Jean Renoir Photo

Jean Renoir

Directing

0.9 Popularity Sep 15, 1894 (84 years old) Paris, France

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 paint...

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 126

2021
The Emma Bovary Trial Movie

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2021
Le Parti du cinéma Movie

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir Movie

as Self (archive footage)

2014
François Truffaut l'insoumis Movie

as Self (archive footage)

1994
1978
1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma TV

as Self (archive footage)

1973
Carola Movie

Writer

1970
Langlois Movie

as Self

1969
1968
Louis Lumière Movie

as Self

Photos 4

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Personal Details

Known For Directing
Gender Not specified
Birthday September 15, 1894 (84 years old)
Died February 12, 1979
Place of Birth Paris, France
Also Known As 장 르누아르, ジャン・ルノワール
Years Active 1915 - 2021
Popularity 0.9
Career Stats
126 Total Credits
30 Movie Roles
3 TV Roles
4 Photos