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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. 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.
Filmography
all 70
Movies 58
Director 18
self 13
TV Shows 12
Writer 5
Voice 2
Fernandel, Jacques Tati, Bourvil, Louis de Funès - Les Rois de la comédie (2023)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille (2017)
La Folle Heure des grandis (2002)
Le Schpountz (1999)
Vivement dimanche (1998)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Fantôme avec chauffeur (1996)
The Thirst for Gold (1993)
Vanille fraise (1989)
Nulle part ailleurs (1987)
Levy & Goliath (1987)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986)
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (1984)
Ace of Aces (1982)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
Umbrella Coup (1980)
Out of It (1978)
Et vive la liberté! (1978)
Système 2 (1975)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)
Apostrophes (1975)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
Samedi soir (1971)
The Brain (1969)
À bout portant (1968)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
The Sucker (1965)
New Reports from France (1964)
The Prize (1963)
Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
The Menace (1961)
The Itchy Palm (1960)
Come Dance with Me! (1959)
Babette Goes to War (1959)
Witness in the City (1959)
The Journey (1959)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)
Back to the Wall (1958)
Seventh Heaven (1958)
Young Girls Beware (1957)
Les Marines (1957)
House of Secrets (1956)
L'Homme au parapluie (1956)
Cinépanorama (1956)
The Best Part (1955)
Heroes and Sinners (1955)
Woman of the River (1954)
Loves of Three Queens (1954)
The Fate of Two Queens (1954)
Father Brown (1954)
They Who Dare (1954)
The Heart of the Matter (1953)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Endless Horizons (1953)
Sea Devils (1953)
Le Costaud des Batignolles (1952)
The Night Is My Kingdom (1951)
Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
Without Leaving an Address (1951)
Here Is the Beauty (1950)
Sorceror (1950)
Du Guesclin (1949)
The Secret of Mayerling (1949)
Jo la Romance (1949)
Antoine and Antoinette (1947)
Little Nothings (1942)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1919-04-29
Deathday2006-07-19 (87 years old)
Birth Place16th arrondissement of Paris, France
RelationshipsMichèle Morgan (1960-01-01 - 2006-07-19)
ChildrenDanièle Thompson
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsMax-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum, Gerard Oury, Жерар Ури
AwardsGrand Officer of the National Order of Merit, Commander of the Legion of Honour
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