Person Details

Birthday: 1894-09-15 18:17:01

Death: 1979-02-12 18:17:01

Aliases: 장 르누아르 , ジャン・ルノワール

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Paris, France

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Movie Involvements: 110

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

Biography

Jean Renoir 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). During the 1930s Renoir enjoyed great success as a filmmaker. In 1931 he directed his first sound films, On purge bébé and La Chienne (The Bitch). The following year he made Boudu Saved From Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux), a farcical sendup of the pretensions of a middle-class bookseller and his family, who meet with comic, and ultimately disastrous, results when they attempt to reform a vagrant played by Michel Simon. By the middle of the decade Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films, such as The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, 1935), La Vie Est a Nous (People of France) (1936) and La Marseillaise (1938), reflect the movement's politics. In 1937 he made one of his most well-known films, Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion), starring Erich von Stroheim and the immensely popular Jean Gabin. A film on the theme of brotherhood about a series of escape attempts by French POWs during World War I, it was enormously successful but was also banned in Germany, and later in Italy after having won the "Best Artistic Ensemble" award at the Venice Film Festival. This was followed by another cinematic success: The Human Beast (La Bête Humaine) (1938), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by Émile Zola and starring Simone Simon and Jean Gabin.

Most Famous Work

Grand Illusion
Average
8

Grand Illusion

(1937) Screenplay
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Average
7

Boudu Saved from Drowning

(1932) Screenplay
The Rules of the Game
Average
8

The Rules of the Game

(1939) Screenplay
French Cancan
Average
7

French Cancan

(1955) Writer
La Bête Humaine
Average
7

La Bête Humaine

(1938) Screenplay
La Chienne
Average
7

La Chienne

(1931) Screenplay
The Little Match Girl
Average
7

The Little Match Girl

(1928) Writer
A Day in the Country
Average
7

A Day in the Country

(1946) Writer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2021 Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2017 Self (archive footage)
2015 Self (archive footage)
2014 Self (archive footage)
2012 Self
1994 Self
1993 Self (archive footage)
1978 Self (archive footage)
1971 Self
1970 Self
1969 Self
Self
Self
1968 Self
1967 Self - Interviewee
1961 Interviewee
1959 Self
1956 Himself
Self
1946 Père Poulain
1939 Octave
1938 Cabuche
1937 Narrator (voice)
1936 Le patron du bistrot
1931 Master sergeant (uncredited)
1930 N/A
Compère le Loup
1927 N/A
Angel
1915 Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1974 Director
1962 Director
1960 Director
1959 Director
1956 Director
1955 Director
1952 Director
1951 Director
1950 Director
1947 Director
1946 Director
Director
1945 Director
1944 Director
1943 Director
Co-Director
1941 Director
Co-Director
1939 Director
1938 Director
Director
1937 Director
1936 Director
Director
Director
1935 Director
Director
1934 Director
1933 Director
1932 Director
Director
1931 Director
Director
1929 Director
Director
1928 Director
Director
1927 Director
Director
Director
1926 Director
1925 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1974 Writer
1973 Writer
1962 Writer
1960 Screenplay
1959 Screenplay
1956 Writer
1955 Writer
Adaptation
1952 Screenplay
1951 Screenplay
1947 Screenplay
1946 Writer
1945 Writer
1944 Screenplay
1943 Screenplay
1940 Dialogue
1939 Screenplay
1938 Screenplay
Writer
1937 Screenplay
1936 Writer
Writer
Screenplay
1935 Author
1934 Screenplay
1933 Writer
1932 Screenplay
Screenplay
1931 Screenplay
Writer
1930 Writer
1929 Adaptation
1928 Writer
Writer
1927 Screenplay
Adaptation
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Editing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1927 Editor
Year Role Movie/Tv

Art

Year Role Movie/Tv
1925 Set Decoration
Year Role Movie/Tv

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