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Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
September 15, 1894
Died
February 12, 1979
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
- 장 르누아르
- ジャン・ルノワール
Jean Renoir
0.5 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Emma Bovary Trial
2021
7.7
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Le Parti du cinéma
2021
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017
7.2
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015
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Self (archive footage)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014
5.0
Self
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
2012
6.0
Self
Un tournage à la campagne
1994
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
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Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
4.4
Self
The Christian Licorice Store
1971
Credits
The Emma Bovary Trial
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
6.8
Le Parti du cinéma
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
7.7
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Self (archive footage)
2017
10.0
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2015
7.2
François Truffaut l'insoumis
as Self (archive footage)
2014
5.7
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
as Self
2012
5.0
Un tournage à la campagne
as Self
1994
6.0
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Self (archive footage)
1993
10.0
🎬
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
1978
0.0
The Christian Licorice Store
as Self
1971
4.4
Langlois
as Self
1970
4.5
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
as Jean Renoir
1969
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Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
as Self
1969
7.0
D'un Céline l'autre
as Self
1969
7.0
Louis Lumière
as Self
1968
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
as Self
1967
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
as Self - Interviewee
1967
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
as Self
1967
10.0
Jean Renoir parle de son art
as Interviewee
1961
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Discorama
as Self
1959
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L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
as Himself
1956
6.0
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
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A Day in the Country
as Père Poulain
1946
7.3
The Rules of the Game
as Octave
1939
7.5
La Bête Humaine
as Cabuche
1938
7.1
The Spanish Earth
as Narrator (voice)
1937
6.5
Life Is Ours
as Le patron du bistrot
1936
6.2
Mam'zelle Nitouche
as Master sergeant (uncredited)
1931
5.5
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930
0.0
Little Red Riding Hood
as Compère le Loup
1930
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Backbiters
as le sous-préfet
1927
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La P’tite Lili
1927
4.8
Charleston Parade
as Angel
1927
5.8
Those of Our Land
as Self
1915
6.3