Gérard Oury
Born
April 29, 1919
Died
July 19, 2006 (87 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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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.[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.
Known For
Les Rois de la comédie
Self (archive footage)
2023
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
2017
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
Self
2016
La Folle Heure des grandis
Self
2002
Vivement dimanche
Self · (2 episodes)
1998
Sacrée soirée
Self · (4 episodes)
1987
Nulle part ailleurs
Self · (1 episode)
1987
Matin Bonheur
Self · (1 episode)
1987
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
1986
Champs-Elysées
Self · (1 episode)
1982
Système 2
Self · (1 episode)
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · (3 episodes)
1975
Apostrophes
Self · (1 episode)
1975
Spécial cinéma
Self · (7 episodes)
1974
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · (2 episodes)
1972
Le Grand Échiquier
Self - Main Guest · (1 episode)
1972
Samedi soir
Self · (1 episode)
1971
À bout portant
Self · (1 episode)
1968
The Prize
Claude Marceau
1963
The Menace
The Doctor
1961
The Itchy Palm
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1960
The Journey
Teklel Hafouli
1959
The Four of Moana
1959
The Mirror Has Two Faces
docteur Bosc
1958
Back to the Wall
Jacques Decrey
1958
Seventh Heaven
Maurice Portal
1958
Young Girls Beware
Marcel Palmer
1957
The Marines
Récitant (voice)
1957
House of Secrets
Julius Pindar
1956
L'homme au parapluie
Grégory Black
1956
Cinépanorama
Self · (2 episodes)
1956
The Best Part
Gérard Bailly
1955
Heroes and Sinners
Villeterre
1955
Woman of the River
Enzo Cinti
1954
Loves of Three Queens
Napoleon Bonaparte (segment: Napoleon and Josephine)
1954
The Fate of Two Queens
Napoleon Bonaparte
1954
Father Brown
Inspector Dubois
1954
They Who Dare
Captain George Two
1954
The Heart of the Matter
Yusef
1953
The Sword and the Rose
Dauphin of France
1953
Endless Horizons
(voice)
1953
Sea Devils
Napoleon
1953
Le Costaud des Batignolles
Narrator (voice)
1952
The Night Is My Kingdom
Lionel Moreau
1951
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Maurice
1951
Without Leaving an Address
Un journaliste
1951
Here Is the Beauty
Bruno
1950
Sorceror
(uncredited)
1950
Du Guesclin
Le Dauphin
1949
The Secret of Mayerling
(uncredited)
1949
Jo la Romance
Roland Grenier
1949
Antoine & Antoinette
Le client galant
1947
Little Nothings
Philinte
1942