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).
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.
Filmography
all 73
Movies 70
Director 42
self 22
TV Shows 3
Writer 3
The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)
Le Parti du cinéma (2021)
Quand Jean devint Renoir (2017)
My Journey Through French Cinema (2016)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
François Truffaut l'insoumis (2014)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Erich von Stroheim (2012)
Around the River (2006)
Un tournage à la campagne (1994)
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993)
Jean Renoir: Part Two - Hollywood and Beyond (1993)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978)
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1974)
Carola (1973)
The Christian Licorice Store (1971)
Langlois (1970)
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir (1969)
D'un Céline l'autre (1969)
Jean Renoir le patron: La règle et l'exception (1969)
Louis Lumière (1968)
Jean Renoir le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur (1967)
The Elusive Corporal (1962)
Jean Renoir parle de son art (1961)
The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1960)
Picnic on the Grass (1959)
Discorama (1959)
Elena and Her Men (1956)
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir (1956)
Cinépanorama (1956)
French Cancan (1955)
The Golden Coach (1952)
The River (1951)
The Ways of Love (1950)
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
A Day in the Country (1946)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
The Southerner (1945)
A Salute to France (1944)
This Land Is Mine (1943)
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
Swamp Water (1941)
Tosca (1941)
Cristobal's Gold (1940)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
La Bête Humaine (1938)
La Marseillaise (1938)
The Spanish Earth (1937)
Grand Illusion (1937)
The Lower Depths (1936)
Life Is Ours (1936)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
Toni (1935)
A Bum Deal (1935)
Madame Bovary (1934)
Chotard and Co. (1933)
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Night at the Crossroads (1932)
La Chienne (1931)
Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931)
Baby's Laxative (1931)
The Pursuit of Happiness (1930)
Little Red Riding Hood (1930)
Le Bled (1929)
The Tournament (1929)
The Sad Sack (1928)
The Little Match Girl (1928)
Backbiters (1927)
La P’tite Lili (1927)
Marquitta (1927)
Charleston Parade (1927)
Nana (1926)
Whirlpool of Fate (1925)
Those of Our Land (1915)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1894-09-15
Deathday1979-02-12 (84 years old)
Birth Place18th arrondissement of Paris, France
Height
RelationshipsCatherine Hessling (1920-01-24 - 1943-01-01), Dido Freire (1944-02-06 - 1979-02-12)
ChildrenAlain Renoir
FatherPierre-Auguste Renoir
MotherAline Charigot
SiblingsPierre Renoir, Claude Renoir
CitizenshipsFrance
ResidencesBeverly Hills, United States of America
Also Known As장 르누아르, ジャン・ルノワール
AwardsPrix Charles Blanc, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Louis Delluc Prize, Academy Honorary Award
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