Jean Renoir

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September 15, 1894

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.

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The Emma Bovary Trial
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movie2021France
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)Credit: Acting
Le Parti du cinéma
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movie2021France
Character: Self (voice) (archive footage)Credit: Acting
Quand Jean devint Renoir
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movie2017France
Character: Self (archive footage)Credit: Acting
François Truffaut l'insoumis
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movie2014France
Character: Self (archive footage)Credit: Acting
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
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movie2012France
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
Un tournage à la campagne
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movie1994France
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
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movie1993United StatesUK
Character: Self (archive footage)Credit: Acting
Renoir, My Father
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movie1978UK
Credit: Book
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
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movie1974France
Character: Director, WriterCredit: Director, Writer
Carola
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movie1973United States
Credit: Writer
The Christian Licorice Store
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movie1971United States
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
Langlois
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movie1970United States
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
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movie1969United States
Character: Jean RenoirCredit: Acting
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
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movie1969France
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
D'un Céline l'autre
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movie1969France
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
Louis Lumière
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movie1968France
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
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movie1967France
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
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movie1967France
Character: Self - IntervieweeCredit: Acting
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
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movie1967France
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
The Elusive Corporal
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movie1962France
Character: Director, WriterCredit: Director, Writer