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A Short Biography of Jean Cocteau

Author Name:

Jean Cocteau

Born As:

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau

Other Names:

Jean Cocteau

Born:

5 Jul 1889

Died:

11 Oct 1963




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Dramatist, screenwriter, director, writer, poet and painter                          
Selected works:

Films:

Le sang dun poète - The Blood of a Poet - 1930
L'Eternel Retour - The Eternal Return - 1943
La belle et la bête - Beauty and the Beast - 1946
L'aigle à deux têtes - The Eagle Has Two Heads - 1947
Les parents terribles - The Storm Within - 1948
Coriolan - 1950 Never Released
Orphée - Orpheus - 1950
La villa Santo-Sospir - 1952
8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements - 1957 Co-director, Experimental
Le testament d'Orphée - The Testament of Orpheus - 1960

Bibliography:

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
Le Grand écart, 1923 - Ffirst novel
Le Numéro Barbette, an influential essay on the nature of art inspired by the performer Barbette, 1926
The Human Voice, translated by Carl Wildman - 1947
The Eagle Has Two Heads, adapted by Ronald Duncan - 1947
The Holy Terrors (Les enfants terribles), translated by Rosamond Lehmann - 1957
Opium: The Diary of a Cure, translated by Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road - 1958
The Infernal Machine And Other Plays, translated by W.A. Auden, E.E. Cummings, Dudley Fitts, Albert Bermel, Mary C. Hoeck, and John K. Savacool - 1963
Toros Muertos, with Lucien Clergue and Jean Petit - 1966
The Art of Cinema, edited by André Bernard and Claude Gauteur, translated by Robin Buss, Marion Boyars - 1988
 Diary of an Unknown, translated by Jesse Browner - 1988
The White Book (Le livre blanc), sometimes translated as The White Paper, translated by Margaret Crosland - 1989
Les parents terribles, new translation by Jeremy Sams - 1994.                          
Mother Eugénie Lecomte
Father Georges Cocteau