Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner ( born January 24, 1926 in Nice, † November 22, 2013 in Paris) was a French film and television director, a specialist for both action-packed gangster and crime films as well as for turbulent comedies.
Life and work
Lautner visited the Paris Lycée Janson de Sailly, and studied at the University of Political Science and later Jurassic. As the son of actress Renée Saint- Cyr Lautner arrived from an early age with the film in contact. On his mother's side he took over in 1950 his first film role in the melodramatic espionage and revenge fabric messenger of the Emperor. His main job was ( until 1953 ) an assistant director in those years. After that, Lautner was responsible as a director of three short films. Since 1958, Georges Lautner directed feature-length films, especially in the 1960s and 1970s was the director of the most commercially successful filmmakers of his country.
He began his career with films with Bernard Blier as the protagonist ( Arretez les tambours, 1960; Even heroes want to die, 1960, with Juliette Mayniel, The Black Monocle, 1961, to Marie Dubois, The seventh juror, with Danièle Delorme ). In 1964, he staged radishes from below with Louis de Funès. The monocle - series with Paul Meurisse he continued with two more films. One success was the film drama The Road to Salina Mimsy Farmer and Rita Hayworth. Since the 1970s numerous comedies and thrillers, mostly with Alain Delon ( Ice cold like the silence, The case Serrano ) and Jean -Paul Belmondo ( The Greyhound, The Professional ). In the 1980s, followed his earlier works plate and verrissene by critics movies like Happy Easter ( with Belmondo ), La Cage Aux Folles III and A man who knows too much ( with Michael Brandon and Robert Mitchum ). With the eerie house on the novel by Georges Simenon Lautner Belmondo helped in 1992 to a great age role. In 2000 he directed the episode The Bistro drug scenes.
Filmography (selection)
Autobiography
On aura tout vu. Paperback, Flammarion, Paris, 2005, ISBN 2-08-068690-9.