Jean Renoir
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.
The Rules of the Game
(Octave)
The Emma Bovary Trial
(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))
La Bête Humaine
(Cabuche)
A Day in the Country
(Père Poulain)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
(Self (archive footage))
Mam'zelle Nitouche
(Master sergeant (uncredited))
Those of Our Land
(Self)
La P’tite Lili
Charleston Parade
(Angel)
The Spanish Earth
(Narrator (voice))
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
(Self)
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
(Self)
Louis Lumière
(Self)
Backbiters
(le sous-préfet)
Little Red Riding Hood
(Compère le Loup)
The Pursuit of Happiness
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
(Self (archive footage))
Un tournage à la campagne
(Self)
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
(Self)
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
(Jean Renoir)
Langlois
(Self)
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
(Self - Interviewee)
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
(Himself)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
(Self)
Jean Renoir parle de son art
(Interviewee)
The Christian Licorice Store
(Self)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
(Self (archive footage))
Quand Jean devint Renoir
(Self (archive footage))
Life Is Ours
(Le patron du bistrot)
D'un Céline l'autre
(Self)
Le Parti du cinéma
(Self (voice) (archive footage))
Discorama
(Self)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
(Self (archive footage))
Cinépanorama
(Self)
The Rules of the Game
(Director)
The Rules of the Game
(Screenplay)
Grand Illusion
(Director)
Grand Illusion
(Screenplay)
Experiment in Evil
(Director)
Experiment in Evil
(Screenplay)
Experiment in Evil
(Producer)
La Chienne
(Director)
The Little Match Girl
(Director)
La Bête Humaine
(Director)
The Elusive Corporal
(Director)
Picnic on the Grass
(Director)
Madame Bovary
(Director)
The Woman on the Beach
(Director)
The Woman on the Beach
(Screenplay)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
(Director)
French Cancan
(Director)
French Cancan
(Adaptation)
Swamp Water
(Director)
The River
(Director)
The River
(Screenplay)
The Southerner
(Director)
The Southerner
(Writer)
This Land Is Mine
(Director)
A Day in the Country
(Director)
Life Is Ours
(Director)
The Lower Depths
(Director)
Nana
(Director)
Boudu Saved from Drowning
(Director)
Toni
(Director)
Toni
(Author)
The Sad Sack
(Director)
Elena and Her Men
(Director)
The Golden Coach
(Director)
Night at the Crossroads
(Director)
Charleston Parade
(Director)
The Tournament
(Director)
The Tournament
(Adaptation)
Le Bled
(Director)
Baby's Laxative
(Director)
Baby's Laxative
(Writer)
Backbiters
(Director)
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
(Director)
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
(Writer)
Whirlpool of Fate
(Director)
A Salute to France
(Director)
Elena and Her Men
(Writer)
A Day in the Country
(Writer)
Little Red Riding Hood
(Writer)
Little Red Riding Hood
(Producer)
The Golden Coach
(Screenplay)
La Chienne
(Screenplay)
Tosca
(Co-Director)
A Bum Deal
(Director)
French Cancan
(Writer)
A Salute to France
(Screenplay)
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
(Co-Director)
Whirlpool of Fate
(Producer)
Whirlpool of Fate
(Set Decoration)
La Bête Humaine
(Screenplay)
Marquitta
(Director)
Marquitta
(Adaptation)
The Lower Depths
(Writer)
This Land Is Mine
(Screenplay)
This Land Is Mine
(Producer)
Nana
(Producer)
Picnic on the Grass
(Screenplay)
Chotard and Co.
(Director)
The River
(Producer)
The Rules of the Game
(Producer)
Chotard and Co.
(Writer)
The Little Match Girl
(Producer)
Boudu Saved from Drowning
(Screenplay)
The Sad Sack
(Writer)
The Little Match Girl
(Writer)
La Marseillaise
(Writer)
Carola
(Writer)
La Marseillaise
(Director)
Cristobal's Gold
(Dialogue)
Madame Bovary
(Screenplay)
The Elusive Corporal
(Writer)
Night at the Crossroads
(Screenplay)
Backbiters
(Screenplay)
Backbiters
(Producer)
Backbiters
(Editor)
Life Is Ours
(Writer)
La Marseillaise
(Producer)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
(Screenplay)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
(Director)
The Ways of Love
(Director)
Renoir, My Father
(Book)