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, 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.
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Acting History
2025
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible as Self (archive footage)
2022Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel as Self
2022Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau as Self
2021Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance as Self - Screenwriter
2019Fifty Years Later as Self
2019Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason as Self - Writer
2019Mostashregh as Self
2018The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein as Self
2018The Collection as Monsieur Klein
2018Scenes from A Separation as Self
2018Searching for Ingmar Bergman as Self - Filmmaker
2018Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves as Self
2017Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self
2017Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens as Self
2016Borsalino City as Self - Scriptwriter
2015Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí as Self
2015Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin as Self
2014Los chicos de la foto as Self
2014Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau as Self
2014The Mystery of the King of Kinema as Self
2013En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
2013Professor Goudet's Lessons as Self
2013Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' as Self
2011Pierre Étaix, un destin animé as Self
2011Carrière, 250 Meters as Self
2010Miloš Forman as Self
2010Il était une fois... « King Kong » as Self (scénariste)
2010Certified Copy as The Man at the Square
2010And the blue sky as Himself
2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
2008The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel as Self
2007Rituals as Self
2006The Secret Book as Pierre Reymond
2006Avida as Le richa paranoïaque
2006Una belleza nueva as Self
2006Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' as Self
2006Un Ange dans les marécages as Self
2005Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God as Self
2005Une promenade parmi les ombres as Himself
2004The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
2003Les Thibault as Maître Roubiot
2003Gala as Self
2003Un film et son époque as Self
2002Biblioteca Mindlin
2001Bunuel and King Solomon's Table as David Goldman
2001Madame De... as Le ministre
2000Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète as Self
2000Speaking of Buñuel as Self
2000Buñuel in Hollywood as Self
1998Vivement dimanche as Self
1998Les paradoxes de Buñuel as Self
1995The Night and the Moment as Il governatore
1990Bouvard et Pécuchet as Récitant
1987Nulle part ailleurs as Self
1987Matin Bonheur as Self
1984Vive les femmes ! as The deaf-mute
1984The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel as Self
1982Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario as Self
1982Champs-Elysées as Self
1981L'Amour nu as Le professeur
1979The Associate as Un homme présent à la lecture du testament
1979The Associate as Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited)
1979These Kids Are Grown-Ups as Le psychiatre (uncredited)
1978Photo-souvenir as Prof. Henri Quissard
1978Surprise Sock as Fournier
1976The Game of Solitaire as Luc
1976The Garden of Torment as The ship's captain
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1975Apostrophes as Self
1974Spécial cinéma as Self
1971A Little Sun in Cold Water as François
1971The Wedding Ring as Hugues
1969The Milky Way as Priscillian
1964Diary of a Chambermaid as Le curé
1962The Suitor as TV presenter (uncredited)
—The Arbitrariness of Desire as Himself