Jean-Claude Carrière
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
Certified Copy
as The Man at the Square 2010
Diary of a Chambermaid
as Le curé 1964
The Milky Way
as Priscillian 1969
Avida
as Le richa paranoïaque 2006
The Suitor
as TV presenter (uncredited) 1962
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
as David Goldman 2001
Vive les femmes !
as The deaf-mute 1984
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
as Self 2017
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
as Self - Filmmaker 2018
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
as Self 2018
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
as Le psychiatre (uncredited) 1979
Speaking of Buñuel
as Self 2000
The Garden of Torment
as The ship's captain 1976
The Associate
as Un homme présent à la lecture du testament 1979
The Associate
as Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited) 1979
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self 2009
The Night and the Moment
as Il governatore 1995