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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Directing•Born December 3, 1930•Died September 13, 2022 (age 91)•Paris, 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.

Known For

Apostrophes

Apostrophes

1975•TV Series•
8.5
Spécial cinéma

Spécial cinéma

1974•TV Series•
9.5
Bambi

Bambi

1948•TV Series•
9.0
Cinépanorama

Cinépanorama

1956•TV Series•
8.7
Eurotrash

Eurotrash

1993•TV Series•
6.5
The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows

1959•Movie•
8.0
Breathless

Breathless

1960•Movie•
7.5
Dim Dam Dom

Dim Dam Dom

1965•TV Series•
8.0

Filmography

2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie
2026
Identidade

as Jean-Luc Godard (Imagens de Arquivo)

Movie
2026
One Hero, The People

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2025
Noises From The Agora

as Self

Movie
2025
The Death of Jean-Luc Godard
Movie
2025
The Story of "Scénario"

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2025
Being Bo Widerberg

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2025
From Darkness to Light

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2024
Death

as Self (voice)

Movie
2024
Scénarios

as Self

Movie
2024
Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"

as Self

Movie
2024
Only Godard

as Self

Movie
2023
Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars

as Self/Narrator

Movie
2023
The Staircase Wall

as Self (voice, archive footage)

Movie
2023
Say God Bye

as Self (JLG)

Movie
2023
Godard Cinema

as Self

Movie
2023
Godard by Godard

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2023
Godard Is Here

as Self

Movie
2023
Lila

as Self

Movie
2023
Full Metal Kuleshov Effect

as Self

Movie
2022
G(ode)ard

as JLG

Movie
2022
See You Friday, Robinson

as Self

Movie
2022
Alianças Profanas

as Self

Movie
2021
86 printemps, Jean-Luc Godard

as Self

Movie
2021
Godard Etkisi

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2021
Morceaux de Cannes
Movie
2021
Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2020
Printtemps

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2020
Anna and the Jellyfish

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2020
Anna Karina, Remember

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie
2020
Iter

as Self

Movie
2019
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2018
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2018
Film catastrophe

as Self

Movie
2018
The Image Book

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2018
Mireille Darc, la femme libre

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2018
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville on Google StreetView

as Self

Movie
2018
Official Spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF
Movie
2017
Belmondo, le magnifique

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2017
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum

as Self(archive footage)

Movie
2017
Conversation entre Jean-Luc Godard et Jacques Rivette

as Self

Movie
2017
Faces Places

as Self

Movie
2016
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2015
A Weekend at the Beach

as Self

Movie
2015
A German Youth

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2015
Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive

as Self

Movie
2014
Goodbye to Language

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2014
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2013
Bardot, The Misunderstanding
Movie
2013
The Three Disasters

as Narrator

Movie
2013
Carottage

as self

Movie
2012
Freddy Buache, le cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2012
Quod Erat Demonstrandum

as Self

Movie
2012
Close Up

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2012
Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2012
The Bardot mystery
Movie
2011
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2011
La rouge et la noire

as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
2011
Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais

as Self

Movie
2010
Conversation with JLG

as Self

Movie
2010
Brunes et Blondes

as Self

Movie
2010
Memória Cubana

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2010
Two in the Wave

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2010
Accomplice

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2010
Ensemble et séparés : sept rendez-vous avec Jean-Luc Godard

as Self

Movie
2010
Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings

as Self

Movie
2010
Tribute to Eric Rohmer

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
2009
Deuses de Mentira

as (Archive Sound)

Movie
2009
Once Upon a Time… Contempt

as Self

Movie
2009
On the Trail of the New Wave

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2009
Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard

as Self

Movie
2009
JLG\PG

as Self

Movie
2008
Back to Room 666

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2006
Filmmakers in Action

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2006
Vrai faux passeport

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2006
Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)

as Self (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
2006
Four Short Films

as Self - Narrator

Movie
2006
Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma

as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Movie
2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty

as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Movie
2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema

as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Movie
2006
Ecce Homo

as (voice)

Movie
2005
Mag Bodard, un destin

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2005
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2005
Brève rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma comme métaphore

as Self

Movie
2004
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin

as Self

Movie
2004
Notre Musique

as Self

Movie
2003
Marguerite as She Was

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2002
Heart of the Festival

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2001
Léaud l'unique

as Self - filmmaker

Movie
2001
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!

as Self

Movie
2001
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

as Self

Movie
2000
After the Reconciliation

as Robert

Movie
2000
The Old Place

as Self / Narrator (voice)

Movie
2000
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas

as Self

Movie
2000
Mai en décembre: Godard en Abitibi

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1999
Godard on TV: 1960-2000

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1998
Adieu au TNS

as Self

Movie
1997
We're All Still Here

as The Actor

Movie
1997
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

as Self

Movie
1996
For Ever Mozart

as Man pretending to play soccer (uncredited)

Movie
1996
What's Wrong With The World

as (voice)

Movie
1995
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1995
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1995
Paradjanov, le dernier collage

as Self

Movie
1994
Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud
Movie
1994
Moving Pictures

as Self

Movie
1993
Eurotrash
TV
1993
The Children Play Russian

as Prince Mishkin, the Idiot

Movie
1993
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Movie
1993
Hail, Sarajevo

as Narrator

Movie
1992
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

as Self

Movie
1989
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories

as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Movie
1989
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Movie
1989
Histoire(s) du cinéma

as Self

TV
1989
The Darty Report

as Nathanael, the 2000 Year-Old Robot

Movie
1988
King Lear

as Professor Pluggy

Movie
1988
Entretien entre Serge Daney et Jean-Luc Godard

as Self

Movie
1987
Keep Your Right Up

as Idiot / Prince

Movie
1987
Duras/Godard

as Self

Movie
1986
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1986
Meetin' WA

as Self

Movie
1986
Routine Pleasures

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1986
September September

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1985
Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française

as Self

Movie
1985
Soft and Hard

as Self

Movie
1985
Godard / Sollers : L’entretien

as Self

Movie
1985
Room 666

as Self

Movie
1984
Série noire

as Self (uncredited)

TV
1983
First Name: Carmen

as Uncle Jeannot (uncredited)

Movie
1983
A Letter to Freddy Buache

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1983
Godard: History: Passion

as Self

Movie
1983
Notes on Hail Mary

as Self

Movie
1982
Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario

as Self

Movie
1982
To Alter the Image

as The Idiot (uncredited)

Movie
1982
Scénario du film Passion

as Narrator / Self

Movie
1981
Reporters

as Self

Movie
1981
Cinématon XI

as N°106

Movie
1981
Cinématon n°106 : Jean-Luc Godard
Movie
1981
Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))

as Self

Movie
1980
Godard 1980

as Self

Movie
1979
ORG

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1979
France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

as Robert Linard

Movie
1979
France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

as Robert Linard (uncredited)

TV
1978
Cinématon

as N°106

Movie
1978
Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 11

as Self

Movie
1978
Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 10

as Self

Movie
1978
Little Godard

as Guest

Movie
1978
How's It Going?

as Union Member (voice)

Movie
1978
Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 1

as Self

Movie
1976
Here and Elsewhere

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1976
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication

as Self

TV
1976
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication

as Self

Movie
1975
Né

as Self

Movie
1975
Number Two

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1975
Apostrophes

as Self

TV
1974
Spécial cinéma

as Self

TV
1974
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1971
1 P.M.

as Self

Movie
1971
Vladimir and Rosa

as Vladimir Lenin (uncredited)

Movie
1970
Wind from the East

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1970
Godard in America

as Self

Movie
1969
Joy of Learning

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1969
Willing

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1969
Voices

as Self

Movie
1969
Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard

as Self

Movie
1968
One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks

as Self

Movie
1968
Françoise et Udo...

as Self

Movie
1968
Das ist nur der Anfang - der Kampf geht weiter
Movie
1968
Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making

as Self

Movie
1967
Far from Vietnam

as Self (segment "Camera Eye")

Movie
1967
Festivals 66 Cinéma 67

as Self

Movie
1967
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1967
The Dinosaur and the Baby

as Self

Movie
1967
Made in U.S.A

as Richard Politzer (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1967
Civilisation: L'homme et les images

as Self

Movie
1966
Carl Th. Dreyer

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1966
Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966

as Self

Movie
1966
The Defector

as Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited)

Movie
1966
Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson

as Self

Movie
1965
Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965

as Self

Movie
1965
Dim Dam Dom

as Self

TV
1965
Cinema According to Jean-Luc

as Self

Movie
1964
The Married Woman

as The Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1964
Paparazzi

as Self

Movie
1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

as Man in Fez / Narrator (segment "Le Grand escroc") (uncredited)

Movie
1964
Band of Outsiders

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1964
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

as Self

Movie
1964
Bardot et Godard

as Self

Movie
1963
Contempt

as Lang's Assistant Director

Movie
1963
Scheherazade

as Handwalker

Movie
1963
The Lovely Month of May

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1963
Le Petit Soldat

as Man at Railway Station (uncredited)

Movie
1962
Vivre Sa Vie

as The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1962
Sun in Your Eyes
Movie
1962
Sign of the Lion

as Le Mélomane (uncredited)

Movie
1962
Fiancés on the Bridge

as Man with the Black Glasses

Movie
1962
Cléo from 5 to 7

as The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent Film

Movie
1962
Petit Jour

as Self

Movie
1961
Paris Belongs to Us

as Hans Lucas

Movie
1961
A Story of Water

as The Young Man (voice)

Movie
1960
Breathless

as The Snitch

Movie
1959
The 400 Blows

as (voix) (non crédité)

Movie
1958
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend

as Jules (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1958
Operation Concrete

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1956
Fool’s Mate

as Party guest (uncredited)

Movie
1956
Cinépanorama

as Self

TV
1956
The Kreutzer Sonata

as Ami Journaliste

Movie
1955
A Flirtatious Woman

as The Man Who Looks at the Balcony (uncredited)

Movie
1951
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak

as Walter

Movie
1950
The Glass Castle

as Un voyageur qui sort de la Gare de l'Est (uncredited)

Movie
1950
Le quadrille

as Self

Movie
1948
Bambi

as Self

TV
—
MORTEM IMAGINIS.

as Godard

Movie
—
The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'

as Self

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentDirecting
BirthdayDecember 3, 1930
Day of DeathSeptember 13, 2022
Place of BirthParis, France
Popularity1.5