Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Clément Harari appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Clément. Charade is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, drama, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Radu Mihăileanu, Stanley Donen, Andrew Marton and others, Clément Harari helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Charade (1963) as German Tourist (uncredited) · The Longest Day (1962) as Minor Role (uncredited) · Train of Life (1998) as Rabbi
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Clément Harari.
Films in Nutevio
4
1956–1998
Career length
42 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Charade
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Charade
Most frequent director
Radu Mihăileanu
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Radu Mihăileanu
Most common genre
Comedy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 59m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.0
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1960s
7.3 average MV
The 1960s are where the work and the material meet. Charade, The Longest Day — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1960s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1960s
7.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1950s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. La Traversée de Paris.
Most productive era
1960s
2 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1950s | 1960s | 1990s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 7.31 film | 6.91 film |
| Action | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | 7.41 film | 6.91 film |
| Romance | — | 7.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hostage with glasses (uncredited).
Highest rated performance
1963Charade
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
1998Train of Life
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Rabbi.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
4 of 4 films
as Rabbi
Directed by Radu Mihăileanu
as German Tourist (uncredited)
Directed by Stanley Donen
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Directed by Andrew Marton
as Hostage with glasses (uncredited)
Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Rabbi
Train of Life (1998)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rabbi gives Clément Harari a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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German Tourist (uncredited)
Charade (1963)
Performance score7.2
Charade asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. German Tourist (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Minor Role (uncredited)
The Longest Day (1962)
Performance score7.2
The Longest Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Minor Role (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hostage with glasses (uncredited)
La Traversée de Paris (1956)
Performance score6.8
La Traversée de Paris asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hostage with glasses (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Rabbi
Start here. Train of Life is the clearest statement of what Clément Harari does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Clément at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
La Traversée de Paris (1956)
Keeps the comedy register of Train of Life but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Longest Day (1962)
Keeps the drama register of La Traversée de Paris but asks for a colder reading of it.
Charade (1963)
A deliberate change of key after The Longest Day — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Claude Autant-Lara
Director
1 film together
Notably La Traversée de Paris
Andrew Marton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Longest Day
Stanley Donen
Director
1 film together
Notably Charade
Radu Mihăileanu
Director
1 film together
Notably Train of Life
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Stanley Donen
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CharadeAndrew Marton
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Longest DayRadu Mihăileanu
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Train of LifeClaude Autant-Lara
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
La Traversée de ParisSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Charade
as German Tourist (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Charade
as German Tourist (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Charade
as German Tourist (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Longest Day
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Train of Life
as Rabbi
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Clément Harari has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
42 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Charade
as German Tourist (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Charade
as German Tourist (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Charade
as German Tourist (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Charade
as German Tourist (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Longest Day
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Longest Day
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Train of Life
as Rabbi
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Charade
as German Tourist (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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