Georges Lautner (French: [lotnɛʁ]; 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 The Professional starring Jean-Paul Belmondo was a big commercial hit in France in 1981.
Contents
Biography
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 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.
Filmography
As director
1958: La Môme aux boutons
1960: Arrêtez les tambours
1960: Marche ou crève
1961: Le Monocle noir
1962: The Seventh Juror
1962: Operation Gold Ingot
1962: L'Œil du Monocle
1963: Les Tontons flingueurs
1964: Salad by the Roots
1964: The Monocle Laughs
1964: The Great Spy Chase
1965: How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning, co-directed with Gilles Grangier
1966: Galia
1966: Let's Not Get Angry
1967: La Grande Sauterelle
1968: Fleur d'oseille
1968: Le Pacha
1970: Road to Salina
1971: Laisse aller... c'est une valse
1972: Il était une fois un flic
1973: La Valise
1973: Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles
1974: Icy Breasts
1975: Pas de problème !
As screenwriter
1960: Arrêtez les tambours
1960: Marche ou crève
1962: Operation Gold Ingot
1962: L'Œil du Monocle
1963: Les Tontons flingueurs
1964: Salad by the Roots
1964: The Monocle Laughs
1965: How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning, co-directed with Gilles Grangier
1966: Let's Not Get Angry
1967: La Grande Sauterelle
1968: Fleur d'oseille
1968: Le Pacha
1970: Strogoff, directed by Eriprando Visconti
1970: Road to Salina
1971: Laisse aller... c'est une valse
1972: Il était une fois un flic
1973: La Valise
1973: Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles
1975: Pas de problème !
1978: Ils sont fous ces sorciers
1981: The Professional
1984: Le Cowboy
1984: Happy Easter
1985: La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
As actor
The Pirates of the Bois de Boulogne (1954)