1919-04-29 Paris, France
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.
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Les Rois de la comédie | Self (archive footage) | 2023-01-01 |
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard | Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage) | 2017-09-01 |
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Sur la route de la grande vadrouille | Self | 2016-11-22 |
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La Folle Heure des grandis | Self | 2002-01-01 |
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Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà | Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà' | 1986-05-13 |
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The Prize | Claude Marceau | 1963-12-25 |
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La Menace | The Doctor | 1961-03-01 |
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La main chaude | Cameo Appearance (uncredited) | 1960-02-03 |
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The Journey | Teklel Hafouli | 1959-02-11 |
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Moana | 1959-01-01 | |
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Le septième ciel | Maurice Portal | 1958-03-05 |
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Le Dos au mur | Jacques Decrey | 1958-03-07 |
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Le miroir à deux faces | docteur Bosc | 1958-10-15 |
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Les Marines | Récitant (voice) | 1957-01-01 |
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Méfiez-vous fillettes | Marcel Palmer | 1957-07-04 |
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L'homme au parapluie | Grégory Black | 1956-03-10 |
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House of Secrets | Julius Pindar | 1956-10-23 |
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La Meilleure Part | Gérard Bailly | 1955-12-30 |
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Les héros sont fatigués | Villeterre | 1955-09-12 |
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L'amante di Paride | Napoleon Bonaparte (segment: Napoleon and Josephine) | 1954-12-24 |
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I cavalieri dell'illusione | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1954-12-24 |
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They Who Dare | Captain George Two | 1954-02-02 |
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La donna del fiume | Enzo Cinti | 1954-12-29 |
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Father Brown | Inspector Dubois | 1954-06-08 |
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The Sword and the Rose | Dauphin of France | 1953-07-23 |
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Sea Devils | Napoleon | 1953-04-12 |
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Horizons sans fin | (voice) | 1953-04-26 |
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The Heart of the Matter | Yusef | 1953-11-03 |
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Le Costaud des Batignolles | Narrator (voice) | 1952-04-30 |
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Sans laisser d'adresse | Un journaliste | 1951-01-17 |
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La nuit est mon royaume | Lionel Moreau | 1951-08-09 |
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Garou Garou, le passe-muraille | Maurice | 1951-04-06 |
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La Souricière | (uncredited) | 1950-01-27 |
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La Belle que voilà | Bruno | 1950-04-21 |
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Jo la Romance | Roland Grenier | 1949-03-04 |
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Le Secret de Mayerling | (uncredited) | 1949-05-07 |
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Du Guesclin | Le Dauphin | 1949-06-03 |
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Antoine et Antoinette | Le client galant | 1947-09-27 |
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Les Petits Riens | Philinte | 1942-12-16 |
