Georges Lautner

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 Lautners ventures into other genres were less successful though the thriller Le Professionnel starring JeanPaul Belmondo was a big commercial hit in France in 1981 Lautner was born in Nice France the son of actress Renée SaintCyr and a Viennese aviator and jeweler Renée SaintCyr later appeared in eleven of her Lautners films Lautner at the age of seven traveled to Paris when SaintCyr 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 Lautners only Englishlanguage 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 CCBYSA