About

Known credits:
32
Birthday:
1939-07-26
Place of birth:
Paris, France
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Jean-Claude Grumberg

Overview

Jean-Claude Grumberg (born 1939) is a French playwright and author of children's books.

Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama being an actor in the company. He became a writer in 1968 with Demain, une fenêtre sur rue, and short texts like Rixe which played at the Comédie-Française. He writes about what haunts him since childhood: the death of his father in the Nazi death camps: Maman revient pauvre orphelin, Dreyfus (1974), L'Atelier (1979) and Zone libre (1990).

In 1998, L'Atelier returned to Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, won great success and won the 1999 Molière for best play directory.

In film, he is writer: Les Années Sandwiches, co-writer with François Truffaut for The Last Metro, La Petite Apocalypse of Costa-Gavras, Le Plus Beau Pays du monde by Marcel Bluwal (1999), Fait d'hiver Robert Enrico (1999). For television, he wrote scenarios Thérèse Humbert, Music Hall, by Marcel Bluwal, Les Lendemains qui chantent, by Jacques Fansten et Julien l'apprenti, by Jacques Otmezguine.

He is one of the few contemporary French playwrights alive to be studied in school (including L'Atelier). Jean-Claude Grumberg received the Grand Prize of the Académie française in 1991 and SACD Prize in 1999 for lifetime achievement; the Molière's best playwright in 1991 for Zone libre and in 1999 L'Atelier.

Jean-Claude Grumberg is the father of actress Olga Grumberg.

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Known for

Acting
2009 Eden Is West Actor L'homme à la sortie du métro 59
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1997 Lucie Aubrac Actor le père de Raymond 59
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1993 The Little Apocalypse Actor Kornfeld 59
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Writing
2024 The Most Precious of Cargoes Writing Screenplay N/A
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2015 The Art Dealer Writing Screenplay 58
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2012 Capital Writing Screenplay 59
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2011 Les Livres qui tuent Writing Writer N/A
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2010 Cigarettes et bas nylons Writing Author 58
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2010 Vers toi terre promise Writing Writer N/A
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2009 Eden Is West Writing Writer 59
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2009 À droite toute Writing Writer N/A
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2006 The Colonel Writing Screenplay 59
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2005 The Ax Writing Screenplay 61
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2004 93, rue Lauriston Writing Dialogue 58
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2004 93, rue Lauriston Writing Adaptation 58
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2004 93, rue Lauriston Writing Writer 58
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2003 Un fils de notre temps Writing Writer 59
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2002 Amen. Writing Screenplay 63
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2000 Julien l'apprenti Writing Writer N/A
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2000 Rêver peut-être Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1999 The Happiest Place on Earth Writing Writer 58
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1999 Fait d'hiver Writing Writer 59
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1995 Les Milles Writing Writer 58
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1993 The Little Apocalypse Writing Screenplay 59
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1993 The Little Apocalypse Writing Dialogue 59
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1983 Thérèse Humbert Writing Writer N/A
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1982 The Workshop Writing Writer N/A
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1980 The Last Metro Writing Dialogue 65
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1976 Little Marcel Writing Writer N/A
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1971 Too Small My Friend Writing Writer 59
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Crew
2011 The Artist Crew Thanks 72
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