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Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021)

playwright, lyricist, film actor, film director, translator, television actor, actor, director

  • Lycée Lakanal, École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud

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Einstein, s'il vous plaît
Please Mr. Einstein
The Return of Martin Guerre
Mahabharata
La fuerza del budismo
The Power of Buddhism
La force du bouddhisme
The secret language of film
Exercice du scénario
The Mahabharata
L'Aide-Memoire
This is not the end of the book
Buñuel x Carrière
Die Kraft des Buddhismus und der Zustand der Welt
In search of the Mahabharata
Les années d'utopie
The Mahabharata
Xian jie
C'était la guerre
Dictionnaire amoureux du Mexique
Raconter une histoire
La controverse de Valladolid
Le Vin bourru
Los Fantasmas de Goya
Le Mahabharata
Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Inde
Recits mythiques
Il était une fois le dessin animé-- et le cinéma d'animation
Le cercle des menteurs
La terrasse
L'aide-mémoire
El círculo de los mentirosos
La paix des braves
Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Inde
Le Mahabharata
Le jeune prince et la vérité
Credo
Le cercle des menteurs
The conference of the birds
Le <Mahàbhàrata
Le cercle des menteurs
La Controverse de Valladolid
Buñuel x Carrière
Einstein, s'il vous plaît
Le Mahabharata
Le film qu'on ne voit pas
Congreso de Botánica en Homenaje a Francisco Loscos (1823-1886)
El segundo círculo de los mentirosos
Les mots et la chose
Humour 1900
Les petits mots inconvenants
The Secret language of film
Le circuit ordinaire
Tous en scène
La controverse de Valladolid
The conference of the birds
Les Années d'utopie
Monsieur Hulot's holiday
Dictionnaire des révélations historiques et contemporaines
Fragilité
Śefat ha-setarim shel ha-ḳolnoaʻ (Sifriyat Sifriyat ofaḳim)
L' aide-mémoire
Le Maître et Marguerite
Viva Maria
"Chinese Box" & a Film-maker's Diary
The Controversy of Valladolid
Simon le mage
Lexikon der Sonderlinge
Diccionario Del Amante De LA India
L'homme dans ses univers
Die Welt ist was sie ist
Monsieur Hulot's holiday
Jean-Claude Carrière, Umberto Eco, non sperate di liberarvi dei libri
The controversy of Valladolid
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
El Circulo de Los Mentirosos
Monsieur Hulot's holiday
Les mots et la chose
La paix des braves
Les Mots et la Chose
The Mahabharata
La Pelicula Que No Se Ve
Buñuel despierta
Credo
Mon chèque
Le pari
Goyovy přízraky
Les fantômes de Goya
Le carnaval et la politique
Le pari
Entretiens sur la multitude du monde
Le réveil de Buñuel
Nadie acabará con los libros
Utopie, quand reviendras-tu?
La Fi dels temps
Viva Maria
Milou en mai
Les mots et la chose
LA CONFERENCE DES OISEAUX
Le Mahâbhârata
Mémoire espagnole
Petite étoile (OJ.SCIENCES) (French Edition)
Les mots et la chose
La controverse de Valladolid
Ne nadeĭtesʹ izbavitʹs︠i︡a ot knig!
The diabolical Dr. Z
L'esprit libre
L'alliance
The little black book
Valmont
Anthologie de l'humour 1900
Ainshṭain, be-vaḳashah
Le retour de Martin Guerre
Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane (1918-2006)

television actor

  • Fort Hays State University

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Golden Age Marvel Comics
The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
The killing man
Kiss me, deadly
I, the Jury
My gun is quick
Black alley
The Mike Hammer collection
The Deep
The big bang
Something's Down There
The Big Kill
King of the Weeds
Kiss her goodbye
The tough guys
Vengeance Is Hers
Survival ... zero!
Vengeance is mine
Dead Street
The body lovers
The long wait
The Mike Hammer collection
The twisted thing
The last cop out
One Lonely Night
The By-Pass Control
A Century of Noir
The last cop out
The Big Showdown
Killer mine
The legend of Caleb York
Day of the guns
The big kill
The Mike Hammer Omnibus
Crimes by Moonlight
Mickey Spillane's from the Files Of Mike Hammer
Byline
Black alley
Mickey Spillane
Me, Hood!
Mike Hammer Omnibus
The Hammer strikes again
Kill me, darling
The by-pass control
The Shamus Winners
My gun is quick
Complex 90
The ship that never was
The Consummata
The snake
Day of the guns
The death dealers
The day the sea rolled back
The Goliath bone
The erection set
Masquerade for Murder
The Mike Hammer collection, volume 3
Lady, go die!
Big Kill CST
Vengeance is Mine!
The big showdown
The twisted thing
The Girl Hunters
Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek
Hot Lead, Cold Justice
Mickey Spillane
Tomorrow I Die
Mike Hammer
A long time dead
The last stand
Bloody sunrise
Manhunt, March 1953
The Bloody Spur
The Veiled Woman & Pellucidar
The Body Lovers
Hot Lead, Cold Justice
The Will to Kill
Day of the Guns
The Girl Hunters
Shrinking Island
The Killing Man
It's in the Book
Survival Zero
One lonely night
My Gun Is Quick
Complex 90
The delta factor
The Snake
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
The big bang
Murder Is My Business
My gun is quick
The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 2
The Big Kill
Dead Street
The will to kill
It's in the Book
Killer mine
Long Wait
Black alley
The Goliath bone
Murder never knocks
Murder, My Love
The Long Wait
The Twisted Thing
Manhunt, April 1953
Delta Factor
The Girl Hunters and Survival
Goliath Bone
Verkorkst
Kanun Benim
Le journal du prince
My gun is quick
The Day The Sea Rolled Back
Day of the Guns and Death Dealers
L'uomo che uccide
Mystery Fancier November-December 1983
Kiss Me Deadly CST
The BIG KILL CASSETTE
Something's down there
L'Homme Qui Tue
Last Stage to Hell Junction
My Gun is Quick
Mystery Fancier July-August 1986
Avontuur op de bodem van de zee
Karanlik Yol
The Delta Factor
Dead Street (Hard Case Crime)
Mike Hammer the Comic Strip
Everybody's Watching Me
Hardboiled
Mike Hammer
Surprise sanglante
Kiss her goodbye
The day the sea rolled back
La vendetta è mia
O assassino implacavel
Mike Hammer
Vengeance Is Mine CST
Kiss Her Goodbye
Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek
Everybody's Watching Me and a Bullet for Cinderella
Big Bang
Öp Beni Öldüresiye
One Lonely Night
The Legend of Caleb York
The Big Kill
Return of the hood
Murder is my business
Last Stand
Last Stage to Hell Junction
Stand up and Die!
The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer
Encore for Murder
The bloody spur
Mike Hammer - the Big Bang
The Killing Man
The Killing Man
Kiss Me, Deadly
Primal Spillane
Tod mit Zinsen
Golden Age Of Marvel Volume 2 TPB
Paperback Quarterly Fall 1979
The Mickey Spillane omnibus
The big kill
Legend of Caleb York
The Legend of Caleb York
Something's down There
Mike Hammer
Legend of Caleb York, The
Küß mich, Tod
Surprise sanglante
Vengeance Is Mine
The flier
Mike Hammer : the Goliath Bone
Primal Spillane
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
The Big Bang
Mike Hammer - Kiss Her Goodbye
Killing town
Il club del vizio
Complex 90
The Death Dealers (The Tiger Mann Series)
Menace
Together we kill
Murder, My Love Lib/E
The Legend of Caleb York
Killing Man
Kiss Her Goodbye
So Long, Chief
Killing Man (8)
Rhapsodie in Blei
By-Pass Control (The Tiger Mann Series)
My Gun Is Quick
Kiss Me Deadly (Mike Hammer Series)
Soḥare ha-maṿet
Talents gia fono
Il bottone della morte
Dans les profondeurs
Tot in New York
Vintage Spillane
L'homme qui tue
Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger Collection
Kiss Her Goodbye
ha-Maṿet hu yaroḳ
El Buque Que Nunca Existio
Nettoyage par le vide
Black Alley
Een navel met een starre blik
Lady, go die!
Tote kennen keine Gnade
I Jury
Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley (1940-2006)

journalist, actor

  • Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy

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White Shark
Shark Life
Jaws
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 1992
Rummies
Beast
Shark Trouble
Three Complete Novels (Beast / Girl of the Sea of Cortez / Jaws)
The Island
Best Sellers
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 2 - 1974
Selected from Jaws
Ocean planet
The Deep
Time and a ticket
Shark!
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez
Jaws [Screenplay]
Q Clearance
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Lush
McDougal Littell Literature
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume M-1983
Interactive reader grade 7
Jonathan visits the White House
Shark
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" [story in] If - March 1967
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
L'ile sanglante 022796
ha-Naʻarah mi-Yim Ḳorṭez
ha-Karish
ha-I ha-neʻelam
Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson (born 1958)

actor, comedian, singer, television actor

  • University of East Anglia, Sevenoaks School

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Doctor Who
Doctor Who
SilverFin (Young Bond #1)
Hurricane gold (Young Bond #4)
Blood Fever (Young Bond #2)
The Enemy (The Enemy #1)
Double Or Die (Young Bond #3)
King of the Ants
The Sacrifice
The Fear (The Enemy #3)
Happy now
Getting rid of Mister Kitchen
The fallen
The end
The Young Bond Dossier Danger Society
The dead
The Fast Show book
The Hunted
Monstroso
The Fear Charlie Higson
Full whack
Danger Society The Young Bond Dossier
By Royal Command (Young James Bond #5)
The hunted
"Fast Show"
A Morte é Contagiosa
Penguin Readers Level 1
Silverfin
Complete Short Stories, 1944 -1953
The Fear
Hunted
Fighting Fantasy
Monstroso
Fear
Fear, The: The Enemy, Book 3
Fear (the Enemy Book 3)
Worst. Holiday. Ever
Olum
It Gets Worse
Poker fatal
DOUBLE OR DIE
Fear
Worst. Holiday. Ever
Hunted (the Enemy Book 6)
Dusman
Kanli Humma - Genc Bond 2. Kitap
Enemy Series, Books 1-3
Enemy - 3-Book Paperback Boxed Set
Fear
James Bond - GoldenBoy (German Edition)
Enemy Dumpbin
Doctor Who : the Beast of Babylon
Korku
On His Majestys Secret Service
The Hunted
Enemy Book Series Charlie Higson Collection 7 Books Set
Young Bond Silver Fin A2 Poster
Ennemis
Gumusyuzgec - Genc Bond 1. Kitap
Enemy Series, Books 4-6
Fighting Fantasy
Penguin Readers Level 1
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Freddy and the Pig
James Bond
Oyna Ya Da Ol - Genc Bond 3. Kitap -
James Bond
Freddy and the pig
Timothy Findley
Timothy Findley (1930-2002)

playwright, actor

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Headhunter
The wars
Famous last words
Spadework
The telling of lies
Not wanted on the voyage
Dinner along the Amazon
The trials of Ezra Pound
You Went Away
Can you see me yet?
Pilgrim
The butterfly plague
Stones
The stillborn lover
Inside memory
Elizabeth Rex
The Piano Man's Daughter
Dust to dust
Introducing Timothy Findley's The wars
The Newcomers
The Last of the Crazy People
From Stone Orchard
Bons baisers du pays des hypocrites
Journeyman
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

actor, essayist

  • Hamilton College

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The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote
Mark Twain's Library of Humor
Great Cat Tales
The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told
In the wilderness
Being a boy
Lords of the Housetops
Baddeck, and that sort of thing
The Gilded Age in two volumes. 1/2
A little journey in the world
The Gilded Age
Backlog studies
My summer in a garden
In the Levant
Washington Irving
Our Italy
Saunterings
The Oxford Book of American Essays
In the Levant
On Horseback
My winter on the Nile
As We Were Saying
A-hunting of the Deer and Other Essays
My Summer in a Garden
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
Library of the World's Best Literature
Libraries, Librarians, and Other Book Lovers
Studies in the South and West
That Fortune: A Novel
Gilded Age. 1/3
Backlog Studies
A- hunting of the deer
My Summer in a Garden
My Summer in a Garden
People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote, The
My Winter on the Nile
Being a Boy
Backlog Studies
The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the Most Famous Orators ..
The relation of literature to life
Mummies and moslems
Captain John Smith
On Horseback
Baddeck and That Sort of Thing
As We Go
A roundabout journey
That fortune
As We Go
Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
The Gilded Age, 3 Vols
On Horseback
In the Levant, Travels in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria
The work of Washington Irving
The Gilded Age, 3 Vols
The Golden House
That Fortune
Dr. Charles Dudley Warner on Southern literature and the race problem
The South revisited
Washington Irving
Relation of Literature to Life
The American Italy (Our Italy)
Fashions In Literature
My Summer in a Garden
Captain John Smith (1579-1631)
Mein Sommer in einem Garten
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 9
The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner
The Gilded Age, a Tale of To-Day, Volume 2/2
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Gilded Age
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 13
Being a Boy
That Fortune
The Warner classics
The Gilded Age
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 2
Library of the World&apos;s Best Literature Ancient and Modern Volume 4
Fashions In Literature, And Other Literary And Social Essays & Addresses
As We Were Saying
For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
The Gilded Age, by S.L. Clemens and C.D. Warner. by Mark Twain and C.D. Warner.3 Vols
A Roundabout Journey
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 8
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 3
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 6
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner-Saunterings - Volume 2
Their Pilgrimage
The Gilded Age, 3 Vols
Mummies and Moslems
Equality
The Story of Pocahontas
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 11
Studies of Irving
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 15
Backlog Studies
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 7
Fashions in literature, and other literary and social essays & addresses
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 12
The book of eloquence
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner V15
As We Go
Captain John Smith (1579-1631) sometime governor of Virginia, and admiral of New England
My summer in a garden
On Horseback in Virginia (Equestrian Travel Classics)
Their Pilgrimage
The relation of literature to life
Library of the World's Best Literature
Nine Short Essays
In the Levent
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 5
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 14
My Summer In A Garden
Baddeck, and that sort of thing
Studies in the south and west
Library of the World's Best Literature -- Volume XII 12 / GRE to HEN
My Summer in a Garden
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 1
The Gilded Age
In the Levant
Essays-The Book of Eloquence
Our Italy
The Story Of Pocahantas
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: Volume 4
A Little Journey in the World: A Novel
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
My Winter on the Nile, among the Mummies and Moslems
The Warner library
The Gilded Age, A Tale of To-Day Volumes I and II
Backlog studies
The Gilded Age
The complete writings of Charles Dudley Warner
My Summer In A Garden
Baddeck, and that sort of thing
Charles Dickens; an appreciation
LIBRARY OF WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE Ancient and Modern Volume XXVII Wat-Zor
Library of the world's best literature
Biographical dictionary and synopsis of books, ancient and modern
The Gilded Age, a Tale of To-day, Vol. 1/2
Studies of Irving
The Gilded Age in three volumes 2/3
The Warner library
A Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Gilded Age
What shall be done with the criminal class?
My Summer in a Garden
Backlog studies
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Library of the world's best literature
The Gilded Age
THE GILDED AGE
Studies in the South and West with comments on Canada
A Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today
Comments on Canada
Library of the world's best literature
My summer in a garden
Washington Irving
The Gilded Age in three volumes 3/3
Library of the world's best literature
Novels-The Gilded Age (with Mark Twain)
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
The Gilded Age
In the Levant
My summer in a garden
Library of the world's best literature
The American newspaper
Hints for Home Reading: A Series of Chapters on Books and Their Use
The Gilded Age
Captain John Smith
The Gilded Age
Washington Irving
The Elmira system
Captain John Smith (1579-1631) sometime governor of Virginia, and admiral of New England
My winter on the Nile
Washington Irving
As we were saying .
In the Levant
Being a boy
Coronado Beach, San Diego County, California
Saunterings
Their pilgrimage
In the Levant
That fortune
Charles Dudley Warner papers
Fashions in literature and other literary and social essays & addresses
Mein Sommer in einem Garten
Biographical dictionary and synopsis of books, ancient and modern
A little journey in the world
A little journey in the world
Studies of Irving
Being a boy
A roundabout journey
Studies of Irving
Washington Irving
My winter on the Nile
My summer in a garden
Backlog studies
A roundabout journey
Their pilgrimage
The Warner library
On horseback
Studies of Irving
In the Levant
Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern.
The Complete writings of Charles Dudley Warner ; edited by Thomas R. Lounsbury
A little journey in the world
The education of the Negro
In the wilderness
A little journey in the world
Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern.
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Warner library
David Hare
David Hare (born 1947)

playwright, film director, theatrical director, actor, television director, film producer

  • University of Cambridge, Lancing College

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Asking around
Amy's view
The blue room
Skylight
Plenty
The secret rapture
Stuff Happens
Heading home ; Wetherby ; and, Dreams of leaving
The Vertical Hour
The Asian plays
Via Dolorosa
The secret rapture and other plays
Fanshen
The Judas kiss
Pravda
Via Dolorosa and When Shall We Live
The absence of war
Collected screenplays
Platonov [adaptation]
Murmuring judges
Racing demon
The power of yes
The Early Plays
Saigon
Plays two
The verticle hour
Wetherby
Knuckle
Obedience, Struggle and Revolt
The Judas kiss
My Zinc Bed
The history plays
Plays, one
The Breath of Life
The blue touch paper
Teeth 'n' smiles
South Downs
A map of the world
Slag
The bay at Nice ; Wrecked eggs
David Hare: Plays 1
David Hare: Plays 2
Gethsemane
Acting up
Strapless
The permanent way, or, la voie anglaise
Writing left-handed
The hours
The Permanent Way
Fanshen
Maxim Gorky's Enemies
Le Malin Plaisir
The House of Bernarda Alba
L'Absence de guerre
Paris by Night
Damage
Licking Hitler
Dreams of Leaving
Plenty (Faber Library)
Plays three
My zinc bed
Teeth 'n' smiles
Shefaʻ
Fanshen
David Hare : plays
The great exhibition
Shaman's Fire
Gethsemane
Ivanov
Knuckle
The verticle hour
The vertical hour
The house of Bernarda Alba
Skylight
the blue room
Slag
Amy's view
The absence of war
Obedience, struggle & revolt
Stuff happens
Orson Welles
Orson Welles (1915-1985)

film director, actor, film producer, magician, character actor, playwright, radio personality, stage actor, theatrical producer, television actor, voice actor, film actor, director, producer

  • Todd Seminary for Boys, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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Invasion from Mars, interplanetary stories
Mr. Arkadin
Orson Welles on Shakespeare
Orson Welles
This is Orson Welles
Procès
Orson Welles Library
Les Bravades
Chimes at midnight
The Orson Welles Library
Mr. Arkadin
Masterpieces of Modern Short Fiction
The big brass ring
Mr. Arkadin
"The stranger" =
Moby Dick--rehearsed
Almanac - Dramatic Readings
Radio's Greatest Detectives
The Shadow Knight Of Darkness
The Cradle Will Rock
Citizen Kane (Methuen Film)
Les Miserables
The Life of Jesus
Monsieur Arkadin
The Free company presents ..
The Masterworks of Orson Welles
The cradle will rock
Moi, Orson Welles
Badge of evil
The Citizen Kane book
Falstaff (Chimes at midnight)
The stranger
La Guerre des mondes
Jesus of Nazareth
Le procès
The Citizen Kane Book
The Mercury Shakespeare: Macbeth
The Citizen Kane book
War of the Worlds (Dd-3667)
Hollywood Stars
This is Orson Welles
Invasion from Mars
Citizen Kane(Motion Picture)
Moi, Orson Welles
No man is an island
Ciudadano Welles
Golden Age of Radio
Around the world with Orson Welles
The stranger
Tut, the boy king
Citizen Cane
The tragedy of Julius Caesar
Il Cinema secondo Orson Welles
Une grosse lʹegume
Mercury Theatre of the Air
The magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Citizen Kane
Tragical history of Doctor Faustus
The lady from Shanghai (1947)
Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen
Macbeth [videorecording]