---
name: "Jean Castanier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-castanier"
fi1m_id: "jean-castanier"
tmdb_id: 1899215
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "3 March 1903"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T00:58:04.013255+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jean Castanier

## Identity

Jean Castanier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-castanier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-castanier
- **TMDB ID:** 1899215
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1899215

Production designer. Born 3 March 1903 in Blanes, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 3 March 1903, Blanes, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 crew, 1 other
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1899215

## Biography

Jean Castanier, also known as Joan Castanyer, was a Catalan painter, set designer, writer, actor and filmmaker. Born in Blanes, Girona, in 1903, he moved to Paris in 1925 and worked with Jean Renoir on several films of the 1930s.

He contributed to the production design of *Boudu Saved from Drowning* (1932) and other Renoir titles including *La Nuit du carrefour* (1933). He wrote the story for *The Crime of Monsieur Lange* (1936) and appeared as an actor in *L'Âge d'or* (1930) and *Elena and Her Men* (1956). Castanier also directed shorts and the feature *L'Homme qui revient de loin* (1950). He died in Antibes in 1972.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Boudu Saved from Drowning* (1932), Fi1m 82, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/boudu-saved-from-drowning.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *L'Âge d'or* (1930), Fi1m 74, as Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/lage-dor.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Elena and Her Men* (1956), as Isnard
- *The Man Who Returns from Afar* (1950), Director
- *The Crime of Monsieur Lange* (1936), Story
- *Boudu Saved from Drowning* (1932), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/boudu-saved-from-drowning.md)
- *L'Âge d'or* (1930), as Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited) — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/lage-dor.md)

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