Georges Lautner

About

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...

Known for

The ProfessionalMovie • 1981Le GuignoloMovie • 1980Death of a Corrupt ManMovie • 1977Cop or HoodMovie • 1979Let's Not Get AngryMovie • 1966Icy BreastsMovie • 1974Crooks in CloverMovie • 1963Happy EasterMovie • 1984The Road to SalinaMovie • 1970The Great Spy ChaseMovie • 1964There Once Was a CopMovie • 1972The Bottom LineMovie • 1976La Cage aux Folles 3Movie • 1985PashaMovie • 1968Dandelions by the RootsMovie • 1964Stranger in the HouseMovie • 1992The Black MonocleMovie • 1961Man in the TrunkMovie • 1973The Seventh JurorMovie • 1962The Debauched Life of Gerard FloqueMovie • 1987How to Keep the Red Lamp BurningMovie • 1965Some Too Quiet GentlemenMovie • 1973Is This Reasonable?Movie • 1981No Problem!Movie • 1975