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Jean Renoir: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born September 15, 1894 • Paris • France
Died February 12, 1979 (aged 84) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works “French Cancan” • “Grand Illusion” • “The Golden Coach” • “The River” • “The Rules of the Game”

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Jean Renoir
Erich von Stroheim, in military uniform, sits beside Pierre Fresnay, who lies in a hospital bed, with a nurse standing behind them in a scene from Grand Illusion (1937).
Pierre Fresnay and Erich von Stroheim in La Grande Illusion
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lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
Jacques Tourneur
French-American director
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt
French-born American photographer and filmmaker
Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Guy-Blaché
French film director
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David Maysles
American documentary filmmaker
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Ethan Coen
American filmmaker
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Joel Coen
American filmmaker
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Jesse Lasky
American producer
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Judith Malina
American theater director and actress
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James Ivory
American director
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Michael Cimino
American director
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Stan Brakhage
American filmmaker
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Harold Ramis
American actor, writer, and director
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
American actress
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background.
Woody Allen
American director, writer, and actor
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Vincente Minnelli
American director
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor