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