Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Filmography
1975 Les Bijoux de Famille / USA: Family Jewels /
French Blue / Try It, You’ll Like It (also screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
LAUTNER, GEORGES (January 24, 1926, Nice,
Alpes-Maritimes, France–)
The son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr (1904–2004), he
studied law before entering fi lms as a trainee assistant
manager (1945 La Route du Bagne, Léon Mathot).
He successively was a trainee assistant director
(1949 Tous les Deux, Louis Cuny; 1950 Cartouche, Roi
de Paris, Guillaume Radot, shot in 1948), second assistant
director (1950 Le Trésor de Cantenac / Un Miracle,
Sacha Guitry; Fusillé à l’Aube / USA: Secret Document
Vienna, also actor, André Haguet; 1951 Deburau, Sacha
Guitry; Adhémar ou le Jouet de la Fatalité, Fernandel),
fi rst assistant director (1951 Capitaine Ardant, also
actor, André Zwobada; 1952 L’Amour n’est pas un
Péché, Claude Cariven; Cent Ans de Sport, documentary,
Gilbert Prouteau; 1953 Horizons sans Fin, Jean
Dréville; 1954 Le Chevalier de la Nuit / USA: Knights
of the Night, Robert Darène; Les Corsaires du Bois de
Boulogne, Norbert Carbonnaux; 1955 Les Chiffonniers
d’Emmaüs, Robert Darène; 1956 Goubbiah, mon Amour
/ Goubbiah / Fuga nel sole, also actor, Robert Darène,
France / Italy; Courte-Tête / US TV: Photo Finish, Norbert
Carbonnaux; 1957 C’est une Fille de Paname,
Henry Lepage; 1958 Le Temps des Œufs durs, Norbert
Carbonnaux; La Bigorne, Caporal de France, Robert
Darène; 1959 Letter to Loretta, TV, episode “The
Road,” Rudolph Maté, USA), technical adviser (1957
Une Nuit au Moulin-Rouge, Jean-Claude Roy), and fi -
nally director. He also supervised the shooting of OK
Patron! (Claude Vital, 1974), co-wrote the screenplay
of a TV movie (1995 Entre ces Mains-là, Arnaud Sélignac),
and appeared as himself in several documentaries
(1974 Histoire du Cinéma français par ceux qui l’ont
fait, documentary, Armand Panigel; 1990 Ne m’oubliez
pas: Hommage à Bernard Blier, documentary, Mathias
Ledoux; 1996 Bernard Blier, documentary, Dominique
Cazenave, Doug Headline; 1999 Francis Blanche, à la
Vie à l’Amour, documentary, short, Jorge Dana; 2002
Michel Audiard et le Mystère du Triangle des Bermudes,
documentary, François-Régis Jeanne, Stéphane Roux;
2003 Blier by Nice, documentary, Jean-Jacques Bernard;
La Trilogie des “Monocle,” also co-screenwriter,
David Maltese; 2004 Les Cascadeurs, documentary,
Laurent Germain-Maury; 2005 Pierre Richard, l’Art du
Déséquilibre, documentary, Jérémie Imbert, Yann Mar-
LAUTNER, GEORGES • 601
chet). In 2005, he published his autobiography (On
aura tout vu, Flammarion). The previous year, he wrote
the screenplay of a comic book (On achève bien les
Cons!, Editions Soleil).
Filmography
1953 La Gare Saint-Lazare (short)
Plus Belle que nature (short; also screenwriter,
producer)
1957 Madagascar, France australe (documentary;
short)
1958 La Môme aux Boutons
1960 Marche ou crève (also co-screenwriter; coadapter;
France / Belgium)
1961 Arrêtez les Tambours! / USA: Women and War
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, producer)
Le Monocle noir / USA: The Black Monocle (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
Perles du Golfe (short)
1962 En plein Cirage / Operazione Gold Ingot / USA:
Operation Gold Ingot (also co-screenwriter, coadapter;
France / Italy)
Le Septième Juré / USA: The Seventh Juror
L’Oeil du Monocle / UK: The Monocle / USA:
The Eye of the Monocle (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, actor)
1963 Les Tontons fl ingueurs / In famiglia si spara /
Mein Onkel, der Gangster / UK: Crooks in Clover /
USA: Monsieur Gangster (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy)
1964 Des Pissenlits par la Racine / 7-9-18 da Parigi un
cadavere per Rocky (also co-screenwriter, coadapter;
France / Italy)
Le Monocle rit jaune / L’ispettore spara a vista /
USA: The Monocle / The Monocle’s Sour Laugh
(also co-dialogist; France / Italy)
Les Barbouzes / Quattro spie sotto il letto / USA:
The Great Spy Chase (France / Italy)
1965 Les Bons Vivants / Un Grand Seigneur / Per favore
chiudete le persiane / USA: How to Keep the
Red Lamp Burning / US TV: Keep the Red Light
Burning (segment “Les Bons Vivants”; France
/ Italy)
1966 Galia (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor;
France / Italy)
Ne nous fâchons pas (also co-adapter)
1967 La Grande Sauterelle (also co-screenwriter)
Fleur d’Oseille / Femmina / Ein Mädchen wie
das Meer (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter;
France / Italy / West Germany)