Film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, author
Years active
1924–1978
Notable work
La Grande Illusion, La règle du jeu, The Southerner, The River, French Cancan
Spouses
Catherine Hessling
(m. 1920; div. 1943)
Dido Freire
(m. 1944)
Partner
Marguerite Renoir (1932–1939)
Relatives
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (father)
Pierre Renoir (brother)
Claude Renoir (nephew)
Sophie Renoir (grand-niece)
Jean Renoir (French:[ʁənwaʁ]; 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. His films La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made.[1] He was ranked by the BFI's Sight & Sound poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time. Among numerous honours accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry. Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the uncle of the cinematographer Claude Renoir. He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an auteur.[2][3][4]
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JeanRenoir (French: [ʁənwaʁ]; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director...
Pierre Renoir, the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and the nephew of director JeanRenoir. He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra...
about JeanRenoir: Bazin, André (1992). JeanRenoir. Lightning Source Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-306-80465-6. Bergan, Ronald (1995). JeanRenoir: Projections...
Little Theatre of JeanRenoir (French: Le Petit Théâtre de JeanRenoir) is a 1970 television film written and directed by JeanRenoir. The last completed...
brought Gabin international recognition. That same year he starred in JeanRenoir's La Grande Illusion, an antiwar film that ran at a New York City theatre...
painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director JeanRenoir. He is also noted for being the first actor to play Georges Simenon's...
règle du jeu) is a 1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by JeanRenoir. The ensemble cast includes Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély...
namesake director JeanRenoir: Toni, La Marseillaise, and La Bête Humaine. The lobby featured a framed personal letter from Renoir, which gave Kristen...
for "The Grand Illusion") is a 1937 French war drama film directed by JeanRenoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. The story concerns class...
were Pierre Chenal, Jean Vigo, Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carné, and, perhaps the movement's most significant director, JeanRenoir. Renoir made a wide variety...
impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir was born in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the only son of JeanRenoir. As a teenager Renoir worked in a few of his father's...
(English: "The Lament of the Mound") is a French love song, written by JeanRenoir, set to music by Georges van Parys, and originally performed by Cora...
cinematographer Claude Renoir (1913–1993), granddaughter of actors Pierre Renoir and Véra Sergine, and grand-niece of film director JeanRenoir. In 1988, she was...
bond she developed with the Renoirs' second son, the future filmmaker JeanRenoir, lasted throughout their lives. Upon her marriage in 1921, she became...
September 1979) was a French actress and the first wife of film director JeanRenoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the...
the artistic director of JeanRenoir's film La Chienne. He participated in the following films 1931 : La Chienne by JeanRenoir 1931 : L'Amour à l'américaine...
Becker turned it down. Back in France Becker developed a friendship with JeanRenoir, whom he had first met in 1921 through their mutual acquaintance with...
film written and directed by JeanRenoir and starring Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, and María Félix. It marked Renoir's return to France and to French...
Truffaut. He also worked in small roles and as an assistant director to JeanRenoir on French Cancan and Jacques Becker on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves...
was drawn into independent film-making after meeting French filmmaker JeanRenoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves...
Sight & Sound compiled the list. Orson Welles Alfred Hitchcock Jean-Luc Godard JeanRenoir Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Federico Fellini John Ford Sergei...
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