Filmmaker Laurent Tirard, director of “Petit Nicolas”, died at 57

Initially a screenwriter for television and cinema, he directed his first film, “Lies and Betrayals and More If There’s Anything Goes…”, in 2004.

Director Laurent Tirard, revealed with the comedy Lies and betrayals and more if there is a connection.., died on Thursday September 5, his agent announced to AFP. “He left us this Thursday, September 5, 2024 in Paris, at the age of 57, after having led, with immense courage, a long fight against illness” he said in a statement.

Laurent Tirard, born in Roubaix (Nord), then raised in Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), was trained in cinema in the United States, at New York University. He left for Hollywood, where he was a script reader at Warner, then a journalist for Studio Magazinebefore becoming a screenwriter for television and then for cinema.

In 2004, his first film, Lies and betrayals and more if there is a connection…reunited Édouard Baer and Clovis Cornillac, who won the César for best supporting role. He would then excel in adaptations: Little Nicolas in 2009, his greatest success with more than five million admissions in France, then Little Nicolas’s Holidays in 2014 (based on the novels by Goscinny and Sempé), Asterix and Obelix: In the Service of Her Majesty in 2012, or again The Speech in 2020, taken from a novel by Fabrice Caro.

Struck by cancer in 2012, he underwent a bone marrow transplant which resulted in a graft-versus-host disease that left him “attacked the skin, lungs, liver, intestines”he confided in 2020.