Georges Lautner
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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Acting (14 movies)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
The Eye of the Monocle
1962
Captain Ardant
1951
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011
Jean Gabin intime
2010
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
1954
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
2003
Lino Ventura, la part intime
2018
Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl
1956
My Other Husband
1983
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
2010
Retenez bien ma gueule !
2014
Directing (45 movies)
The Professional
1981
Scénarios sur la drogue
2000
The Seventh Juror
1962
The Great Spy Chase
1964
Crooks in Clover
1963
Le Guignolo
1980
Happy Easter
1984
Let's Not Get Angry
1966
Cop or Hood
1979
The Murdered House
1988
The Eye of the Monocle
1962
Sorrel Flower
1967
There Once Was a Cop
1972
The Bottom Line
1976
Man in the Trunk
1973
Troubleshooters
1971
Death of a Corrupt Man
1977
My Other Husband
1983
These Sorcerers Are Mad
1978
Stranger in the House
1992
Pasha
1968
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964
Women and War
1961
No Problem!
1975
The Big Grasshopper
1967
Icy Breasts
1974
Dandelions by the Roots
1964
Road to Salina
1970
La Cage aux Folles 3
1985
Is This Reasonable?
1981
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965
Galia
1966
Prêcheur en eau trouble
1992
L'homme de mes rêves
1994
Do or Die!
1960
Room Service
1992
Believed Violent
1990
L'Invité surprise
1989
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
1987
Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
1973
The Black Monocle
1961
Triplex
1991
Operation Gold Ingot
1962
La môme aux boutons
1958
The Cowboy
1985
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Do or Die! | 1960 | Screenplay |
| Do or Die! | 1960 | Producer |
| Women and War | 1961 | Screenplay |
| Operation Gold Ingot | 1962 | Writer |
| The Eye of the Monocle | 1962 | Writer |
| Dandelions by the Roots | 1964 | Writer |
| Let's Not Get Angry | 1966 | Screenplay |
| The Big Grasshopper | 1967 | Screenplay |
| Pasha | 1968 | Screenplay |
| Strogoff | 1970 | Screenplay |
| Road to Salina | 1970 | Screenplay |
| There Once Was a Cop | 1972 | Screenplay |
| Man in the Trunk | 1973 | Writer |
| Icy Breasts | 1974 | Writer |
| No Problem! | 1975 | Screenplay |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | 1977 | Screenplay |
| The Professional | 1981 | Screenplay |
| Happy Easter | 1984 | Writer |
| The Cowboy | 1985 | Writer |
| The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque | 1987 | Writer |
| The Murdered House | 1988 | Writer |
| Room Service | 1992 | Screenplay |
| Stranger in the House | 1992 | Writer |