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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.
Gérard Oury Biography / Wiki
| Name | Gérard Oury |
| Also Know | Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum, Gerard Oury |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Date of Birth | 1919-04-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 87 |
| Deathday | 2006-07-19 |
Gérard Oury Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Back to the Wall | Jacques Decrey | 1958-03-07 | Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For revenge, he bombards her with anonymous letters, … |
| Les Marines | Récitant (voice) | 1957-01-01 | Reichenbach follows the first months training of US Army marines…. |
| La Folle heure des grandis | Self | 2002-01-01 | … |
| Woman of the River | Enzo Cinti | 1954-12-29 | When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to th… |
| The Fate of Two Queens | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1954-01-01 | Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret wa… |
| L’homme au parapluie | Grégory Black | 1956-03-10 | A heart stops beating and two others no longer dare to face each other. While an old lady is found poisoned, the two main suspects in the investigatio… |
| Sur la route de la grande vadrouille | Self | 2017-04-16 | … |
| Mr. Peek-a-Boo | Maurice | 1951-04-06 | A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses… |
| House of Secrets | Julius Pindar | 1956-10-23 | Police in Paris recruit an English ship’s officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them…. |
| The Mirror Has Two Faces | docteur Bosc | 1958-10-15 | A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who o… |
| Du Guesclin | Le Dauphin | 1949-06-03 | A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century…. |
| The Night Is My Kingdom | Lionel Moreau | 1951-08-09 | After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where … |
| Seventh Heaven | Maurice Portal | 1958-03-05 | “Le septième ciel” became Raymond Bernard’s last film; a black comedy about a female brewery owner who donates vast amounts of money to charitable ca… |
| The Prize | Claude Marceau | 1963-12-25 | A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now … |
| The Heart of the Matter | Yusef | 1953-11-03 | Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman…. |
| Le costaud des Batignolles | Narrator (voice) | 1952-04-30 | Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting t… |
| Father Brown | Inspector Dubois | 1954-06-08 | Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul…. |
| Méfiez-vous fillettes | Marcel Palmer | 1957-07-04 | … |
| Jo la Romance | Roland Grenier | 1949-03-04 | For love, the singer Georges Hyverlin gives up his profession to work with his father-in-law in his car factory. When the passion for song takes him b… |
| They Who Dare | Captain George Two | 1954-02-02 | In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaf… |
| The Journey | Teklel Hafouli | 1959-02-11 | A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary…. |
| Sea Devils | Napoleon | 1953-05-23 | Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells h… |
| Without Leaving an Address | Un journaliste | 1951-01-17 | A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address…. |
| Antoine and Antoinette | Le Client Galant | 1947-09-27 | She’s working in a big store, he’s a typographer and they lost their winning lottery ticket…. |
| Here Is the Beauty | Bruno | 1950-04-21 | Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of… |
| Les héros sont fatigués | Villeterre | 1955-09-12 | A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a s… |
| The Sword and the Rose | Dauphin of France | 1953-07-23 | Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She … |
| Loves of Three Queens | Napoleon Bonaparte (segment: Napoleon and Josephine) | 1954-01-01 | At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, re… |
| A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later | Un spectateur de ’40 ans déjà ‘ | 1986-05-13 | Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director who… |
| Endless Horizons | (voice) | 1953-04-26 | The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Horizons). Giselle Pascal stars as Boucher, who is fi… |
| Sorceror | (uncredited) | 1950-01-27 | A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is o… |
| Little Nothings | Philinte | 1942-12-16 | Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these “little nothings” (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have … |
| The Best Part | Gérard Bailly | 1955-12-30 | Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the b… |
| The Secret of Mayerling | (uncredited) | 1949-05-07 | On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are dis… |
Gérard Oury Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | Director | 1973-10-17 | In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by S… |
| Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At! | Director | 1966-12-08 | During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Nort… |
| The Sucker | Director | 1965-03-24 | In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only comp… |
| The Brain | Director | 1969-03-07 | Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don’t know … |
| Delusions of Grandeur | Director | 1971-12-08 | Don Sallust is minister of the King of Spain. It is a being disingenuous, hypocritical and greedy that collects the taxes himself, he turns in part to… |
| Umbrella Coup | Director | 1980-10-08 | Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a “real job”, goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. … |
| Out of It | Director | 1978-10-10 | The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot wh… |
| Le Schpountz | Director | 1999-08-25 | Irénée has no desire to work in his uncle’s grocery shop and dreams of becoming an actor. His opportunity comes when a crew of movie makers came to … |
| Ace of Aces | Director | 1982-10-27 | In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler’s Germany by the little boy Simon Rose… |
| The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent | Director | 1984-11-28 | An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries…. |
| Vanille fraise | Director | 1989-11-29 | Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner…. |
| Crime Does Not Pay | Director | 1962-07-06 | Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film…. |
| Fantôme avec chauffeur | Director | 1996-03-20 | A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist’s associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth,… |
| The Thirst for Gold | Director | 1993-08-31 | Urbain and his grandmother are stingy. They buy gold with all their money, and hide it inside the bricks of a wall at their country house. Jackes, his… |
| The Menace | Director | 1961-03-01 | Josepha is only eighteen and longs for the companionship of a group of her peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. … |
| Levy & Goliath | Director | 1987-01-27 | A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family’s workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same tr… |
| The Itchy Palm | Director | 1960-02-03 | A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a cattery.The man borrows a hefty sum from her ,to send hi… |
| Louis de Funès – Das grosse Schlitzohr | Action Director | 1965-03-22 | … |
| Director | … | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | Screenplay | 1973-10-17 | In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by S… |
| Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At! | Screenplay | 1966-12-08 | During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Nort… |
| The Sucker | Screenplay | 1965-03-24 | In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only comp… |
| Out of It | Writer | 1978-10-10 | The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot wh… |
| Ace of Aces | Writer | 1982-10-27 | In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler’s Germany by the little boy Simon Rose… |
| Crime Does Not Pay | Scenario Writer | 1962-07-06 | Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film…. |
| The Brain | Writer | 1969-03-07 | Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don’t know … |
| Umbrella Coup | Writer | 1980-10-08 | Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a “real job”, goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. … |
| Come Dance with Me! | Writer | 1959-12-28 | Herve argues with his wife, after which he meets an appealing woman at a nightclub. A subsequent one-night stand with her turns into a tragedy when th… |
| The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent | Writer | 1984-11-28 | An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries…. |
| The Thirst for Gold | Writer | 1993-08-31 | Urbain and his grandmother are stingy. They buy gold with all their money, and hide it inside the bricks of a wall at their country house. Jackes, his… |
| The Mirror Has Two Faces | Writer | 1958-10-15 | A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who o… |
| The Mirror Has Two Faces | Original Story | 1996-11-15 | Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a m… |
| Witness in the City | Screenplay | 1959-05-06 | Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife’… |
| Delusions of Grandeur | Writer | 1971-12-08 | Don Sallust is minister of the King of Spain. It is a being disingenuous, hypocritical and greedy that collects the taxes himself, he turns in part to… |
| Et vive la liberté! | Idea | 1978-02-01 | Their feats of arms in Africa are worth to Phil, Jeannot and Gerard to be sent on a special mission in Algeria. Held captive by the Fellaghas, they ma… |
| The Itchy Palm | Screenplay | 1960-02-03 | A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a cattery.The man borrows a hefty sum from her ,to send hi… |
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