Jean Renoir
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.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
September 15, 1894Deathday
February 12, 1979Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
75Place of birth
Paris, FranceAlso known as
장 르누아르, ジャン・ルノワール
Cast credits
The Rules of the Game
Octave
La Bête Humaine
Cabuche
A Day in the Country
Père Poulain
Louis Lumière
Self
Charleston Parade
Angel
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Self
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Self
Little Red Riding Hood
Compère le Loup
Un tournage à la campagne
Self
The Pursuit of Happiness
Langlois
Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Himself
Cinéastes de notre temps: Erich von Stroheim
Self
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee
The Christian Licorice Store
Self
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage)
Life Is Ours
Le patron du bistrotCrew credits
The Rules of the Game
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Grand Illusion
Director, Screenplay
The Doctor's Horrible Experiment
Producer, Screenplay, Director
La Chienne
Director, Screenplay
The Little Match Girl
Director, Writer, Producer
La Bête Humaine
Director, Screenplay
The Woman on the Beach
Screenplay, Director
The Elusive Corporal
Director, Writer
Picnic on the Grass
Director, Screenplay
Madame Bovary
Director, Screenplay
A Day in the Country
Director, Writer
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Director
The Southerner
Director, Writer
This Land Is Mine
Director, Producer, Screenplay
The River
Screenplay, Director, Producer
Swamp Water
Director
French Cancan
Director, Adaptation, Writer
Life Is Ours
Director, Writer
The Lower Depths
Director, Writer
Nana
Director, Producer
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Director, ScreenplayImages
