Jean-Claude Carrière

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-09-17 (90 years old)

Deathday

2021-02-08

Place of Birth

Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France

Jean-Claude Carrière

Biography

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, ...

Acting

2010

Certified Copy

as The Man at the Square

1995

The Night and the Moment

as Il governatore

1979

These Kids Are Grown-Ups

as Le psychiatre (uncredited)

2003

Gala

as Self

1971

1978

Surprise Sock

as Fournier

1979

The Associate

as Un homme présent à la lecture du testament

2010

2006

The Secret Book

as Pierre Reymond

2016

Borsalino City

as Self - Scriptwriter

2010

2006

Avida

as Le richa paranoïaque

1976

The Garden of Torment

as The ship's captain

2001

Madame De...

as Le ministre

1964

2010

1979

The Associate

as Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited)

2018

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

as Self - Filmmaker

1981

L'Amour nu

as Le professeur

2018

The Collection

as Monsieur Klein

1978

Photo-souvenir

as Prof. Henri Quissard

2007

Rituals

as Self

1969

The Milky Way

as Priscillian

1962

The Suitor

as TV presenter (uncredited)

1990

2019

Mostashregh

as Himself

Production

1967

Belle de Jour

as Screenplay

1979

The Tin Drum

as Screenplay

1990

May Fools

as Screenplay

2004

Birth

as Screenplay

1983

Danton

as Screenplay

1997

Chinese Box

as Writer

2002

Ruy Blas

as Screenplay

2006

Goya's Ghosts

as Screenplay

1995

1990

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Screenplay

1965

Viva Maria!

as Screenplay

1966

1969

The Milky Way

as Writer

1966

1968

1988

The Possessed

as Screenplay

1981

1962

The Suitor

as Screenplay

2007

Ulzhan

as Scenario Writer

1965

Yoyo

as Screenplay

1967

The Thief of Paris

as Screenplay

2021

The Crusade

as Writer

1972

The Monk

as Screenplay

1966

1969

2012

2011

1980

Every Man for Himself

as Scenario Writer

1969

Le Grand Amour

as Screenplay

1962

Happy Anniversary

as Co-Writer

1962

1969

1961

Rupture

as Co-Writer

1961

Rupture

as Director

2020

1970

Borsalino

as Writer

1975

1996

Golden Boy

as Writer

1982

La Cerisaie

as Adaptation

1990

2022

1975

Weak Spot

as Screenplay

1982

Antonieta

as Writer

1971

1972

The Right to Love

as Screenplay

1984

Swann in Love

as Writer

1978

Surprise Sock

as Writer

1982

1979

The Angry Man

as Writer

1975

Leonor

as Writer

1965

2023

The Plough

as Screenplay

1977

1981

Black Mirror

as Screenplay

1985

Lancement réussi

as Scenario Writer

1977

The Gang

as Screenplay

1979

The Associate

as Dialogue

1979

The Associate

as Screenplay

1972

Liza

as Writer

1974

1996

The Ogre

as Screenplay

1999

Broken Dolls

as Story

2001

Madame De...

as Writer

1969

The Nail Clippers

as Screenplay

1974

Dorothea's Revenge

as Screenplay

1963

Insomnia

as Writer

1972

2015

1986

Max My Love

as Writer

2017

Lover for a Day

as Screenplay

2018

1986

The Wolf at the Door

as Scenario Writer

2012

1989

2000

Salsa

as Writer

1975

1998

Clarissa

as Writer

1986

L'Unique

as Writer

1986

L'Unique

as Dialogue

2000

Bérénice

as Writer

2018

1982

1978

2015

A Bigger Splash

as Adaptation

2015

A Bigger Splash

as Dialogue

1978

1990

1971

Taking Off

as Writer

1978

1983

Credo

as Writer

1979

Beef Cattle

as Writer

1989

The Silent Woman

as Screenplay

1995

2013

The Patience Stone

as Screenplay

2020

The Salt of Tears

as Screenplay

-

Micromeo

as Writer

1972

The Outside Man

as Screenplay

1974

Life Size

as Writer

2006

1983

Side Roads

as Writer

1984

1988

1989

Valmont

as Screenplay

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