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Gérard Oury

Born · April 29, 1919

Died · July 19, 2006 (87 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Bio

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.

Known for

The Prize

The Prize

Mr. Peek-a-Boo

Mr. Peek-a-Boo

Antoine & Antoinette

Antoine & Antoinette

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

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

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