Bertrand Tavernier
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Bertrand Tavernier was a French director, screenwriter, producer and writer, born on April 25, 1941 in Lyon, and died on March 25, 2021 in Sainte-Maxime (Var). Son of the writer and resistance fighter from Lyon, René Tavernier, he was first an assistant director, press officer (notably for Stanley Kubrick) and critic before moving on to directing with The Watchmaker of Saint-Paul, his first critical success, which led to a long collaboration with the actor Philippe Noiret (Let the Party Begin..., The Judge and the Assassin, Coup de torchon, Life and Nothing But, The Daughter of d'Artagnan). Eclectic, he tackled several cinematographic genres, from the dramatic comedy (A Sunday in the Country, Daddy Nostalgia) to the war film (Captain Conan) through the historical film (Pass, The Princess of Montpensier) or the thriller (L.627, The Bait). Several of his films have won awards, in France and abroad (including Autour de minuit which won an Oscar and was nominated for a Golden Globe). He was president of the Lumière Institute from 1982, the year the Institute was created, until his death. He is the father of director and actor Nils Tavernier and novelist Tiffany Tavernier.
Known for
Credits
Daddy Nostalgia (1990)
as Narrator (uncredited)
Filmmakers in Action (2006)
as Self
Lumière, Le Cinéma! (2024)
as Self
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires (2016)
as Self
The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
as Self
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993)
as Self
The French Minister (2013)
as Un journaliste TV (voice)
Pictures of Europe (1990)
as Self
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
as Le narrateur
Michael Powell (2005)
Actor
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma (2010)
as Self
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018)
as Self
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)
as Young Man / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
as Un homme du pouvoir (uncredited)
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000)
as Self - Director
Seuls sont les indomptés (2003)
as Lui-même
Before Midnight (1986)
as Self (archive footage)
The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
as Self
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau (2014)
as Self
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows (2002)
as Self
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Code Name: Melville (2010)
as Self
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993)
as Self
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes (2008)
as Self
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
as Self
Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme (1984)
as Lui-même
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta (2019)
as Self
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)
as Self
Gershwin (1993)
as Self
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic (2003)
as Self
In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin (2012)
as Self
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood (2010)
as Himself
Souvenirs de Voyage (2017)
Actor
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran (2015)
as Self
In the Shadow of Hollywood (2000)
as Self
L'homme au cigare (—)
as Himself
An American Named Kazan (2019)
as Self
The Other Side of the Tracks (1997)
as Lui-même
Les Secrets de la belle endormie (2020)
as Self
My Journey Through French Cinema (2016)
as Self
The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis (2004)
Actor
The Undeclared War (1992)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu » (2011)
as Self (cinéaste)
The Lumière Brothers' First Films (1996)
as Narrator
The Cineastes' Exit (1995)
as Narrator
M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier (2016)
as Self