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Jean-Claude Carrière

Born 1931-09-17
Died 2021-02-08
📍 Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France

Jean-Claude Carrière (17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later conferred an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in The Return of Martin Guerre (1983).

Carrière was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and was president of La Fémis, the French state film school that he helped establish. He was noted as a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of the latter's late French films.

Filmography 67

L'Œuvre invisible
as Self
2026
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
as Self
2022
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
as Self
2022
Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
as Self - Screenwriter
2021
Fifty Years Later
as Self
2019
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
as Self - Writer
2019
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
as Self
2018
The Collection
as Monsieur Klein
2018
Scenes from A Separation
as Self
2018
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
as Self - Filmmaker
2018
Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves
as Self
2018
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
as Self
2017
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
as Self
2017
Borsalino City
as Self - Scriptwriter
2016
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
as Self
2015
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
as Self
2015
Los chicos de la foto
as Self
2014
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
as Self
2014
The Mystery of the King of Kinema
as Self
2014
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
as Self
2013
Professor Goudet's Lessons
as Self
2013
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
as Self
2013
Carrière, 250 Meters
as Self
2011
Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
as Self
2011
Il était une fois... « King Kong »
as Self (scénariste)
2010
Certified Copy
as The Man at the Square
2010
And the blue sky
as Himself
2010
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
2009
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel
as Self
2008
Avida
as Le richa paranoïaque
2006
Una belleza nueva
as Self
2006
Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
as Self
2006
Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
as Self
2005
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
as Self
2004
Les Thibault
as Maître Roubiot
2003
Un film et son époque
as Self
2003
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
as David Goldman
2001
Madame De...
as Le ministre
2001
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
as Self
2000
Speaking of Buñuel
as Self
2000
Buñuel in Hollywood
as Self
2000
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
as Self
1998
The Night and the Moment
as Il governatore
1995
Bouvard et Pécuchet
as Récitant
1990
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
Vive les femmes !
as The deaf-mute
1984
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
as Self
1984
Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
as Self
1982
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
L'Amour nu
as Le professeur
1981
The Associate
as Un homme présent à la lecture du testament
1979
The Associate
as Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited)
1979
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
as Le psychiatre (uncredited)
1979
Surprise Sock
as Fournier
1978
The Game of Solitaire
as Luc
1976
The Garden of Torment
as The ship's captain
1976
Serious as Pleasure
as Le chef d'etage (uncredited)
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
Apostrophes
as Self
1975
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
A Little Sun in Cold Water
as François
1971
The Wedding Ring
as Hugues
1971
The Milky Way
as Priscillian
1969
Diary of a Chambermaid
as Le curé
1964
The Suitor
as TV presenter (uncredited)
1962
The Arbitrariness of Desire
as Himself