Wissenswertes

Was an assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville.

Was at high-school with Volker Schlöndorff.

Directed one Oscar-nominated performance: Dexter Gordon in Um Mitternacht (1986). Interestingly, Gordon was professionally a musician, not an actor.

Ciinephile, he writes a DVD blog on the SACD's site (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques) . That French authors and composers' association was founded in 1777 by Beaumarchais.

Tribute in the Memory of Film section at the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium. (2001)

Tavernier began working in films as a publicist and occasional critic and journalist.

One of his favorite actors is Philippe Noiret.

He was the father of actor Nils Tavernier.

Father of Nils Tavernier and Tiffany Tavernier with Colo Tavernier.

In the early 60s worked as a press officer for the producer Georges de Beauregard.

At one time an influential film critic, notably for the left wing magazine Positif.

Educated at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris.