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Jean Marais

French actor and theatre director (1913-1998)

Jean Marais was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, writer and photographer. During the post-war period he was one of France's major film stars and performed in various successful swashbuckler films. He was directed by Jean Cocteau in multiple plays and films, notably Beauty and the Beast (1946), and was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1996.

Jean Marais appears in 8 films in The Rerun, from 1946 to 1967. Most of that work is in adventure, comedy and crime. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: André Hunebelle (4), Jean Cocteau (4), Louis de Funès (3), Mylène Demongeot (3), Robert Dalban (3).

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When was Jean Marais born?
Jean Marais was born on 11 December 1913.

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