Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
9/15/1894
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
장 르누아르ジャン・ルノワール
Jean Renoir
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 real...
Known For
La Bête Humaine
as Cabuche
The Rules of the Game
as Octave
A Day in the Country
as Père Poulain
The Christian Licorice Store
as Self
Louis Lumière
as Self
Mam'zelle Nitouche
as Master sergeant (uncredited)
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Self (archive footage)
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
as The Narrator/Host
Life Is Ours
as Le patron du bistrot
Langlois
as Self
Little Red Riding Hood
as Compère le Loup
The Emma Bovary Trial
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
La P’tite Lili
Unknown Role
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
as Self
Those of Our Land
as Self
Un tournage à la campagne
as Self
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Self (archive footage)
The Spanish Earth
as Narrator (voice)
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
as Self
Backbiters
as le sous-préfet