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Gérard Oury
Directing

Gérard Oury
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1919-04-29,Paris, France
Gender
Male
Biography
Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. He is best known for a number of comedies he directed and co-wrote between the 1960s and 1980s, most notably The Sucker (1965), Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966), The Brain (1969), The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973), and Ace of Aces (1982). Max-Gérard Houry-Tannenbaum was the only son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist of Russian-Jewish origin, and French Jewish Marcelle Houry, a journalist and art critic. Tannenbaum was absent from the life of Oury and he was raised in an unobservant house of his mother and maternal grandmother Berthe Goldner. Oury studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française before World War II, but fled with all his family (mother, grandmother and unofficial wife, actress Jacqueline Roman) to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish persecutions by the Vichy government. When in 1942 his daughter Danièle Thompson was born, his fatherhood was concealed, to avoid her classification as a Jew. After 1945 he returned to the liberated Paris and 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) and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay (Le crime ne paie pas). Pairing 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. With actress Jacqueline Roman, he was the father of French writer Danièle Thompson and grandfather of actor/writer Christopher Thompson. He lived together with the French actress Michèle Morgan for the second half of his life. He died aged 87 in Saint-Tropez on 20 July 2006. Source: Article "Gérard Oury" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

6.7

The Prize
1963-12-25

Les Rois de la comédie

6.3

Les Rois de la comédie
2023-01-01

La Folle Heure des grandis

0

La Folle Heure des grandis
2002-01-01

5.389

Du Guesclin
1949-06-03

6.173

Mr. Peek-a-Boo
1951-04-06

Little Nothings

7.667

Little Nothings
1941-04-11

5.938

The Menace
1961-03-01

6.308

The Journey
1959-02-11

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

5.879

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986-05-13

Here Is the Beauty

7

Here Is the Beauty
1950-04-21

The Secret of Mayerling

7.25

The Secret of Mayerling
1949-05-07

9

Sorceror
1950-01-27

The Night Is My Kingdom

6.357

The Night Is My Kingdom
1951-08-09

The Mirror Has Two Faces

6.333

The Mirror Has Two Faces
1958-10-15

6.468

Father Brown
1954-06-08

Back to the Wall

6.5

Back to the Wall
1958-03-07

Sur la route de la grande vadrouille

7

Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
2016-11-22

House of Secrets

6.438

House of Secrets
1956-10-23

The Heart of the Matter

6.727

The Heart of the Matter
1953-11-03

Woman of the River

5.864

Woman of the River
1954-12-29

5.923

Seventh Heaven
1958-03-05

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

7

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017-09-01

5.889

The Marines
1957-01-01

7.5

The Itchy Palm
1960-02-03

The Four of Moana

7.5

The Four of Moana
1959-03-25

5.917

They Who Dare
1954-02-02

5.9

Sea Devils
1953-04-12

Without Leaving an Address

6.4

Without Leaving an Address
1951-01-17

Le Costaud des Batignolles

4

Le Costaud des Batignolles
1952-04-30

Young Girls Beware

5.333

Young Girls Beware
1957-07-04

Antoine & Antoinette

6.2

Antoine & Antoinette
1947-09-27

Loves of Three Queens

9

Loves of Three Queens
1954-12-24

7.143

The Best Part
1955-12-30

The Sword and the Rose

6.413

The Sword and the Rose
1953-07-23

Endless Horizons

9

Endless Horizons
1953-04-26

The Fate of Two Queens

8

The Fate of Two Queens
1954-12-24

Heroes and Sinners

8.143

Heroes and Sinners
1955-09-12

7

Jo la Romance
1949-03-04

L'homme au parapluie

0

L'homme au parapluie
1956-03-10

Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son

0

Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013-01-01

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

8.2

Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022-09-05

Nulle part ailleurs

6.125

Nulle part ailleurs
1987-08-31

8

À bout portant
1968-12-16

9.5

Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

6

Samedi soir
1971-01-09

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

6

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12

0

Système 2
1975-01-19

6.75

Champs-Elysées
1982-01-16

8.667

Cinépanorama
1956-02-04

8.5

Apostrophes
1975-01-10

0

Matin Bonheur
1987-04-14

Vivement dimanche

3.625

Vivement dimanche
1998-09-20

5.7

Sacrée soirée
1987-09-02