Raoul Coutard (16 September 1924 – 8 November 2016) was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his connection with the Nouvelle Vague period and particularly for his work with director Jean-Luc Godard. Coutard also shot films for New Wave director François Truffaut as well as Jacques Demy, a contemporary frequently associated with the movement. He shot over 75 films during a career that lasted nearly half a century. Coutard originally planned to study chemistry, but switched to photography because of the cost of tuition. In 1945, Coutard was sent to participate in the French Indochina War; he lived in Vietnam for the next 11 years, working as a war photographer, eventually becoming a freelancer for Paris Match and Look. In 1956, he was approached to shoot a film by Pierre Schoendoerffer, La Passe du Diable. Coutard had never used a movie camera before, and reportedly agreed to the job because of a misunderstanding (he believed he was being hired to shoot production stills of the film). Coutard's first work collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard was Godard's first feature, À bout de souffle, shot in 1959. He was reportedly "imposed" on Godard by producer Georges de Beauregard; the director had already settled on a different cinematographer. Coutard photographed nearly all of Godard's work in the Nouvelle Vague era (1959 - 1967), with the exception of Masculin, féminin; their last work during this period was Week-end (1967), which marked the end of Godard's work as a 'mainstream' filmmaker. The two did not work together again until Passion; their final collaboration was Godard's next feature, Prénom Carmen. ... Source: Article "Raoul Coutard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2025The Wild Palms — Director of Photography
• 2003The Outskirts of Alphaville
• 2001Wild Innocence — Director of Photography
• 1996The Phantom Heart — Director of Photography
• 1995Happiness Is No Joke — Director of Photography
• 1993Bethune: The Making of a Hero — Director of Photography
• 1993The Birth of Love — Director of Photography
• 1990Il gèle en enfer — Director of Photography
• 1989Thick Skinned — Director of Photography
• 1988Blanc de Chine — Director of Photography
• 1988Burning Beds — Director of Photography
• 1988Let Sleeping Cops Lie — Director of Photography
• 1986Max My Love — Director of Photography
• 1986Parachute — Director of Photography
• 1984Dangerous Moves — Director of Photography
• 1984Salt on the Skin — Director of Photography
• 1984The Bitch — Director of Photography
• 1983First Name: Carmen — Director of Photography
• 1983S.A.S. San Salvador — Director
• 1982Godard's Passion — Director of Photography
• 1980Operation Leopard — Director
• 1977Drummer-Crab — Director of Photography
• 1977Le Défilé du 14 Juillet 1977 — Director, Writer
• 1975Une nuit en Lorraine — Director
• 1974Like a Pot of Strawberries — Director of Photography
• 1973A Pain in the Ass — Director of Photography
• 1973The Hostage Gang — Director of Photography
• 1972Embassy — Director of Photography
• 1972Five Leaf Clover — Director of Photography
• 1971The Hideout
• 1971The Most Gentle Confessions — Director of Photography
• 1970La Liberté en croupe — Director of Photography
• 1970The Bamboo Incident — Angry French man (uncredited), Director, Adaptation
• 1970The Confession — Director of Photography
• 1969The Southern Star — Director of Photography
• 1969Z — English Surgeon (uncredited), Director of Photography
• 1968Rocky Road to Dublin — Director of Photography
• 1968The Bride Wore Black — Director of Photography
• 19672 or 3 Things I Know About Her — Director of Photography
• 1967Horizon — Director of Photography
• 1967La Chinoise — Self - Cinematographer (uncredited), Director of Photography
• 1967Made in U.S.A — Director of Photography
• 1967The Sailor from Gibraltar — Director of Photography
• 1967Weekend — Director of Photography
• 1966The Defector — Director of Photography
• 1965Alphaville — Director of Photography
• 1965Pierrot le Fou — Director of Photography
• 1965Scruggs — Director of Photography
• 1965The 317th Platoon — Director of Photography
• 1965The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora — Director of Photography
• 1964Band of Outsiders — Director of Photography
• 1964Le Grand Escroc — Director of Photography
• 1964Male Companion — Director of Photography
• 1964The Married Woman — Director of Photography
• 1964The Soft Skin — Director of Photography
• 1964The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers — Director of Photography
• 1963Contempt — Cameraman, Director of Photography
• 1963Le Petit Soldat — Director of Photography
• 1963Like Two Drops of Water — Director of Photography
• 1963Portuguese Vacation — Director of Photography
• 1963The Carabineers — Director of Photography
• 1962And Satan Calls the Turns — Camera Operator, Director of Photography
• 1962Antoine and Colette — Director of Photography
• 1962Jules and Jim — Director of Photography
• 1962Love at Twenty — Director of Photography
• 1962Petit Jour — Director of Photography
• 1962The Doll — Director of Photography
• 1962Vivre Sa Vie — Director of Photography
• 1961A Woman Is a Woman — Director of Photography
• 1961Chronicle of a Summer — Director of Photography
• 1961Lola — Director of Photography
• 1961Time Out for Love — Director of Photography
• 1960Breathless — Director of Photography
• 1960Shoot the Piano Player — Director of Photography
• 1960The Army Game — Director of Photography
• 1959Island Fisherman — Director of Photography
• 1959The Devil's Pass — Director of Photography
• 1958Ramuntcho — Director of Photography

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2018CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel — Self
• 2011Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory — Self
• 2008Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim » — Self (chef opérateur)
• 2007Godard, Love and Poetry — Self
• 2004The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin — Self
• 2000Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas — Self
• 1997Jean Seberg: American Actress — Self
• 1993Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède — Self
• 1992Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self