Jean-Luc Godard
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
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
Bambi
1948
Eurotrash
1993
Cinépanorama
1956
Ciné regards
1978
The 400 Blows
1959
Breathless
1960
Dim Dam Dom
1965
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962
Histoire(s) du cinéma
1988
Contempt
1963
Filmography
Apostrophes
as Self · 1975
Spécial cinéma
as Self · 1974
Bambi
as Self · 1948
Eurotrash
· 1993
Cinépanorama
as Self · 1956
Ciné regards
as Self · 1978
The 400 Blows
as (voix) (non crédité) · 1959
Breathless
as The Snitch · 1960
Dim Dam Dom
as Self · 1965
Cléo from 5 to 7
as The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent Film · 1962
Histoire(s) du cinéma
as Self · 1988
Contempt
as Lang's Assistant Director · 1963
Pour le plaisir
as Self · 1964
Vivre Sa Vie
as The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited) · 1962
Band of Outsiders
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1964
First Name: Carmen
as Uncle Jeannot (uncredited) · 1983
Scheherazade
as Handwalker · 1963
Faces Places
as Self · 2017
The Image Book
as Narrator (voice) · 2018
Série noire
as Self (uncredited) · 1984
France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
as Robert Linard (uncredited) · 1979
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
as Narrator (voice) · 1967
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication
as Self · 1976
Godard Cinema
as Self (archive footage) · 2023
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville on Google StreetView
as Self · 2018
Scénarios
as Self · 2024
The Married Woman
as The Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1964
Identidade
as Jean-Luc Godard (Imagens de Arquivo) · 2026
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Man in Fez / Narrator (segment "Le Grand escroc") (uncredited) · 1964
Wind from the East
as Self (uncredited) · 1970
From Darkness to Light
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2025
Sign of the Lion
as Le Mélomane (uncredited) · 1962
Le Petit Soldat
as Man at Railway Station (uncredited) · 1963
A Letter to Freddy Buache
as Self (uncredited) · 1983
Goodbye to Language
as Narrator (voice) · 2014
Close Up
as Self (archive footage) · 2012
King Lear
as Professor Pluggy · 1988
Being Bo Widerberg
as Self (archive footage) · 2025
Paradjanov, le dernier collage
as Self · 1995
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
as Self (archive footage) · 2016
Made in U.S.A
as Richard Politzer (voice) (uncredited) · 1967
Room 666
as Self · 1985
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1974
Far from Vietnam
as Self (segment "Camera Eye") · 1967
Notre Musique
as Self · 2004
Né
as Self · 1975
Le quadrille
as Self · 1950
The Defector
as Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited) · 1966
ORG
as Self (archive footage) · 1979
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
as Self (uncredited) · 1995
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage) · 2002
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
as Self (voice) (archive footage) · 1993
MORTEM IMAGINIS.
as Godard
Paris Belongs to Us
as Hans Lucas · 1961
Soft and Hard
as Self · 1985
Reporters
as Self · 1981
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2026
The Glass Castle
as Un voyageur qui sort de la Gare de l'Est (uncredited) · 1950
Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed
as Self (archive footage) · 2012
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
as Self (archive footage) · 2019
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage) · 2018
Marguerite as She Was
as Self (archive footage) · 2003
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
as Self(archive footage) · 2017
Morceaux de Cannes
· 2021
Cinématon XI
as N°106 · 1981
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
as Self (uncredited) · 2008
Meetin' WA
as Self · 1986
Fool’s Mate
as Party guest (uncredited) · 1956
Mag Bodard, un destin
as Self (archive footage) · 2005
Here and Elsewhere
as Narrator (voice) · 1976
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
as Self · 2001
Godard by Godard
as Self (archive footage) · 2023
La rouge et la noire
as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited) · 2011
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
as Self (archive footage) · 2005
One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
as Self · 1968
Sun in Your Eyes
· 1962
In the Darkness of Time
as (voice) (uncredited) · 2002
Fiancés on the Bridge
as Man with the Black Glasses · 1962
Only Godard
as Self · 2024
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
as Self (uncredited) · 1986
One Hero, The People
as Self (archive footage) · 2026
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice) · 1989
Death
as Self (voice) · 2024
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
as Self (archive footage) · 2011
Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
as Self · 2024
Anna Karina, Remember
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2020
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
as Jules (voice) (uncredited) · 1958
Film catastrophe
as Self · 2018
Brunes et Blondes
as Self · 2010
Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice) · 2006
Keep Your Right Up
as Idiot / Prince · 1987
We're All Still Here
as The Actor · 1997
Iter
as Self · 2020
Say God Bye
as Self (JLG) · 2023
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice) · 2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us
as Self (uncredited) · 2006
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
as Self · 2001
The Kreutzer Sonata
as Ami Journaliste · 1956
Paparazzi
as Self · 1964
A Weekend at the Beach
as Self · 2015
Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais
as Self · 2011
The Story of "Scénario"
as Self (archive footage) · 2025
For Ever Mozart
as Man Pretending to Play Soccer (uncredited) · 1996
The Lovely Month of May
as Self (uncredited) · 1963
Joy of Learning
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1969
Little Godard
as Guest · 1978
JLG\PG
as Self · 2009
Filmmakers in Action
as Self (archive footage) · 2006
Vladimir and Rosa
as Vladimir Lenin (uncredited) · 1971
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
as Walter · 1951
Bardot et Godard
as Self · 1964
Godard in America
as Self · 1970
A German Youth
as Self (archive footage) · 2015
Godard: History: Passion
as Self · 1983
See You Friday, Robinson
as Self · 2022
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
as Self · 1997
Ecce Homo
as Narrator (voice) · 2006
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
as Self · 1992
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
as Self (archive footage) · 2012
Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
as Self (voice) (uncredited) · 2006
Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
as Self · 1982
Operation Concrete
as Narrator (voice) · 1958
Number Two
as Self (uncredited) · 1975
Two in the Wave
as Self (archive footage) · 2010
Belmondo, le magnifique
as Self (archive footage) · 2017
France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
as Robert Linard · 1979
Duras/Godard
as Self · 1987
Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française
as Self · 1985
A Flirtatious Woman
as The Man Who Looks at the Balcony (uncredited) · 1955
Conversation with JLG
as Self · 2010
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication
as Self · 1976
Godard on TV: 1960-2000
as Self (archive footage) · 1999
A Story of Water
as The Young Man (voice) · 1961
Scénario du film Passion
as Narrator / Self · 1982
Godard Etkisi
as Self (archive footage) · 2021
86 printemps, Jean-Luc Godard
as Self · 2021
Alianças Profanas
as Self · 2022
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice) · 2006
Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
as Self · 1966
Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making
as Self · 1968
Hail, Sarajevo
as Narrator (voice) · 1993
Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
as Self · 1981
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice) · 1989
How's It Going?
as Union Member (voice) · 1978
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
as Self (archive footage) · 2018
Cinématon
as N°106 · 1978
Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
as Self (archive footage) · 2021
The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Self · 1967
Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
as Self/Narrator · 2023
Carl Th. Dreyer
as Self (uncredited) · 1966
Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
as Self · 1966
Bardot, The Misunderstanding
· 2013
After the Reconciliation
as Robert · 2000
Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard
as Self · 2009
The Bardot mystery
· 2012
Françoise et Udo...
as Self · 1968
Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings
as Self · 2010
Moving Pictures
as Self · 1994
Godard / Sollers : L’entretien
as Self · 1985
Carottage
as self · 2013
Conversation entre Jean-Luc Godard et Jacques Rivette
as Self · 2017
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave
as Self (uncredited) · 2006
Memória Cubana
as Self (archive footage) · 2010
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
as Self (uncredited) · 2006
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
as Self · 1964
Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage) · 2008
Cinématon n°106 : Jean-Luc Godard
· 1981
On the Trail of the New Wave
as Self (archive footage) · 2009
Four Short Films
as Self - Narrator · 2006
Mai en décembre: Godard en Abitibi
as Self (archive footage) · 2000
Ensemble et séparés : sept rendez-vous avec Jean-Luc Godard
as Self · 2010
Festivals 66 Cinéma 67
as Self · 1967
Das ist nur der Anfang - der Kampf geht weiter
· 1968
Full Metal Kuleshov Effect
as Self · 2023
The Death of Jean-Luc Godard
· 2025
The Darty Report
as Nathanael, the 2000 Year-Old Robot · 1989
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux
as Narrator (voice) · 2014
1 P.M.
as Self · 1971
The Children Play Russian
as Prince Mishkin, the Idiot · 1993
Notre musique / Séquence 23
as Self · 2026
Léaud l'unique
as Self - filmmaker · 2001
Determination
as Self (archival footage) · 2026
What's Wrong with the World
as Narrator (voice) · 1996
Tribute to Eric Rohmer
as Self (uncredited) · 2010
Once Upon a Time… Contempt
as Self · 2009
Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965
as Self · 1965
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
as Self · 1967
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
as Self · 2004
Official Spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF
· 2018
Notes on Hail Mary
as Self · 1983
Noises From The Agora
as Self · 2025
Anna and the Jellyfish
as Self (archive footage) · 2020
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
as Self · 2000
The Old Place
as Self / Narrator (voice) · 2000
Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 11
as Self · 1978
JDP/JLG 1963-2012
as Himself · 2012
Brève rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma comme métaphore
as Self · 2005
Printtemps
as Self (archive footage) · 2020
Willing
as Self (uncredited) · 1969
Cinema According to Jean-Luc
as Self · 1965
The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'
as Self
The Bridge of Sighs
as Narrator (voice) · 2014
Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud
· 1994
Entretien entre Serge Daney et Jean-Luc Godard
as Self · 1988
Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive
as Self · 2015
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe
as Self (uncredited) · 2006
Voices
as Self · 1969
Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard
as Self · 1969
Routine Pleasures
as Self (archive footage) · 1986
Deuses de Mentira
as (Archive Sound) · 2009
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
as Self · 2012
To Alter the Image
as The Idiot (uncredited) · 1982
Lila
as Self · 2023
The Three Disasters
as Narrator · 2013
The Staircase Wall
as Self (voice, archive footage) · 2023
Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 10
as Self · 1978
September September
as Self (archive footage) · 1986
G(ode)ard
as JLG · 2022
Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 1
as Self · 1978
Petit Jour
as Self · 1962
Godard 1980
as Self · 1980
Godard Is Here
as Self · 2023
Adieu au TNS
as Self · 1998
Accomplice
as Self (archive footage) · 2010
Vrai faux passeport
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2006