# Jean Cocteau

> He wrote novels, directed films, drew, designed, and staged plays — yet insisted he was only ever a poet, just working in different rooms. That umbrella let Cocteau slip between Surrealism, Dada, and a dozen other movements without joining any, making him the era's most variously expressive artist and possibly its last Renaissance man.

*French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1889-07-05
- **Died:** 1963-10-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born July 1889, Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau spent the first half of the 20th century proving a single artist could work everywhere at once. Novels arrived first — Le Grand Écart in 1923, Le Livre blanc in 1928, Les Enfants Terribles in 1929 — then plays including La Voix Humaine in 1930 and La Machine Infernale four years later. By then he'd already made The Blood of a Poet, the 1930 film that opened what became his Orphic Trilogy, completed three decades later with Orpheus and Testament of Orpheus. In between came Beauty and the Beast in 1946 and a screen adaptation of his own Les Parents terribles two years after that. He called it all poetry — poésie cinématographique, poésie graphique, poésie de théâtre — a classification that mattered more to him than any label the avant-garde tried to pin on. He died in October 1963, having left a body of work unequalled for its variety of artistic expression.

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