Bertrand Tavernier
Directing • Born 1941-04-25 – Died 2021-03-25
Biography
Bertrand Tavernier was a French director, screenwriter, producer and writer, born on April 25, 1941 in Lyon, and died on March 25, 2021in 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.
Filmography
52 credits
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
Movie • 1997
Self
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Movie • 2016
Self
The Undeclared War
Movie • 1992
Self - Narrator (voice)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Code Name: Melville
Movie • 2010
Self
The World of Jacques Demy
Movie • 1995
Self
The Young Girls Turn 25
Movie • 1993
Self
Pictures of Europe
Movie • 1990
Self
Before Midnight
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis
Movie • 2004
The French Minister
Movie • 2013
Un journaliste TV (voice)
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Movie • 2008
Self
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
Movie • 2010
Self
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Movie • 1993
Self
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie • 2000
Self - Director
The Bakery Girl of Monceau
Movie • 1963
Young Man / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Daddy Nostalgia
Movie • 1990
Narrator (uncredited)
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
Movie • 2011
Self (cinéaste)
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Movie • 1988
Self
The Lumière Brothers' First Films
Movie • 1996
Narrator
The Cineastes' Exit
Movie • 1995
Narrator
Filmmakers in Action
Movie • 2006
Self
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
Movie • 2002
Self
In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin
Movie • 2012
Self
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Movie • 2018
Self
Gershwin
Movie • 1993
Self
An American Named Kazan
Movie • 2019
Self
M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier
Movie • 2016
Self
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Movie • 1993
Self
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
Movie • 2019
Self
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
Movie • 2003
Self
Les secrets de la belle endormie
Movie • 2020
Self
In the Shadow of Hollywood
Movie • 2000
Self
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Movie • 2015
Self
My Journey Through French Cinema
Movie • 2016
Self
A Sunday in the Country
Movie • 1984
Le narrateur
Michael Powell
Movie • 2005
The Other Side of the Tracks
Movie • 1997
Lui-même
Lumière! The Adventure Continues
Movie • 2024
Self
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Movie • 1974
Un homme du pouvoir (uncredited)
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
Movie • 2010
Himself
Seuls sont les indomptés
Movie • 2003
Lui-même
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
Movie • 2014
Self
Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme
Movie • 1984
Lui-même
Souvenirs De Voyage
Movie • 2017
L'homme au cigare
Movie
Himself
Journeys Through French Cinema
TV • 2017
Self
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
TV • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
L'Invité
TV • 2002
Self