Jean-Claude Grumberg

Writer, Actor

July 26, 1939 (86 years)
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

  • Amen.
    Amen.2002
  • The Last Metro
    The Last Metro1980
  • The Ax
    The Ax2005
  • Capital
    Capital2012
  • Eden Is West
    Eden Is West2009
  • The Most Precious of Cargoes
    The Most Precious of Cargoes2024
  • The Little Apocalypse
    The Little Apocalypse1993
  • Cigarettes & Nylons
    Cigarettes & Nylons2010
  • The Colonel
    The Colonel2006
  • Les Milles
    Les Milles1995
  • 93, rue Lauriston
    93, rue Lauriston2004
  • The Art Dealer
    The Art Dealer2015
  • Little Marcel
    Little Marcel1976
  • Les années sandwiches
    Les années sandwiches1988
  • Too Small My Friend
    Too Small My Friend1970
  • The Happiest Place on Earth
    The Happiest Place on Earth1999
  • À droite toute
    À droite toute2 episodes

Filmography

2015
The Art Dealer · as Screenplay
2012
Capital · as Screenplay
2010
2009
2008
2006
The Colonel · as Screenplay
2005
The Ax · as Screenplay
2004
2002
Amen. · as Screenplay
1999
1999
1995
1976
1970

2009
Eden Is West · as L'homme À La Sortie Du Métro
2005
The Ax · as 1st Witness
1997
Lucie Aubrac · as Raymond's Father
1993
The Little Apocalypse · as Kornfeld
1988
1986
États d'âme · as Cast
1966
At the Theater Tonight · as Monsieur Lepic
1958

2018
Rembob'INA · as Self (auteur Et Dramaturge)
2008
2007
1990
Faut pas rêver · as Self
1987
1981
1976
César Awards · as Self

2024
2007
Free Land · as Play
1996
La peau du chat · as Novel "la Nuit Tous Les Chats Sont Gris"
1993
The Little Apocalypse · as Dialogue
1988
Les années sandwiches · as Dialogue
1980
The Last Metro · as Dialogue
1973
Playhouse · as Story
1953