Georges Lautner
Directing
- Born
- January 24, 1926 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Died
- November 22, 2013 (age 87)
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.
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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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Known for
The Professional
October 21, 1981
Crooks in Clover
November 27, 1963
Cop or Hood
March 28, 1979
Le Guignolo
March 26, 1980
Let's Not Get Angry
April 20, 1966
The Great Spy Chase
December 10, 1964
Happy Easter
October 24, 1984
Pasha
March 14, 1968
Death of a Corrupt Man
December 7, 1977
The Seventh Juror
April 18, 1962
Icy Breasts
August 28, 1974
La Cage aux Folles 3
November 20, 1985
Behind the camera50
- 2000Scénarios sur la drogue Director
- 1994L'homme de mes rêves Director
- 1992Prêcheur en eau trouble Director
- 1992Stranger in the House Director, Writer
- 1992Room Service Director, Screenplay, Adaptation
- 1991Triplex Director
- 1990Believed Violent Director
- 1989L'Invité surprise Director
- 1988The Murdered House Director, Writer
- 1987The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque