Alain Renoir
Alain Renoir (October 31, 1921 – December 12, 2008) was a French-American writer and literature professor, son of filmmaker Jean Renoir and actress Catherine Hessling, and grandson of impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Renoir was born in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the only son of Jean Renoir. As a teenager Renoir worked in a few of his father's films, including House Party (1936), as assistant cameraman on The Human Beast (1938) and The Rules of the Game (1939). In 1942 he joined his father in the United States, enlisted in the American Army and served in combat in the Pacific.
After the war, he studied English literature and comparative literature, earning his PhD from Harvard University in 1956.[1] Renoir became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he founded the Department of Comparative Literature in 1966.[2] He was considered a leading scholar of medieval English literature and published books on Beowulf and John Lydgate and was honored with a festschrift in 1992 for his scholarly activities.[3]
After retiring, Renoir spent his last years running a small sustainable farm in north central California, doing much of the work himself.
He had three children, John, Peter and Anne.
References
- ^ "Unique film of Impressionist Renoir at work is found at Department of Comparative Literature". 19 July 2001.
- ^ Klingenstein, Susanne (December 1998). Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815605409.
- ^ Foley, John M. (1992). De Gustibus: Essays for Alain Renoir. Garland. ISBN 0815303955.
External links
- IMDb database bio
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- The Whirlpool of Fate (1925)
- Nana (1926)
- Marquitta (1927)
- The Little Match Girl (1928)
- Le Bled (1929)
- On purge bébé (1931)
- La Chienne (1931)
- Night at the Crossroads (1932)
- Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
- Chotard and Company (1933)
- Madame Bovary (1934)
- Toni (1935)
- Life Belongs to Us (1936)
- The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
- The Lower Depths (1936)
- La Grande Illusion (1937)
- La Marseillaise (1938)
- La Bête Humaine (1938)
- The Rules of the Game (1939)
- Swamp Water (1941)
- This Land Is Mine (1943)
- The Southerner (1945)
- The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
- "Partie de campagne" (1946)
- The Woman on the Beach (1947)
- The River (1951)
- The Golden Coach (1952)
- French Cancan (1955)
- Elena and Her Men (1956)
- The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1959)
- Picnic on the Grass (1959)
- The Elusive Corporal (1962)
- The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970)