GĂ©rard Oury
Known for Directing · 54 credits
- Born
- 1919-04-29
- Died
- 2006-07-19
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Also known as
- Max-GĂ©rard Houry Tannenbaum · Gerard Oury · ĐĐ”ŃĐ°Ń ĐŁŃĐž · Max-GĂ©rard Houry Tenenbaum
Biography
GĂ©rard Oury (born Max-GĂ©rard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 â 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 DaniÚle 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 FunÚs 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.
Known For
TV Shows (13)
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Vivement dimanche
1998
as Self
Apostrophes
1975
as Self
Sacrée soirée
1987
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Le Grand Ăchiquier
1972
as Self / Self - Main Guest
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
as Self
Cinépanorama
1956
as Self
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
SystĂšme 2
1975
as Self
Ă bout portant
1968
as Self
Matin Bonheur
1987
as Self
Movies (41)
The Prize
1963
as Claude Marceau
Sea Devils
1953
as Napoleon
The Journey
1959
as Teklel Hafouli
Father Brown
1954
as Inspector Dubois
The Sword and the Rose
1953
as Dauphin of France
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Loves of Three Queens
1954
as Napoleon Bonaparte (segment: Napoleon and Josephine)
Woman of the River
1954
as Enzo Cinti
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986
as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà '
Without Leaving an Address
1951
as Un journaliste
The Heart of the Matter
1953
as Yusef
They Who Dare
1954
as Captain George Two
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
1951
as Maurice
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1958
as docteur Bosc
Ă la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
House of Secrets
1956
as Julius Pindar
Du Guesclin
1949
as Le Dauphin
The Menace
1961
as The Doctor
Antoine & Antoinette
1947
as Le client galant
Heroes and Sinners
1955
as Villeterre
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Back to the Wall
1958
as Jacques Decrey
The Secret of Mayerling
1949
as (uncredited)
Jo la Romance
1949
as Roland Grenier
The Fate of Two Queens
1954
as Napoleon Bonaparte
The Best Part
1955
as GĂ©rard Bailly
Le Costaud des Batignolles
1952
as Narrator (voice)
Louis de FunÚs, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Here Is the Beauty
1950
as Bruno
The Four of Moana
1959
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Young Girls Beware
1957
as Marcel Palmer
Endless Horizons
1953
as (voice)
The Itchy Palm
1960
as Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
The Marines
1957
as RĂ©citant (voice)
Sorceror
1950
as (uncredited)
The Night Is My Kingdom
1951
as Lionel Moreau
Seventh Heaven
1958
as Maurice Portal
La Folle Heure des grandis
2002
as Self
Little Nothings
1941
as Philinte
L'homme au parapluie
1956
as Grégory Black
About GĂ©rard Oury
GĂ©rard Oury (born Max-GĂ©rard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 â 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-GĂ©rard 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.⊠With 54 credits spanning from 1941 to 2023, GĂ©rard Oury has appeared in 41 films and 13 TV shows.
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- The Prize (1963) â as Claude Marceau
- Sea Devils (1953) â as Napoleon
- The Journey (1959) â as Teklel Hafouli
- Father Brown (1954) â as Inspector Dubois
- The Sword and the Rose (1953) â as Dauphin of France
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