Renoir recalled that his father took particular delight in his childish profusion of hair: In his memoirs, "My Life and My Films," published in 1974, Mr. Jean Renoir's familiar, invigorating, cherubic visage as a child was immortalized by his father. He served as the director of photography on a number of his uncle's films in the 1950s. Pierre's son Claude has become one of the most respected cinematographers in international filmmaking. Renoir, achieved fame as an actor in French plays and films. The eldest son, Pierre, nine years older than Mr. He was the second of three sons born to the master Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir and his wife Aline Charigot. He directed several American films while in exile from Occupied France during World War II, and returned to live in Los Angeles in the mid-'60s, occasionally teaching courses at the Univesity of California film school there.
Renoir had been confined to a wheelchair since the operation. Renoir from attending Academy Award ceremonies in 1975 at which he was scheduled to receive an honorary Oscar. Renoir had been in declining health for the past few years.Īn operation on a leg injured 60 years earlier by a German sniper's bullet prevented Mr. Jean Renoir, a great artist's son who achieved greatness himself as a motion picture director, died yesterday at the age of 84 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.īest known for "La Grande Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game," two masterworks made in his native France in the late 1930s, Mr.
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