Jean Renoir

Birth Name:

Jean Renoir

Birth Place:

Paris, France

Profession

Director, Writer, Producer, Actor, Soundtrack, Editor, Set decorator

Served in a Dragoon regiment of the French military during World War I as a cavalry officer and pilot
Won a National Board of Review Award for Best Director for "The Southerner" in 1945
Won three Venice Film Festival Awards, one for "The Grand Illusion" in 1937, one for "The Southerner" in 1946, and one for "The River" in 1951
Was the son of the master impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Started out as a writer, producer, and co-director of the film "Backbiters" in 1924, and also appeared in the film
Worked as a ceramic artist before becoming interested in the film industry
Quote: "(On his struggle to make movies in America): "Hollywood is an immense machine, an admirable mechanism without a soul․""
Best known as the writer and director of "The Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game․"
In addition to his memoirs, novels, plays, and short stories, he also wrote a biography of his father in 1962 called "Renoir, My Father․"

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