1919-04-29 ( 105 years old ) in Paris, France
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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.
Movies
Les Rois de la comédie
2023-01-01
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017-09-01
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
2016-11-22
La Folle Heure des grandis
2002-01-01
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986-05-13
The Prize
1963-12-25
The Menace
1961-03-01
The Itchy Palm
1960-02-03
The Journey
1959-02-11
Moana
1959-01-01
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1958-10-15
Back to the Wall
1958-03-07
Seventh Heaven
1958-03-05
Young Girls Beware
1957-07-04
Les Marines
1957-01-01
House of Secrets
1956-10-23
L'homme au parapluie
1956-03-10
The Best Part
1955-12-30
Heroes and Sinners
1955-09-12
Woman of the River
1954-12-29
Loves of Three Queens
1954-12-24
The Fate of Two Queens
1954-12-24
Father Brown
1954-06-08
They Who Dare
1954-02-02
The Heart of the Matter
1953-11-03
The Sword and the Rose
1953-07-23
Endless Horizons
1953-04-26
Sea Devils
1953-04-12
Le Costaud des Batignolles
1952-04-30
The Night Is My Kingdom
1951-08-09
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
1951-04-06
Without Leaving an Address
1951-01-17
Here Is the Beauty
1950-04-21
Sorceror
1950-01-27
Du Guesclin
1949-06-03
The Secret of Mayerling
1949-05-07
Jo la Romance
1949-03-04
Antoine & Antoinette
1947-09-27
Little Nothings
1942-12-16
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