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. Source: Article "Georges Lautner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Directed

1. The Professional (1981) — Director
2. Crooks in Clover (1963) — Director
3. Cop or Hood (1979) — Director
4. Le Guignolo (1980) — Director
5. Let's Not Get Angry (1966) — Director
6. The Great Spy Chase (1964) — Director
7. Happy Easter (1984) — Director
8. Pasha (1968) — Director
9. Death of a Corrupt Man (1977) — Director
10. The Seventh Juror (1962) — Director
11. Icy Breasts (1974) — Director
12. La Cage aux Folles 3 (1985) — Director
13. The Murdered House (1988) — Director
14. Man in the Trunk (1973) — Director
15. The Bottom Line (1976) — Director
16. Some Too Quiet Gentlemen (1973) — Director
17. Dandelions by the Roots (1964) — Director
18. There Once Was a Cop (1972) — Director
19. How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965) — Director
20. Troubleshooters (1971) — Director
21. Road to Salina (1970) — Director
22. Stranger in the House (1992) — Director
23. The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque (1987) — Director
24. No Problem! (1975) — Director
25. The Black Monocle (1961) — Director
26. These Sorcerers Are Mad (1978) — Director
27. Is This Reasonable? (1981) — Director
28. My Other Husband (1983) — Director
29. The Monocle's Sour Laugh (1964) — Director
30. The Big Grasshopper (1967) — Director
31. The Eye of the Monocle (1962) — Director
32. Sorrel Flower (1967) — Director
33. Galia (1966) — Director
34. Believed Violent (1990) — Director
35. L'Invité surprise (1989) — Director
36. Women and War (1961) — Director
37. The Cowboy (1985) — Director
38. Triplex (1991) — Director
39. Scénarios sur la drogue (2000) — Director
40. Do or Die! (1960) — Director

Also appeared in

1. My Other Husband (1983) — Doctor (uncredited)
2. The Eye of the Monocle (1962) — German Officer
3. Belmondo, itinéraire... (2011) — Self
4. Vivement dimanche (1998) — Self
5. Lino Ventura, la part intime (2018) — Self (archive footage)
6. L'Âge d'or de la pub (2023) — Self (archive footage)
7. Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire (2003) — Self
8. Sacrée soirée (1987) — Self
9. The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne (1954) — Le radio amateur
10. Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl (1956)
11. Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre (2005) — Self
12. Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs (2010) — Self
13. Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes (2002) — Self
14. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self
15. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
16. Midi Première (1975) — Self
17. Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde (2011) — Self (archive footage)
18. Captain Ardant (1951) — A military
19. Jean Gabin intime (2010) — Self
20. Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) — Self
21. Midi trente (1972) — Self
22. Retenez bien ma gueule ! (2014) — Self
23. Ciné regards (1978) — Self