His leg injury left him with a permanent limp, but allowed him to discover the cinema, where he used to recuperate with his leg elevated while watching the films of Charlie Chaplin and others. Later, after receiving a bullet in his leg, he served as a reconnaissance pilot. His father’s financial success ensured that the young Renoir was educated at fashionable boarding schools, which, as he later wrote, he continually ran away from.Īt the outbreak of World War I Renoir was serving in the French cavalry.

He and the rest of the Renoir family were the subjects of many of his father’s paintings. He was also the brother of Pierre Renoir, a noted French stage and film actor the uncle of Claude Renoir, a cinematographer and the father of Alain Renoir, late professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley.Īs a child, Renoir moved with his family to the south of France. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir was born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s.

Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.

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