biography
pronunciation:
[renwah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1979)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Paris, France, the son of Pierre Auguste Renoir. After serving in World War 1 (where he won the Croix de Guerre), he studied ceramics, then began writing screenplays, and turned to silent film-making. His version of Zola's Nana (1926), La Grande Illusion (1937, The Great Illusion), La Règle du Jeu (1939, The Rules of the Game), The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), and Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1959, Lunch on the Grass) are among the masterpieces of the cinema. He left France in 1941 during the German invasion, and became a US citizen. His last films were Le Caporal épinglé (1962, The Vanishing Corporal) and Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (1969, The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir). He received an honorary Academy Award in 1975. |
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