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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Directing1930Paris, France

Biography

Jean-Luc Godard (December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement and was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.

Acting History

2023
2020
Anna Karina, Remember
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
The Image Book
as Narrator (voice)
2017
2016
2015
A German Youth
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Goodbye to Language
as Narrator (voice)
2013
3x3D
Director
3x3D
Writer
2010
Two in the Wave
as Self (archive footage)
Tribute to Eric Rohmer
as Self (uncredited)
Film Socialisme
Screenplay
2006
2004
2002
2001
2000
1998
1997
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
1996
For Ever Mozart
as Man pretending to play soccer (uncredited)
1995
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
as Self (uncredited)
1993
1992
Antigone
Thanks
1991
1990
1989
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
1988
King Lear
as Professor Pluggy
King Lear
Writer
King Lear
Director
King Lear
Editor
King Lear
Executive Producer
1987
Keep Your Right Up
as Idiot / Prince
1986
Routine Pleasures
as Self (Archive photos)
September September
as Self (archive footage)
1985
Apostrophes
TVas Self• 1 eps
Detective
Director
Detective
Screenplay
Hail Mary
Writer
Hail Mary
Director
1983
First Name: Carmen
as Uncle Jeannot (uncredited)
1982
Room 666
as Self
1981
Spécial cinéma
TVas Self• 7 eps
1980
1976
Here and Elsewhere
as Narrator (voice)
1972
Tout Va Bien
Director
1971
1 P.M.
as Self
1 P.M.
Director
1 P.M.
Director of Photography
1 P.M.
Writer
1970
Wind from the East
as Self (uncredited)
1969
Le Gai Savoir
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1968
Bambi
TVas Self• 2 eps
Cinétracts
Director
1967
Made in U.S.A
as Richard Politzer (voice) (uncredited)
Far from Vietnam
as Self (segment "Camera Eye")
La Chinoise
Director
Weekend
Director
Weekend
Writer
1966
The Defector
as Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited)
Carl Th. Dreyer
as Self (uncredited)
1965
Dim Dam Dom
TVas Self
Six in Paris
Director
Alphaville
Director
1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Man in Fez / Narrator (segment "Le Grand escroc") (uncredited)
The Married Woman
as The Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Band of Outsiders
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1963
Contempt
as Lang's Assistant Director
The Lovely Month of May
as Self (uncredited)
Le Petit Soldat
as Man at Railway Station (uncredited)
Cinépanorama
TVas Self• 2 eps
Contempt
Screenplay
Contempt
Director
Curd Cheese
Director
Curd Cheese
Screenplay
1962
Cléo from 5 to 7
as The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent Film
Vivre Sa Vie
as The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited)
Petit Jour
as Self
Sign of the Lion
as Le Mélomane (uncredited)
Fiancés on the Bridge
as Man with the Black Glasses
Vivre Sa Vie
Director
1961
A Story of Water
as The Young Man (voice)
Paris Belongs to Us
as Hans Lucas
A Woman Is a Woman
Title Designer
1960
Breathless
as The Snitch
Breathless
Director
Breathless
Screenplay
1959
The 400 Blows
as (voice)(uncredited)
1958
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
as Jules (voice) (uncredited)
Operation Concrete
as Narrator (voice)
1956
The Kreutzer Sonata
as Ami Journaliste
1955
A Flirtatious Woman
as The Man Who Looks at the Balcony (uncredited)
A Flirtatious Woman
Director of Photography
1951

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Personal Info

Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
12/3/1930
Day of Death
9/13/2022
Place of Birth
Paris, France