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Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir
Personal information
Birth date15 September 1894
Place of birthParis, France
Date of death12 February 1979(age 84)
Death placeBeverly Hills, California, United States
OccupationActor, director, screenwriter, producer, author
Years active1924 � 1978
SpouseCatherine Hessling (1920 � 1930)
Dido Freire (1944 � 1979)

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Jean Renoir (-frʁənwaʁ; 15 September 1894 - 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962).


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