Claude Renoir(1913-1993)
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Set Decorator
Apprenticed under noted cinematographers Christian Matras and Boris Kaufman and shot
or co-shot several films directed by his uncle, Jean Renoir. Renoir did the
photography for one of his uncle's cinematic apogees, _Une partie de campagne (1936)_ and was
the camera operator for the tragic, ebullient master text The Grand Illusion (1937). As a
cinematographer, Claude Renoir was responsible for the luminous color
work of The River (1951), _Carrosse d'or, Le (1952)_ and Elena and Her Men (1956). He also generated the stark
black-and-white compositions of Maurice Cloche's Monsieur Vincent (1947) and the psychedelic
60s colors of Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968). Renoir lensed a stunning array of
films, including The Mystery of Picasso (1956), Cleopatra (1963) and Bertrand Blier's Femmes Fatales (1976). After his
final DP credit, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Renoir worked as a cameraman on three films
as he, sadly, lost his sight. Son of character actor Pierre Renoir.
