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.
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.
1965: How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning, co-directed with Gilles Grangier
1971: Laisse aller... c'est une valse
1972: Il était une fois un flic
1973: Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles
1978: Ils sont fous ces sorciers
1981: Est-ce bien raisonnable ?
1983: My Other Husband (Attention! Une femme peut en cacher une autre)
1985: La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
1987: La Vie dissolue de Gérard Floque
1992: Prêcheur en eau trouble (TV)
1994: L'Homme de mes rêves (TV)
2000: Drug Scenes (segment Le bistrot)