Gérard Oury

Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury
	Oury in 1984
Born	Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919; Paris, France
Died	20 July 2006 (aged 87); Saint-Tropez, France
Years active	1942–2003
Spouse	Michèle Morgan (m. 1960)

Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer.

Life and career

Max-Gérard Houry-Tannenbaum was the only son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist of

Jew.^[3]

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 [fr]) and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay (Le crime ne paie pas).

Pairing

Le corniaud). The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.^[4] 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.^[5]

Filmography

Actor
Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1942	Les Petits Riens	Philinte	Raymond Leboursier
1947	Antoine and Antoinette	a customer	Jacques Becker
1949	Jo la Romance	Roland Grenier	Gilles Grangier
1949	Du Guesclin	Charles V of France	Bernard Delatour
1950	La Souricière	Petit rôle	Henri Calef	Uncredited
1949	La Belle que voilà	Bruno	Jean-Paul Le Chanois
1951	Without Leaving an Address	a journalist	Jean-Paul Le Chanois
1951	Mr. Peek-a-Boo	Maurice	Jean Boyer
1951	The Night Is My Kingdom	Lionel Moreau	Georges Lacombe
1952	Le Costaud des Batignolles	Récitant / Narrator	Guy Lacourt	Voice
1953	Endless Horizons		Jean Dréville	Voice
1953	Sea Devils	Napoleon	Raoul Walsh
1953	The Sword and the Rose	the Dauphin	Ken Annakin
1953	The Heart of the Matter	Yusef	George More O'Ferrall
1954	They Who Dare	Captain George Two	Lewis Milestone
1954	Father Brown	Inspector Dubois	Robert Hamer
1954	Loves of Three Queens	Napoleon Bonaparte	Marc Allégret and Edgar G. Ulmer	(segment: Napoleon and Josephine)
1954	The River Girl	Enzo Cinti	Mario Soldati
1954	I cavalieri dell'illusione	Napoleone Bonaparte	Marc Allégret
1955	The Heroes Are Tired	Villeterre	Yves Ciampi
1956	La Meilleure Part	Gérard Bailly - un ingénieur	Yves Allégret
1956	House of Secrets	Julius Pindar	Guy Green
1957	Méfiez-vous fillettes	Marcel Palmer	Yves Allégret
1958	Le Septième Ciel	Maurice Portal	Raymond Bernard
1958	Back to the Wall	Jacques Decrey	Édouard Molinaro
1958	Le Miroir à deux faces	Doctor Bosc	André Cayatte
1959	The Journey	Teklel Hafouli	Anatole Litvak
1960	La Main chaude	Cameo Appearance	Gérard Oury	Uncredited
1961	The Menace	Le docteur	Gérard Oury
1963	The Prize	Doctor Claude Marceau	Mark Robson
1986	A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later	Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'	Claude Lelouch	Uncredited
2003	Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages	Le général de La Motte-Noire	Pierre Schoendoerffer	(final film role)
Director
Year	Title	Cast	Notes
1960	La Main chaude [fr]	with Jacques Charrier and Macha Méril	also credited as writer
1961	La Menace [fr]	with Robert Hossein and Marie-José Nat
1962	Crime Does Not Pay	Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Edwige Feuillère, Gino Cervi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Annie Girardot, Pierre Brasseur, and others	also credited as writer
1965	The Sucker	starring Bourvil and Louis de Funès	also credited as writer
1966	La Grande Vadrouille	starring Bourvil, Louis de Funès and Terry-Thomas	also credited as writer
1969	The Brain	Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach and others	also credited as writer
1971	Delusions of Grandeur	starring Louis de Funès and Yves Montand	also credited as writer
1973	The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob	starring Louis de Funès	also credited as writer
1978	La Carapate	starring Pierre Richard	also credited as writer
1980	The Umbrella Coup	starring Pierre Richard	also credited as writer
1982	The Ace of Aces / The Super Ace	starring Jean-Paul Belmondo	also credited as writer
1984	La vengeance du serpent à plumes	starring Coluche, and Josiane Balasko	also credited as writer
1987	Lévy et Goliath [fr]	with Richard Anconina, and Michel Boujenah	also credited as writer
1993	La Soif de l'or	with Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Christian Clavier and others	also credited as writer
1996	Fantôme avec chauffeur [fr]	with Philippe Noiret, and Gérard Jugnot
1999	Le schpountz	with Smaïn, Sabine Azéma and others	also credited as writer
Writer only
Year	Title	Cast	Notes
1960	Come Dance with Me!	starring Brigitte Bardot	adaptation
1996	The Mirror Has Two Faces	with Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan and others	Remake of Le Miroir à deux faces (1958)

References

^ "Gérard Oury".
^ Laurent Bourdon [fr], Définitivement Belmondo, p. 239
^
JSTOR 26892954
, p. 29

^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
^ "Gérard Oury est décédé" (in French). Le Figaro. 20 July 2006.

External links

Gérard Oury at
IMDb
Gérard Oury at UniFrance Films

[1] "Gérard Oury".

[2] Laurent Bourdon [fr], Définitivement Belmondo, p. 239

[mimu-3] 
JSTOR 26892954
, p. 29

[Moscow1965-4] "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2012.

[5] "Gérard Oury est décédé" (in French). Le Figaro. 20 July 2006.

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