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French director, screenwriter and sometime actor Jean Renoir, undated Portrait. Son of the famous impressionist painter Pierre August Renoir. It was after the first World War that Renoir began to make movies, originally for his wife the actress Catherine Hessling. By the thirties, he had become (along with second wife Marguerite Renoir) a social militant with links to the French Communist Party. Initially working primarily in French language productions, he began to lean more towards Hollywood as his reputation grew. Itwas in Beverly Hills that he died in 1979, aged eighty five. (KEYSTONE/CAMERA PRESS DIGITAL/STUDIO HARCOURT) === , , FRANCE OUT ===