Bertrand Tavernier

Biography

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

Spécial cinéma

L'Invité

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

Journeys Through French Cinema

Télévision (histoires secrètes)

The French Minister

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

All Movies (46)

• Lumière, Le Cinéma!2024 · as Self
• Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Les Secrets de la belle endormie2020 · as Self
• Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta2019 · as Self
• An American Named Kazan2019 · as Self
• Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure2018 · as Self
• Souvenirs de Voyage2017
• My Journey Through French Cinema2016 · as Self
• M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier2016 · as Self
• Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires2016 · as Self
• Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran2015 · as Self
• Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau2014 · as Self
• The French Minister2013 · as Un journaliste TV (voice)
• In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin2012 · as Self
• Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »2011 · as Self (cinéaste)
• Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma2010 · as Self
• RKO, A Story made in Hollywood2010 · as Himself
• Code Name: Melville2010 · as Self
• Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes2008 · as Self
• Filmmakers in Action2006 · as Self
• Michael Powell2005
• The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis2004
• Seuls sont les indomptés2003 · as Lui-même
• Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic2003 · as Self
• Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows2002 · as Self
• Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows2000 · as Self - Director
• In the Shadow of Hollywood2000 · as Self
• The Other Side of the Tracks1997 · as Lui-même
• Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz1997 · as Self
• The Lumière Brothers' First Films1996 · as Narrator
• The World of Jacques Demy1995 · as Self
• The Cineastes' Exit1995 · as Narrator
• Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II1993 · as Self
• Gershwin1993 · as Self
• The Young Girls Turn 251993 · as Self
• François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits1993 · as Self
• The Undeclared War1992 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Daddy Nostalgia1990 · as Narrator (uncredited)
• Pictures of Europe1990 · as Self
• Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie1988 · as Self
• Before Midnight1986 · as Self (archive footage)
• Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme1984 · as Lui-même
• A Sunday in the Country1984 · as Le narrateur
• Don't Touch the White Woman!1974 · as Un homme du pouvoir (uncredited)
• The Bakery Girl of Monceau1963 · as Young Man / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• L'homme au cigare— · as Himself

All TV Shows (6)

• Journeys Through French Cinema2017 · as Self
• L'Invité2002 · as Self
• Télévision (histoires secrètes)1996 · as Self (archive footage)
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Midi trente1972 · as Self