Born in Paris in 1894 and died in 1979, Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. His humane, fluid films of the 1930s made him the leading figure of French cinema before he worked in Hollywood and India during and after the war.
Filmography
- La Chienne (1931)
- Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
- The Lower Depths (1936)
- The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
- A Day in the Country (1936)
- La Grande Illusion (1937)
- La Bête humaine (1938)
- The Rules of the Game (1939)
- The Southerner (1945)
- The River (1951)
- The Golden Coach (1952)
- French Cancan (1954)
- Elena and Her Men (1956)