
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. In 1975 Jean Renoir received an Academy Award for his lifetime contribution to the cinema.

He directed his first film, La Fille de l’eau, in 1925 and followed it with many others, including his masterpieces Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939).


Jean Renoir (1894–1979), the son of the painter Auguste Renoir, was born in Paris, grew up in the south of France, and served as a cavalryman and pilot during World War I.
