- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- Le patron
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Son of the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste, he had a happy childhood. Pierre Renoir was his brother, and Claude Renoir was his nephew. After the end of World War I, where he won the Croix de Guerre, he moved from scriptwriting to filmmaking. He married Catherine Hessling, for whom he began to make movies; he wanted to make a star of her. They separated in 1930, although he remained married to her until 1943. His next partner was Marguerite Renoir, whom he never married, although she took his name. He left France in 1941 during the German invasion of France during World War II and became a naturalized US citizen.
- IMDb mini biography by: Yepok
- SpousesDido Freire(August 23, 1957 - February 12, 1979) (his death)Dido Freire(February 4, 1944 - February 12, 1979) (his death)Catherine Hessling(January 24, 1920 - June 11, 1949) (divorced, 1 child)
- Parents
- RelativesClaude Renoir(Niece or Nephew)Pierre Renoir(Sibling)
- Films often dealt with the alienation brought by upper-class lifestyle
- Films almost always reflected his left-wing political views
- Orson Welles frequently cited him as the greatest film director of all time.
- He had extremely long hair as a small child which was not cut at the insistence of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. His hair made him look like a little girl and caused him to be teased mercilessly. Little Jean with his long hair was depicted famously in one of his father's paintings. Jean was greatly relieved to go away for school because he knew they required boys to have short hair and they would cut his.
- Son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
- Was voted the 12th-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly magazine, making him the highest-rated French filmmaker on the list.
- Charles Chaplin named him as "the greatest film director in the world".
- My dream is of a craftsman's cinema in which the author can express himself as directly as the painter in his paintings or the writer in his books.
- The Western is always the same, which gives the director tremendous freedom.
- The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience and a little love we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
- A director only makes one film in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
- I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.
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