Jean Renoir
French film director and screenwriter (1894–1979)
Jean Renoir (French: [ʁənwaʁ]; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French-American movie director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. His father was artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Jean Renoir | |
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 from Correio da Manhã. 1959 | |
| Born | 15 September 1894 Paris, France |
| Died | 12 February 1979 (aged 84) Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, actor, screenwriter, producer, author |
| Years active | 1924–1978 |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Hessling (1920–1930) Dido Freire (1944–1979) |
| Partner | Marguerite Renoir (1932–1939) |
As a movie director and actor, he made more than forty movies from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His movie La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939). He received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry.
Renoir died in Beverly Hills, California on February 12, 1979 at the age of 84.
Other websites
change- Jean Renoir on IMDb
- Jean Renoir: A Bibliography of Materials in the University of California at Berkeley Library.
- Interview conducted in 1960 with Columbia University's Oral History Research Office. Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Je m’appelle Jean Renoir. Site at the University of Nancy, France. (In French) Archived 2015-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Faulkner, Christopher. "An Archive of the (Political) Unconscious Archived 2005-03-21 at the Wayback Machine" Canadian Journal of Communication [Online], 26 1 Jan 2001 — analysis of Renoir's FBI files.
- Jean Renoir at Find a Grave
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