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Jul 05, 1889 Maisons Laffitte, Île de France, France Died on 11 Oct 1963 (aged 74)
French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
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About Jean Cocteau
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: , US: , French: [??~ mo?is ø??n klem?~ k?kto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic.
- Cocteau is best known for his novels Le Grand Écart (1923), Le Livre Blanc (1928), and Les Enfants Terribles (1929); the stage plays La Voix Humaine (1930), La Machine Infernale (1934), Les Parents terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946); and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), from his own eponymous piéce, Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1949), and Testament of Orpheus (1960), which alongside Blood of a Poet and Orpheus constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy.
- He was described as "one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers" by AllMovie.
