Georges Lautner
Director
Biography
Georges Lautner (24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard.
Lautner's ventures into other genres were less successful though the thriller Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo was a big commercial hit in France in 1981.
Lautner was born in Nice, France, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr and a Viennese aviator and jeweler. Renée Saint-Cyr later appeared in eleven of her Lautner's films.
Lautner, at the age of seven, traveled to Paris when Saint-Cyr began her film career, and there he discovered cinema. Lautner eventually left school and landed jobs at French film studios.
Lautner became a film director after serving in an assistant director apprenticeship.
The 1990 thriller Presumed Dangerous and 1970s Road to Salina were Lautner's only English-language films, director Quentin Tarantino used a song from Road to Salina for Kill Bill: Volume 2.
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Filmography
My Other Husband
as Doctor (uncredited) 1983
The Eye of the Monocle
as German Officer 1962
Belmondo, itinéraire...
as Self 2011
Lino Ventura, la part intime
as Self (archive footage) 2018
L'Âge d'or de la pub
as Self (archive footage) 2023
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
as Self 2003
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
as Le radio amateur 1954
Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl
1956
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
as Self 2010
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
as Self 2005
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
as Self 2002
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
as Self (archive footage) 2011
Jean Gabin intime
as Self 2010
Captain Ardant
as A military 1951