Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894 February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. As a film director and actor he made over forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, his biography of his father, Renoir My Father (1962), is the definitive biography of that artist.