Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French-American movie director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. His father was artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
As a movie director and actor, he made more than forty movie from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His movie "La Grande Illusion" (1937) and "The Rules of the Game" (1939). He received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry.
Renoir died in Beverly Hills, California on February 12, 1979 at the age of 84.