Claude Renoir

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Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913[1] September 5,

1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of
actor Pierre Renoir and nephew of director Jean Renoir
and also the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

[1] Some sources, such as Ginette Vincendeaus Encyclopedia

of European Cinema, London: Cassell/BFI, 1995, p.328
indicate 1914 as his year of birth

He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Vra

Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother
of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United
States on such lms as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir
was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as
Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoirs The River (1951),
Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and
the James Bond lm The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At
the time of Claude Renoirs death, The Times of London
wrote of The River that its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema,
one in which color was nally accepted as a medium t
for great lm makers to work in.[2]

[2] see Eric Pace Claude Renoir, 79, A Cinematographer

With a Painters Eye, New York Times, 13 September
1993
[3] Signoret, Simone (1978). Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to
Be. Harper & Row. p. 139. ISBN 0-06-013986-2.
[4] Renoir mss., ca. 1913-1968, Indiana University Online
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Claude Renoir at the Internet Movie Database

He also participated in the making of The Mystery of

Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the
cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in
East Germany during lming.[3] Renoirs career came to
a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight.
In his nal years he was largely blind.
He married twice and had two children, a son and a
daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at
age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village
of Essoyes, where he had a home.
Renoir sometimes worked on the same lms as his uncle and namesake Claude Renoir[2] ain (senior), nicknamed 'Coco', (190169),[4] and many reference sources
(including IMDb) combine the career credits of the two
men as if they were the same person.

Selected lmography
Toni (1935)
Serenade (1940)
Jericho (1946)
The Ideal Couple (1946)
One Life (1958)
Une femme dle (1976)
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