Jean-Claude Carriere Biography (1931-)

Born September 17 (some sources say September 19), 1931, in Colombieres-sur-Orbes (some sources say Languedoc), France; son of Felix (a farmer) and AliceCarriere; married Nicole (a painter and interior decorator), December 27, 1952; children: Iris. Addresses: Contact: The Lantz Office, 200 West 57thSt., Suite 503, New York, NY 10019.

Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupation: Screenwriter, actor, producer, director
Birth Details: September 17, 1931; Colombieres-sur-Orbes, France

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Appearances
Insomnie, 1963
The priest, Le journal d'une femme de chambre (also known as Ildiario di una cameriera, The Diary of a Chambermaid, and Diaryof a Chambermaid), Cocinor, 1964
Narrator, Les cocardiers, 1967
Priscillian, La voie lactee (also known as La via lattea, Die Milchstrasse, and The Milky Way), U-M, 1969
Hughes, L'alliance (also known as The Wedding Ring), CAPAC,1970
Francois, Nathalie's husband, Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (also known as A Little Sun in Cold Water, Un attimo d'amore, A Few Hours of Sunlight, Un po' di sole nell'acqua gelida, and Sunlight on Cold Water), Societe Nouvelle de Cinema, 1971
La chute d'un corps, 1973
Chief, Serieux comme le plaisir (also known as Serious as Pleasure), Lugo, 1974
Le jardin des supplices (also known as The Garden of Torment), New Realm Distributors/Parafrance, 1976
Luc, Le jeu du solitaire (also known as The Game of Solitaire), 1976
Doctor, Photo Souvenir, FR3, 1977
Le conseiller, Julie pot de colle (also known as Julie Gluepot), 1977 Fournier, Chaussette surprise (also known as Boum a l'hosto and Surprise Sock), 1978
Psychiatrist, Ils sont grands ces petits (also known as These Kids Are Grown-Ups, C'est la faute a papa, Si je suis comme ca c'est la faute a papa, and When I Was a Kid, I Didn't Dare), UnitedArtists/Exportation Francaise Cinematographique, 1979
Le professeur, L'amour nu, 1981
Le sourd-muet, Vive les femmes!, 1984
The Governor, The Night and the Moment (also known as La nuit et le moment and La notte e il momento), 1994
Professor, Jaya Ganga (also known as Java fille du Gange),Kismet Talkies, 1996
Himself, Les paradoxes de Bunuel, 1997
El mismo, A proposito de Bunuel (also known as A propos de Bunuel, Regarding Bunuel, and Speaking of Bunuel), 2000
David Goldman, Bunuel y la mesa rey Salomon (also known as Bunuel and King Solomon's Table), 2001
Pierre Raymond, Tajnata kniga, 2003
Film Director
(With Pierre Etaix), Rupture (short film), 1961
(With Etaix), Heureux anniversaire (short film; also known as Happy Anniversary), 1961
La pince a ongles (short film; also known as The Nail Clippers), 1968
(With Jerome Diamant-Berger and Olivier Assayas) L'unique (also known as The One and Only), AA Revcon/Films du Scorpion, 1985
Film Producer
Heureux anniversaire (short film; also known as Happy Anniversary), 1961
Television Appearances
Movies
Eliphas, La double vie de Theophraste Longuet, 1981
Cesar Pouyabere, L'ecarteur, 1982
Narrator, Bouvard et Pecuchet, 1989
Narrator, Eugenie Grandet, 1993
Le ministre, Madame de ... (also known as I gioielli di Madame), 2001
Miniseries
L'homme de la nuit, 1983
Specials
Milos Forman: Portrait, PBS, 1989
Himself, Bunuel en Hollywood, 2001
Episodic
Himself, Ombre et lumiere, 2001
Also appeared as le commissaire de police, "A la memoire d'un ange," Sueurs froides.
WRITINGS
Plays
L'aide-memoire, produced in Paris, 1968, then on Broadway as The Little Black Book, 1972, translation by Jerome Kilty published by Samuel French, c. 1973
(With Colin Higgins) Harold and Maude, produced 1971
Le xlient (also known as The Customer), produced in Paris,1971
(With Peter Brook and Marius Constant) La tragedie de Carmen (opera; abridgement of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen), produced in New YorkCity, 1983, published by Centre International de Creations Theatrales (Paris), 1981
The Conference of the Birds, published by Dramatic Publishing (Chicago, IL), 1982
(With Bernard Slade) La fille sur la banquette arriere, publishedby L'Avant Scene, 1983
(Adaptor; with Peter Brook) The Mahabharata, produced at New WaveFestival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, 1987, published by Harper, c. 1987
La terrasse, produced at Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, New YorkCity, 1999
Also adaptor of The Cherry Orchard; Timon of Athens; Measure for Measure; and The Tempest.
Screenplays
(With Pierre Etaix) Rupture (short film), 1961
(With Etaix) Heureux anniversaire (short film; also known as Happy Anniversary), 1961
(With Etaix) Nous n'irons plus au bois, 1963, re-released as Tant qu'on a la sante, 1965
(With Etaix) Insomnie, 1963
(With Etaix) Le soupirant (also known as The Suitor), Atlantic, 1963
La reine verte (also known as The Green Queen), 1964
(With Luis Bunuel) Le journal d'une femme de chambre (also known as Il diario di una cameriera, Diary of a Chambermaid, and The Diary of a Chambermaid), Cocinor, 1964
(With Louis Malle) Viva Maria!, United Artists, 1965
(With Etaix) Yo Yo (also known as Yoyo), Magna, 1965
Le bestiaire d'amour (also known as The Lair of Love), 1965
(With Jesus Franco) Miss Muerte (also known as Dans les griffesdu maniaque, The Diabolique Dr. Z, Le diabolique docteur Z, Miss Death, Miss Death and Dr. Z in the Grip of the Maniac, and The Diabolical Dr. Z), U.S. Films, 1966
(With Peter Glenville) Hotel Paradiso, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1966
Tant qu'on a la sante (also known as As Long As You're Healthy), 1966
Cartes sur table (also known as Attack of the Robots and Cartas boca arriba), American International, 1967
(With Malle) Le voleur (also known as The Thief of Paris and The Thief), Lopert, 1967
(With Bunuel) Belle de jour (also known as Bella di giorno), Allied Artists, 1968
La pince a ongles (short film; also known as The Nail Clippers), 1968
Le grand amour (also known as The Great Love), 1968
(With Bunuel) La voie lactee (also known as La via lattea, Die Milchstrasse, and The Milky Way), U-M, 1969
(With John-Emmanuel Conil and Jacques Deray) La piscine (also known as La piscina and The Swimming Pool), 1969, released in the United States by Avco Embassy, 1970
(With Christian De Chalonge) L'alliance (also known as The Wedding Ring), CAPAC, 1970
(With Jean Cau, Claude Sautet, and Deray) Borsalino, Paramount, 1970

(With Milos Forman, John Guare, and John Klein) Taking Off, Universal, 1971
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (also known as A Little Sunin Cold Water, Un attimo d'amore, A Few Hours of Sunlight, Po' di sole nell'acqua gelida, and Sunlight on Cold Water), Societe Nouvelle de Cinema, 1971
(With Francoise Xenakis, Jean Bolvary, and Eric Le Hung) Le droit d'aimer (also known as The Right to Love, Brainwashed, and Il diritto d'amare), Twentieth Century-Fox/Lira Films, 1972
(With Bunuel) Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (also known as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, El discreto encanto de la burguesia, and Il fascino discreto della borghesia), Twentieth Century-Fox/Castle Hill, 1972, published in Avant-Scene, April, 1973
(With Deray and Ian McLellen Hunter) Un homme est mort (also knownas A Man Is Dead, Funerale a Los Angeles, and The Outside Man), Valoria, 1972, released in the United States by United Artists, 1973
(With Marco Ferreri) La cagna (also known as Love to Eternity and Melampo), 1972, released in the United States as Liza, CFDC/Pathe/Oceanic/Sirius, 1976
(With Bunuel) Le moine (also known as The Monk and Il monaco), Maya, 1973
(With Peter Fleischmann) Dorothea's Rache (also known as Dorothea's Revenge and Dorothea), Planfilm, 1973
Grandeur nature (also known as Life Size (Grandezza naturale), Life Size, Love Doll, and Tamano natural), 1973
(With Jean-Claude Brialy) Un amour de pluie (also known as A Rainy Love, Loving in the Rain, Male d'amore, and Sommerliebelei), Lira, 1974
(With Bunuel) Le fantome de la liberte (also known as The Phantom of Liberty, Il fantasma della liberta, and The Specter of Freedom), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974
(With Robert Benayoun) Serieux comme le plaisir (also known as Serious as Pleasure), Lugo, 1974
(With Patrice Chereau) La chair de l'orchidee (also known as The Flesh of the Orchid, Das Fleisch der Orchidee, Flesh and theOrchid, and Un'orchidea rosso sangue), Fox-Lira, 1974
France societe anonyme (also known as France Incorporated, French Anonymity Society, and France Inc.), Albina, 1974
La femme aux bottes rouges (also known as The Lady with Red Boots, La mujer con botas rojas, La ragazza con gli stivali rossi, and La ragazza dagli stivali rossi), 1974
(With Martin Walser) La faille (also known as The Weak Spot, Der dritte grad, and La smagliatura), Gaumont, 1975
(With Jean Curtelin and Joel Santoni) Les oeufs brouilles (also known as The Scrambled Eggs), Columbia/Warner Distributors, 1975
(With Bunuel, Philippe Nuridzany, Pierre Maintigneux, and Clement BiddleWood) Leonor, CIC/New Line Cinema, 1975
(With Alphonse Boudard) Le gang (also known as The Gang andLa gang del parigino), Warner Bros., 1976
(With Bunuel) Cet obscur objet du desir (also known as That Obscure Object of Desire and Ese oscuro objeto del deseo), CCFC/Greenwich/Janus, 1976, released in the United States by First Artists, 1977
(With Pierre Lary and Huguette Debasieux) Le diable dans la boite(also known as The Devil in the Box), Madeleine/Societe Novelle de Cinema, 1977
Julie pot de colle (also known as Julie Glue Pot), Davis/Societe Nouvelle Prodis, 1977
(With Edmond Sechan) Photo Souvenir, FR3, 1977
(With Tonino Guerra) Un papillon sur l'epaule (also known as AButterfly on the Shoulder), Gaumont, 1978
(With Jean-Francois Davy) Chaussette surprise (also known as Surprise Sock and Boum a l'hosto), GEF/CCFC/Albatros, 1978
(With Daniel Boulanger and Joel Santoni) Ils sont grands ces petits (also known as These Kids Are Grown-Ups, C'est la faute a papa, Si je suis comme ca c'est la faute a papa, and When I Was a Kid,I Didn't Dare), United Artists/Exportation Francaise Cinematographique,1979
(With Rene Gainville) L'associe (also known as The Associate and Mein Partner Davis), Columbia/Warner Distributors, 1979
(With Claude Pinoteau and Charles Israel) L'homme en colere (alsoknown as The Angry Man and Jigsaw), Films Ariane/United Artists, 1979
(With Volker Schloendorff, Franz Seitz, and Gunter Grass) The Tin Drum (adapted from Grass's book of the same title; also known as Die Blechtrommel, Blaszany bebenek, and Le tambour), United Artists/New World, 1979
(With Jean-Francois Adam, Georges Perec, and Benoit Jacquot) Retour ala bien- aimee (also known as Return to the Beloved), Societe Nouvelle Prodis/World Marketing, 1979
Slachtvee, 1979
(With Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville) Sauve qui peut la vie (also known as Everyone for Himself, Rette sich, wer kann, Every Man for Himself, and Slow Motion), Artifical Eye/MK2/New Yorker, 1980
(With Volker Schloendorff, Margarethe Von Trotta, and Kai Hermann) DieFaelschung (also known as Circle of Deceit, Le faussaire,and False Witness), United International/United Artists Classics, 1981
Black Mirror (also known as Haute surveillance), 1981
(With Carlos Saura) Antonieta, Gaumont/Conacina/Nuevo Cine, 1982
(With Christian Drillaud) Itineraire bis (also known as Sideroads), Films de l'Arquebuse, 1982
L'indiscretion (also known as The Indiscretion), 1982
(With Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Boleslaw Michalek, and Jacek Gasiorowski) Danton, Triumph, 1983
(With Daniel Vigne) Le retour de Martin Guerre (also known as The Return of Martin Guerre), European International, 1983
(With Luciano Tovoli and Michel Piccoli) Le general de l'armee morte (also known as The General of the Dead Army, L'armata ritorna, and Il generale dell'armata morte), World Marketing/Union GeneraleCinematographique, 1983
(With Marius Constant and Peter Brook) La tragedie de Carmen (alsoknown as The Tragedy of Carmen and Die Tragoedie der Carmen),British Film Institute/MK2, 1983
(With Volker Schloendorff, Brook, and Marie-Helen Estienne) Un amour de Swann (also known as Swann in Love, Swann's Way, EineLiebe von Swann, and Remembrance of Things Past), Orion Classics,1984
La jeune fille et l'enfer (also known as The Young Girl and Hell and La joven y la tentacion), Orphee Arts/Exportation FrancaiseCinematographique, 1984
(With Jerome Diamant-Berger, Olivier Assayas, and Jacques Dorfman) L'unique (also known as The One and Only and The Original), AARevcon/Films du Scorpion, 1985
Auto defense, 1985
(With Nagisa Oshima) Max mon amour (also known as Max, My Love and Makkusu, mon amuru), Greenwich/AAA, 1986
(Adapter) La derniere image (also known as al-Coura al-akhira and Last Image), 1986
(With Peter Fleischmann and Gianfranco Mingozzi) Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (also known as The Exploits of a Young Don Juan and L'iniziazione), Exportation Francaise/AAA, 1987
(With Wajda, Holland, and Edward Zebrowsky) Les possedes (also known as The Possessed), Gaumont International, 1987
Hard to Be a God (also known as Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zusein, Trudno Byt Bogom, and Un dieu rebelle), 1988
(With Nicholas Klotz) La nuit Bengali (also known as Bengali Nights and The Bengali Night), Gaumont International, 1988
(With Philip Kaufman) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (adapted from Milan Kundera's book of the same title), Orion, 1988
(With Jerzy Kawlerowicz) Hostage of Europe, La Societe Cine-Alliance, 1989
J'ecris dans l'espace (also known as I Write in Space and Vite et loin), 1989
(With Peter Fleischman) Jeniec Europy, 1989
(With Milos Forman) Valmont, Orion Classics, 1989
(With Jean-Paul Rappeneau) Cyrano de Bergerac, Orion Classics, 1990
(With Malle) Milou en mai (also known as May Fools, Milou a maggio, and Milou in May), Orion Classics, 1990
(With Brook and Estienne) The Mahabharata, Reiner Moritz, 1990
(With Hector Babenco) At Play in the Fields of the Lord (also known as Brincando nos campos do senhor), Universal, 1991
Le retour de Casanova (also known as The Return of Casanovaand Casanova's Return), 1992
L'otage de l'Europe, 1992
Sommersby (from the original screenplay La retour de Martin Guerre), Warner Bros., 1993
The Night and the Moment (also known as La notte e il momento and La nuit et le moment), 1994
Le hussard sur le toit (also known as The Horseman on the Roof), 1995, released in the United States by Miramax Zoe Films, 1995
The Ogre (also known as Der Unhold and Le roi des aulnes), 1996
Golden Boy, 1996
Chinese Box, Trimark Pictures, 1997
Les paradoxes de Bunuel, 1997
The Dicing, 1998
La guerre dans le Haut-Pays (also known as War in the Highlands), Rezo Films, 1998
(Uncredited) Broken Dolls, 1999
Salsa (also known as Salsa!), 2000
Television Movies
Le Franc-tireur, 1978
(French adapter) Harold et Maud, 1978
(French adapter) Mesure pour mesure, 1979
Lundi, 1980
Le bouffon, 1981
La double vie de Theophraste Longuet, 1981
Je tue il (also known as I Kill He), 1982
(French adapter) La cerisaie, 1982
L'accompagnateur, 1982
(Adapter) Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan, 1982
Le jardinier recalcitrant, 1983
L'aide-memoire, 1984
Les etonnements d'un couple moderne, 1985
Bouvard et Pecuchet, 1989
Une femme tranquille (also known as Silent Woman), 1989
La controverse de Valladvoid, 1992
(Adapter) La duchesse de Langeais, 1995
Une femme explosive, 1996
Clarissa (also known as Clarissa--Traenen der Zaertlichkeit), 1998
(Adapter) Berenice, 2000
Madame de ... (also known as I gioielli di Madame), 2001
Adapter Lettre d'une inconnue (also known as Brief einer Unbekannten), 2001
La bataille d'Hernani, 2002
Ruy Blas, 2002
Television Miniseries
Associations de bienfaiteurs, 1994
Les Thibault, 2003
Television Specials
(Adapter) The Mahabharata, Channel Four, 1989
Television Episodes
Robinson Crusoe (also known as The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe), 1965
Books
Le lezard, 1957
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (novelization of the film), 1959
L'alliance, 1963
Mon oncle (novelization of the film), 1972
(Translator) Le clou brulant, 1972
Le pari, 1973
(Translator) Harold et Maude, 1974
Le carnaval et la politique, 1979
(Translator) The Mahabharata, Harper and Row, 1987
Also authored (with Daniel Vigne) Le retour de Martin Guerre (novelization of film); contributor to journals and periodicals.

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

The film Chinese Box was adapted by Carriere from his original story and released in 1997; the film The Bunuel Paradox was adapted froman idea of Carriere's and released in 1997.

OTHER SOURCES

Books

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 4: Writers and Production Artists, St. James Press, 1996

Periodicals

Variety, March 31, 2003, p. 20

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