Gérard Lauzier

Gérard Lauzier (30 November 1932 – 6 December 2008) was a French comics author and movie director, best known as one of the leading authors in the more adult-oriented French comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

Biography Gérard Lauzier was born in Marseille on 30 November 1932. He studied philosophy and afterwards architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked in a press agency before travelling to Brazil, where he collaborated on the new capital Brasília.

Lauzier's 1986 play L'Amuse-gueule was adapted into the 1988 film Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator.

In later years, he became a film director, sometimes with movies based on his comics or on new stories. His most famous film is the 1991 Mon père ce héros with Gérard Depardieu, remade in English as My Father the Hero. Other titles include Le fils du Français with Josiane Balasko and Fanny Ardant, and with Christian Clavier. He also contributed dialogues to other movies, including the 1999 Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar.

He died on 6 December 2008 in Paris, aged 76.

Awards 1967: Prix Jean Bellus 1978: Angoulême International Comics Festival Award for Best French Author 1981: Adamson Award 1993: Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême