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Laurent Tirard Dies: French Director Of ‘Little Nicholas’ & ‘Astérix & Obélix: God Save Britannia’ Was 57
Tirard was a well-liked figure in the French film industry who made 15 features over the course of two decades.
French screenwriter and director Laurent Tirard, whose best-known works included adaptations of René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé’s Little Nicholas and Nicolas On Holiday, has died at the age of 57 after a long illness. “He had a talent for capturing and retelling human stories with a lot of humor and sensibility,” PR agency BCG Presse wrote in a release announcing Tirard’s death on September 5 in Paris, after battling with illness. Noting how Tirard had been influenced by the work of Jacques Tati and a great admirer of Star Wars, the release recounted how the director spent time in the U.S., driven by his love of American cinema, studying filmmaking at New York University and then becoming a script reader for Warner Brothers
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