Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean-Claude Carrière

1931-09-17 – 2021-02-08 (age 89) Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
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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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Known For

Certified Copy
Certified Copy

2010

as The Man at the Square

The Associate
The Associate

1979

as Un homme présent à la lecture du testament

The Associate
The Associate

1979

as Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited)

The Milky Way
The Milky Way

1969

as Priscillian

Avida
Avida

2006

as Le richa paranoïaque

L'Œuvre invisible
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Gala

2003

as Self

Serious as Pleasure
Serious as Pleasure

1975

as Le chef d'etage (uncredited)

Diary of a Chambermaid
Diary of a Chambermaid

1964

as Le curé

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Photo-souvenir

1978

as Prof. Henri Quissard

Surprise Sock
Surprise Sock

1978

as Fournier

The Night and the Moment
The Night and the Moment

1995

as Il governatore

Buñuel in Hollywood
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table

2001

as David Goldman

Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
Speaking of Buñuel
Vive les femmes !
Vive les femmes !

1984

as The deaf-mute

A Little Sun in Cold Water