Georges Lautner

Director, Writer, Actor, Producer

January 24, 1926 — November 22, 2013 (87 years)
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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Known For

  • The Professional
    The Professional1981
  • Crooks in Clover
    Crooks in Clover1963
  • Cop or Hood
    Cop or Hood1979
  • Happy Easter
    Happy Easter1984
  • Death of a Corrupt Man
    Death of a Corrupt Man1977
  • Le Guignolo
    Le Guignolo1980
  • The Great Spy Chase
    The Great Spy Chase1964
  • Let's Not Get Angry
    Let's Not Get Angry1966
  • Icy Breasts
    Icy Breasts1974
  • Road to Salina
    Road to Salina1970
  • The Seventh Juror
    The Seventh Juror1962
  • The Bottom Line
    The Bottom Line1976
  • Dandelions by the Roots
    Dandelions by the Roots1964
  • The Murdered House
    The Murdered House1988
  • Stranger in the House
    Stranger in the House1992
  • Troubleshooters
    Troubleshooters1971
  • No Problem!
    No Problem!1975
  • The Black Monocle
    The Black Monocle1961
  • Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
    Some Too Quiet Gentlemen1973
  • How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
    How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning1965

Filmography

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