Gérard Oury
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.
The Prize
(Claude Marceau)
Les rois de la comédie
(Self (archive footage)))
La Folle Heure des grandis
(Self)
Du Guesclin
(Le Dauphin)
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
(Maurice)
Little Nothings
(Philinte)
The Menace
(The Doctor)
The Journey
(Teklel Hafouli)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
(Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà')
Here Is the Beauty
(Bruno)
The Secret of Mayerling
((uncredited))
Sorceror
((uncredited))
The Night Is My Kingdom
(Lionel Moreau)
The Mirror Has Two Faces
(docteur Bosc)
Father Brown
(Inspector Dubois)
Back to the Wall
(Jacques Decrey)
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
(Self)
House of Secrets
(Julius Pindar)
The Heart of the Matter
(Yusef)
Woman of the River
(Enzo Cinti)
Seventh Heaven
(Maurice Portal)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
(Self - Acteur, réalisateur, producteur (archive footage))
Les Marines
(Récitant (voice))
The Itchy Palm
Moana
They Who Dare
(Captain George Two)
Sea Devils
(Napoleon)
Without Leaving an Address
(Un journaliste)
Le Costaud des Batignolles
(Narrator (voice))
Young Girls Beware
(Marcel Palmer)
Antoine & Antoinette
(Le client galant)
Loves of Three Queens
(Napoleon Bonaparte (segment: Napoleon and Josephine))
The Best Part
(Gérard Bailly)
The Sword and the Rose
(Dauphin of France)
Endless Horizons
((voice))
The Fate of Two Queens
(Napoleon Bonaparte)
Heroes and Sinners
(Villeterre)
Jo la Romance
(Roland Grenier)
L'homme au parapluie
(Grégory Black)
Nulle part ailleurs
(Self)
À bout portant
(Self)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self - Main Guest)
Samedi soir
(Self)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self)
Système 2
(Self)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Cinépanorama
(Self)
Apostrophes
(Self)
Matin Bonheur
(Self)
Vivement dimanche
(Self)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
(Screenplay)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
(Director)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
(Director)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
(Screenplay)
The Sucker
(Director)
The Sucker
(Screenplay)
The Brain
(Director)
Delusions of Grandeur
(Director)
Umbrella Coup
(Director)
Le Schpountz
(Director)
Out of It
(Director)
Out of It
(Writer)
Ace of Aces
(Director)
Et vive la liberté!
(Idea)
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
(Director)
Vanille fraise
(Director)
Crime Does Not Pay
(Scenario Writer)
Crime Does Not Pay
(Director)
Ace of Aces
(Writer)
Ghost with Driver
(Director)
The Thirst for Gold
(Director)
The Brain
(Writer)
The Itchy Palm
(Screenplay)
Vanille fraise
(Writer)
Umbrella Coup
(Writer)
Come Dance with Me!
(Writer)
Levy & Goliath
(Screenplay)
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
(Writer)
The Menace
(Director)
The Thirst for Gold
(Writer)
The Mirror Has Two Faces
(Writer)
The Menace
(Screenplay)
The Mirror Has Two Faces
(Original Story)
Levy & Goliath
(Director)
The Itchy Palm
(Director)
Witness in the City
(Screenplay)
Delusions of Grandeur
(Writer)
New Reports from France
(Director)