His son Jean "painted" landscapes and people with a movie camera. His masterpiece is considered to be the "Grande illusion" (1937) but I also like his "French Cancan" (1955). He tried (unsuccessfully) to make a Hollywood career during the second world war, he came back to Europe to shoot some more and later retired in the US where he died on February 12, 1979 in Beverley Hills. At his death, his friend and fellow-director Orson Welles wrote an article in the LA Times which he entitled "Jean Renoir, the greatest of all directors". His body was brought back to France so that he could be burried together with his parents in the small village of Essoyes in Burgundy as it was his mother's hometown.