Jean-Claude Carrière
Born September 17, 1931 (Age: 94)
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Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
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.
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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Filmography
L'Œuvre invisible
2026
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as Self
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Age: 94
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
2022
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as Self
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Age: 91
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Mostashregh
2019
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as Self
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Age: 88
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
2015
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as Self
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Age: 83
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Miloš Forman
2010
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as Self
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Age: 78
Il était une fois... « King Kong »
2010
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as Self (scénariste)
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Age: 78
Certified Copy
2010
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as The Man at the Square
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Age: 78
And the blue sky
2010
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as Himself
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Age: 78
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
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as Self
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Age: 78
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Rituals
2007
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as Self
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Age: 75
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The Secret Book
2006
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as Pierre Reymond
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Age: 75
Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
2006
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as Self
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Age: 74
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Un Ange dans les marécages
2006
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as Self
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Age: 74
Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
2005
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as Self
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Age: 74
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Une promenade parmi les ombres
2005
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as Himself
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Age: 74
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
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as Self
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Age: 72
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Biblioteca Mindlin
2002
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as
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Age: 70
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000
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as Self
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Age: 68
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
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as Self
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Age: 68
Buñuel in Hollywood
2000
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as Self
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Age: 68
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
1998
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as Self
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Age: 66
Bouvard et Pécuchet
1990
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as Récitant
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Age: 59
L'Amour nu
1981
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as Le professeur
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Age: 50
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Photo-souvenir
1978
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as Prof. Henri Quissard
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Age: 47
Surprise Sock
1978
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as Fournier
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Age: 46
The Milky Way
1969
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as Priscillian
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Age: 37
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964
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as Le curé
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Age: 32
The Suitor
1962
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as TV presenter (uncredited)
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Age: 31