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
(1937) ScreenplayBoudu Saved from Drowning
(1932) ScreenplayThe Rules of the Game
(1939) ScreenplayFrench Cancan
(1955) WriterLa Bête Humaine
(1938) ScreenplayLa Chienne
(1931) ScreenplayThe Little Match Girl
(1928) WriterA Day in the Country
(1946) WriterActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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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
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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 | |
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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 |
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1974 | Writer | |
1973 | Writer | |
1962 | Writer | |
1960 | Screenplay | |
1959 | Screenplay | |
1956 | Writer | |
1955 | Writer | |
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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
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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1960 | Producer | |
1943 | Producer | |
1939 | Producer | |
1938 | Producer | |
1930 | Producer | |
1928 | Producer | |
1927 | Producer | |
1926 | Producer | |
1925 | Producer | |
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Editing
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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1927 | Editor | |
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Art
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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1925 | Set Decoration | |
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |