Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French-American movie director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. His father was artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

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

 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. 
 Je m’appelle Jean Renoir. Site at the University of Nancy, France. (In French) 
 Faulkner, Christopher. "An Archive of the (Political) Unconscious " Canadian Journal of Communication [Online], 26 1 Jan 2001 — analysis of Renoir's FBI files.


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