Jean Cocteau

Birth: July 5, 1889 - Maisons-Laffitte, France

Death: October 11, 1963 - Milly-la-Forêt, France

Jean Cocteau was a French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter. Some of his most important works include the poem The Angel Heurtebise (1925), the play Orpheus (1926), the novels The Incorrigible Children (1929) and The Infernal Machine (1934), and his surrealistic motion pictures The Blood of a Poet and Beauty and the Beast (1946).