
Gérard Oury
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gérard Oury (29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum. The son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist, and Marcelle Houry, a journalist, Oury studied at Lycée Janson de Sailly and at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française just one year before World War II, but fled to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish persecutions by the Vichy government. After 1945 he 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 (fr)) and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay (Le crime ne paie pas). Joining 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.[1] 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. Living together with the French actress Michèle Morgan, he was the father of French writer Danièle Thompson and grandfather of actor/writer Christopher Thompson. He died aged 87 in Saint-Tropez on 20 July 2006.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-04-29
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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Cast
The Prize
19636.8 / 10
Les Rois de la comédie
20237.5 / 10
La Folle Heure des grandis
20020.0 / 10
Du Guesclin
19495.1 / 10
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
19516.2 / 10
Little Nothings
19427.0 / 10
The Menace
19615.5 / 10
The Journey
19596.4 / 10
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
19865.8 / 10
Here Is the Beauty
19500.0 / 10
The Secret of Mayerling
19497.0 / 10
Sorceror
19500.0 / 10
The Night Is My Kingdom
19516.2 / 10
The Mirror Has Two Faces
19586.4 / 10
Father Brown
19546.4 / 10
Back to the Wall
19586.5 / 10
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
20167.0 / 10
House of Secrets
19565.9 / 10
The Heart of the Matter
19536.6 / 10
Woman of the River
19545.8 / 10
Seventh Heaven
19585.5 / 10
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
20177.0 / 10
The Marines
19574.9 / 10
The Itchy Palm
19606.0 / 10
The Four of Moana
19597.0 / 10
They Who Dare
19545.6 / 10
Sea Devils
19535.7 / 10
Without Leaving an Address
19516.1 / 10
Le Costaud des Batignolles
19522.5 / 10
Young Girls Beware
19575.3 / 10
Antoine & Antoinette
19476.3 / 10
Loves of Three Queens
19540.0 / 10
The Best Part
19556.8 / 10
The Sword and the Rose
19536.3 / 10
Endless Horizons
19530.0 / 10
The Fate of Two Queens
19540.0 / 10
Heroes and Sinners
19558.3 / 10
Jo la Romance
19490.0 / 10
L'homme au parapluie
19560.0 / 10
Crew
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
19737.4 / 10
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
19667.9 / 10
The Sucker
19657.4 / 10
The Brain
19697.3 / 10
Delusions of Grandeur
19717.4 / 10
Umbrella Coup
19806.9 / 10
Le Schpountz
19993.4 / 10
Out of It
19786.5 / 10
Ace of Aces
19827.1 / 10
Et vive la liberté!
19784.5 / 10
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
19844.7 / 10
Vanille fraise
19895.2 / 10
Crime Does Not Pay
19625.1 / 10
Ghost with Driver
19965.0 / 10
The Thirst for Gold
19935.4 / 10
The Itchy Palm
19606.0 / 10
Come Dance with Me!
19595.9 / 10
Levy & Goliath
19875.1 / 10
The Menace
19615.5 / 10
The Mirror Has Two Faces
19586.4 / 10
The Mirror Has Two Faces
19966.7 / 10
Witness in the City
19596.3 / 10