cannes — Self
• 1952Venom and Eternity — Self
• 1951Colette — Himself
• 1950Disorder — Self
• 1950The Century Is Fifty — Self