Name Alain Renoir Role Professor | Movies The Rules of the Game Cousins Claude Renoir | |
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Died December 12, 2008, Esparto, California, United States Books A Key to Old Poems: The Oral-formulaic Approach to the Interpretation of West-Germanic Verse Parents Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling Similar People Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling, Claude Renoir, Dido Renoir, Roland Toutain | ||
Alain Renoir (October 31, 1921 – December 12, 2008) was a French-American writer and literature professor, son of filmmaker Jean Renoir and actress Catherine Hessling, and grandson of impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Renoir was born in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the only son of Jean Renoir. As a teenager Renoir worked in a few of his father's films, including House Party (1936), as assistant cameraman on The Human Beast (1938) and The Rules of the Game (1939). In 1942 he joined his father in the United States, enlisted in the American Army and served in combat in the Pacific.
After the war, he studied English literature and comparative literature and became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was considered a leading scholar of medieval English literature and published books on Beowulf and John Lydgate.
He had three children, John, Peter and Anne.