Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, producer and writer, born on April 25, 1941 in Lyon 6th, and died onMarch 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 [ 2 ] .
He is the father of director and actor Nils Tavernier and novelist Tiffany Tavernier producer.
| 2024 | Lumière, l’aventure continue as Self |
| 2020 | Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible as Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Les secrets de la belle endormie as Self |
| 2019 | Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta as Sé stesso |
| 2019 | Un Américain nommé Kazan as Self |
| 2018 | Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure as Self |
| 2017 | Souvenirs De Voyage |
| 2016 | Voyage à travers le cinéma français as Self |
| 2016 | M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier as Self |
| 2016 | Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires as Self |
| 2015 | Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran as Self |
| 2014 | Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau |
| 2013 | Quai d’Orsay as Un journaliste TV (voice) |
| 2012 | In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin as Self |
| 2011 | Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu » as Self (cinéaste) |
| 2010 | Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma as Self |
| 2010 | La RKO, une aventure hollywoodienne as Himself |
| 2010 | Sous le nom de Melville as Self |
| 2008 | Romy Schneider - Eine Frau in drei Noten as Self |
| 2006 | Cineastes en acció as Self |
| 2005 | Michael Powell |
| 2004 | L'étrange regard de Monsieur Mark |
| 2003 | Seuls sont les indomptés as Lui-même |
| 2003 | Claude Sautet ou La magie invisible as Self |
| 2002 | Jean-Pierre Melville et L’armée des ombres as Self |
| 2000 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self - Director |
| 2000 | À l'ombre d'Hollywood as Self |
| 1997 | De l'autre côté du périph as Lui-même |
| 1997 | Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz as Self |
| 1996 | The Lumière Brothers' First Films as Narrator |
| 1995 | L'Univers de Jacques Demy as Self |
| 1995 | Sortie des cineastes, 1995 as Narrator |
| 1993 | Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Self |
| 1993 | Gershwin as Self |
| 1993 | Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans as Self |
| 1993 | François Truffaut: Portraits volés as Self |
| 1992 | La Guerre sans nom as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1990 | Daddy Nostalgie as Narrator (uncredited) |
| 1990 | Pictures of Europe as Self |
| 1988 | Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie as Self |
| 1986 | Avant minuit as Self (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme as Lui-même |
| 1984 | Un dimanche à la campagne as Le narrateur |
| 1974 | Touche pas à la femme blanche as Un homme du pouvoir (uncredited) |
| 1963 | Monceau'nun Pastaneci Kızı as Young Man / Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
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