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Known For
Directing
Birthday
April 29, 1919
Died
July 19, 2006
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
- Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum
- Gerard Oury
- Жерар Ури
Gérard Oury
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. He is best known for a number of comedies he directed and co-wrote between the 1960s and 1980s, most notably The Sucker (1965), Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966), The Brain (1969), The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973), and Ace of Aces (1982). Max-Gérard Houry-Tannenbaum was the only son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist of Russian-Jewish origin, and French Jewish Marcelle Houry, a journalist and art critic. Tannenbaum was absent from the life of Oury and he was raised in an unobservant house of his mother and maternal grandmother Berthe Goldner. Oury studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française before World War II, but fled with all his family (mother, grandmother and unofficial wife, actress Jacqueline Roman) to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish persecutions by the Vichy government. When in 1942 his daughter Danièle Thompson was born, his fatherhood was concealed, to avoid her classification as a Jew. After 1945 he returned to the liberated Paris and restarted his career as an actor, performing in the theatre and in supporting roles in the cinema. Oury became a movie director in 1959 (The Itchy Palm) and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay (Le crime ne paie pas). Pairing André Bourvil and Louis de Funès as a comic duo, he burst into commercial filmmaking with 1965's The Sucker (Le corniaud). The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. The following year, Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille) was even more successful, attracting the largest audiences ever in France (17.27 million admissions). This box-office record stood for decades, only surpassed in 1997 by Titanic from James Cameron. Oury shot the 1969 comedy Le Cerveau (The Brain) in English, starring David Niven in the lead role as a criminal mastermind. With actress Jacqueline Roman, he was the father of French writer Danièle Thompson and grandfather of actor/writer Christopher Thompson. He lived together with the French actress Michèle Morgan for the second half of his life. He died aged 87 in Saint-Tropez on 20 July 2006. Source: Article "Gérard Oury" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
2023
7.0
Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
2016
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013
0.0
Self
La Folle Heure des grandis
2002
3.0
Self
Vivement dimanche
1998
5.1
Self
Sacrée Soirée
1987
5.6
Self
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
🎬
0.0
Self
Matin Bonheur
1987
5.8
Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986
Credits
Les Rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)
2023
7.5
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
2017
7.0
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
as Self (archive footage)
2016
7.0
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
as Self (archive footage)
2013
0.0
La Folle Heure des grandis
as Self
2002
0.0
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
1987
5.1
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
5.6
🎬
Matin Bonheur
as Self
1987
0.0
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
1986
5.8
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
🎬
Système 2
as Self
1975
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Apostrophes
as Self
1975
9.0
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
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Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self - Main Guest
1972
8.0
🎬
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
À bout portant
as Self
1968
8.0
The Prize
as Claude Marceau
1963
6.7
The Menace
as The Doctor
1961
5.5
The Itchy Palm
as Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1960
6.0
The Four of Moana
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1959
7.0
The Journey
as Teklel Hafouli
1959
6.2
The Mirror Has Two Faces
as docteur Bosc
1958
6.2
Back to the Wall
as Jacques Decrey
1958
6.3
Seventh Heaven
as Maurice Portal
1958
5.6
Young Girls Beware
as Marcel Palmer
1957
4.8
The Marines
as Récitant (voice)
1957
4.9
House of Secrets
as Julius Pindar
1956
5.9
L'homme au parapluie
as Grégory Black
1956
0.0
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
The Best Part
as Gérard Bailly
1955
6.8
Heroes and Sinners
as Villeterre
1955
8.3
Woman of the River
as Enzo Cinti
1954
5.5
Loves of Three Queens
as Napoleon Bonaparte (segment: Napoleon and Josephine)
1954
0.0
The Fate of Two Queens
as Napoleon Bonaparte
1954
0.0
Father Brown
as Inspector Dubois
1954
6.4
They Who Dare
as Captain George Two
1954
5.6
The Heart of the Matter
as Yusef
1953
6.6
The Sword and the Rose
as Dauphin of France
1953
6.3
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Endless Horizons
as (voice)
1953
0.0
Sea Devils
as Napoleon
1953
5.8
Le Costaud des Batignolles
as Narrator (voice)
1952
2.5
The Night Is My Kingdom
as Lionel Moreau
1951
6.2
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
as Maurice
1951
6.2
Without Leaving an Address
as Un journaliste
1951
6.1
Here Is the Beauty
as Bruno
1950
0.0
Sorceror
as (uncredited)
1950
0.0
Du Guesclin
as Le Dauphin
1949
5.1
The Secret of Mayerling
as (uncredited)
1949
7.0
Jo la Romance
as Roland Grenier
1949
0.0
Antoine & Antoinette
as Le client galant
1947
6.1
Little Nothings
as Philinte
1941
7.0