Born...
Friday, 05 July 1889
Maisons-Laffitte, France
Died...
Friday, 11 October 1963
Jean Cocteau
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- Cocteau, Jean, Le Coq et l'Arlequin: notes autour de la musique – avec un portrait de l'auteur et deux monogrammes par P. Picasso, Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1918
- Cocteau, Jean, Le Grand Écart, 1923, his first novel
- Cocteau, Jean, Le Numéro Barbette, an influential essay on the nature of art inspired by the performer Barbette, 1926
- Cocteau, Jean, The Human Voice, translated by Carl Wildman, Vision Press Ltd., Great Britain, 1947
- Cocteau, Jean, The Eagle Has Two Heads, adapted by Ronald Duncan, Vision Press Ltd., Great Britain, 1947
- Cocteau, Jean, "Bacchus". Paris: Gallimard, 1952.
- Cocteau, Jean, The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants terribles), translated by Rosamond Lehmann, New Directions. New York, 1957
- Cocteau, Jean, Opium: The Diary of a Cure, translated by Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road, Grove Press Inc., New York, 1958
- Cocteau, Jean, The Infernal Machine And Other Plays, translated by W.H. Auden, E.E. Cummings, Dudley Fitts, Albert Bermel, Mary C. Hoeck, and John K. Savacool, New Directions Books, New York, 1963
- Cocteau, Jean, Toros Muertos, along with Lucien Clergue and Jean Petit, Brussel & Brussel,1966
- Cocteau, Jean, The Art of Cinema, edited by André Bernard and Claude Gauteur, translated by Robin Buss, Marion Boyars, London, 1988
- Cocteau, Jean, Diary of an Unknown, translated by Jesse Browner, Paragon House Publishers, New York, 1988
- Cocteau, Jean, The White Book (Le Livre blanc), sometimes translated as The White Paper, translated by Margaret Crosland, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1989
- Cocteau, Jean, Les Parents terribles, new translation by Jeremy Sams, Nick Hern Books, London, 1994
CGiiiBase...
_f47ac6b01bf1044313501ba8ca2cbc4b.jpg "Beauty and the Beast")
2_4c72c6440ab92d4ce16a1313e4fb028d.jpg "Blood of a Poet (The)")
_c50a9f3fca1e078f56bc75e1542f49f3.jpg "Enfants Terribles (Les)")
3_d25c4508fcc7f2abe000f513850ce7ff.jpg "Testament of Orpheus")
_d663802619c2862521b8c7832d73fc71.jpg "Villa Santo Sospir (La)")
Filmography...
Director…
1962 Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000 (short)
1960 Testament of Orpheus
1957 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements
1952 La villa Santo Sospir (short)
1950 Orphée
1950 Coriolan
1948 Les parents terribles
1948 L'aigle à deux têtes
1946 Beauty and the Beast
1930 The Blood of a Poet
1925 Jean Cocteau fait du cinéma
Actor…
1957 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements
1954 Pantomimes (short)
1951 Traité de bave et d'éternité - Lui-même
1950 Les Enfants Terribles - Narrator (voice)
1950 Orphée - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1950 Coriolan
1949 Desert Wedding - Narrator
1948 Les parents terribles - Narrator (uncredited)
1946 Beauty and the Beast - Voice of Magic (voice) (uncredited)
1944 La Malibran - Alfred de Musset(as Monsieur Jean Cocteau de l'Académie Mallarmé)
1943 The Phantom Baron - Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantôme
1930 The Blood of a Poet - Bit Part (uncredited)
Writer…
2010 Ea3 (based on a play by)
2003 Les parents terribles (TV movie) (play)
2003 Les parents terribles (TV movie) (play)
2002 Beautiful (short) (play)
2001 Kerstmatinee 2001 (TV movie) (libretto)
1999 The Walled Garden (short) (short story)
1996 Mia foni... mia poli (short) (story)
1994 Drug-Taking and the Arts (documentary) (journal Opium)
1993 Edwige Feuillère en scène (TV movie) (text)
1993 Le bel indifférent (short) (play)
1993 Oedipus Rex (TV movie) (libretto)
1991 Merlín (play "Les chevaliers de la table ronde")
1990 La voix humaine (libretto)
1990 Carole Farley in 'The Telephone' and 'La Voix Humaine' (TV movie) (libretto/segment "La Voix Humaine")
1986 La voz humana (TV series)
1984 Oedipus Rex (TV movie) (libretto)
1983 Orpheus (TV movie) (play)
1982 Cher menteur (TV movie) (adaptation)
1981 Il mistero di Oberwald (play "L'Aigle a Deux Têtes")
1980 Les parents terribles (TV movie) (play)
1969 Estudio 1 (TV series) – Los padres terribles(1980) (play) – El Aguila De Dos Cabezas(1969)
1979 La dame de Monte Carlo (short) (writer)
1977 Teatro estudio (TV series) – El águila de dos cabezas(1977)
1976 The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (TV mini-series) – The Poetry of Earth(1976) ('Oedipus Rex' libretto)
1975 L'aigle à deux têtes (TV movie) (play)
1975 Le bel indifférent (TV movie) (play)
1972 Oedipus Rex (TV documentary) (libretto)
1971 I mostri sacri (TV movie) (play)
1967 Der schöne Gleichgültige (TV short) (play)
1967 De onverschillige (TV movie) (play "Le bel Indifférent")
1966 The Human Voice (TV movie) (story)
1966 De tweekoppige adelaar (TV movie)
1966 La machine à écrire (TV movie) (play)
1965 Thomas the Impostor (novel / screenplay)
1964 Mahdottomat vanhemmat (TV movie) (play "Les parents terribles")
1963 La machine infernale (TV movie) (play)
1962 ITV Play of the Week (TV series) – The Typewriter (play "La machine à écrire")
1962 Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000 (short)
1961 Princess of Cleves (adaptation)
1960 Die geliebte Stimme (short) (play)
1960 Testament of Orpheus
1958 Anna la bonne (short) (poem)
1957 Django Reinhardt (short) (commentary)
1957 Le bel indifférent (short) (play / as Jean Cocteau de l'Académie Française)
1956 Der schöne Gleichgültige (TV short) (play)
1954 Intimate Relations (play "Les Parents Terribles")
1954 Pantomimes (short) (commentary)
1953 TV de Vanguarda (TV series) – A Máquina de Escrever (play)
1951 Black Crown (story)
1950 Les Enfants Terribles (adaptation and dialogue / novel)
1950 The Century Is Fifty (documentary) (sketch)
1950 Orphée
1948 Les parents terribles (play / screenplay)
1948 L'aigle à deux têtes (writer)
1948 L'amore (play "La voix humaine" / segment "La voce umana")
1948 Ruy Blas (screenplay and dialogue)
1948 Romantici a Venezia (documentary short) (commentary: French version)
1946 Beauty and the Beast (dialogue / screenplay / story)
1945 Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (dialogue: additional)
1943 Love Eternal (dialogue / scenario)
1943 The Phantom Baron (dialogue)
1940 Comedy of Happiness (adaptation / dialogue)
1930 The Blood of a Poet
Biographies about...
- Arthur B. Evans, Jean Cocteau and his Films of Orphic Identity. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1977.
- Cornelia A. Tsakiridou, ed. Reviewing Orpheus: Essays on the Cinema and Art of Jean Cocteau. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1997.
- Breton, André (1953). La Clé des champs, p. 77. Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire.
- Steegmuller, Francis, Cocteau: A Biography, Atlantic-Little, Brown, Boston, 1970.