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Jean Cocteau
French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 5 July 1889
- Died
- 11 October 1963
- Place of birth
- Maisons-Laffitte
- Place of death
- Milly-la-Forêt
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Jean
- Family name
- Cocteau
- Mother
- Eugénie Cocteau
- Movement
- theatre of the absurd, modernism
- Occupation
- painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, novelist, screenwriter, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, writer
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- archives at
- University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives, Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- copyright representative
- reproduction right represented by CISAC-member
- depicted by
- Jean Cocteau
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), UbuWeb, hedendaagsesieraden.nl, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Lycée Condorcet
- end of work period
- 1963
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Design Museum Den Bosch, Vanderbilt Museum of Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Jill & Byron Crawford collection
- influenced by
- Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Maurice Maeterlinck
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Académie Française, German Academy for Language and Literature, Academie Royale de Langue et de littérature Françaises, Société des poètes français
- name in native language
- Jean Cocteau
- nominated for
- BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Nobel Prize in Literature, Tony Award for Best Play
- notable work
- Orpheus, The Blood of a Poet, Beauty and the Beast
- participant in
- Documenta III, Medusa, Bijoux et tabous
- place of burial
- Chapelle Saint-Blaise-des-Simples
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Jean Cocteau, Category:Films with screenplays by Jean Cocteau
- represented by
- Artists Rights Society, Light Cone
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- start of work period
- 1908
- topic's main category
- Category:Jean Cocteau
- unmarried partner
- Jean Marais, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Edouard Dermit, Jean Desbordes, Jean Le Roy, Raymond Radiguet
- writing language
- French
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