Gérard Oury
Directing
Born April 29, 1919 in Paris, France
Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 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 Danièle Thompson was born, his fatherhood was concealed, to avoid her classification as a Jew.
Filmography
Les Rois de la comédie
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Self (archive footage)
La Folle Heure des grandis
Self
Le Schpountz
Vivement dimanche
Self
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Ghost with Driver
The Thirst for Gold
Vanille fraise
Sacrée soirée
Self
Nulle part ailleurs
Self
Levy & Goliath
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
Ace of Aces
Champs-Elysées
Self
Umbrella Coup
Out of It
Et vive la liberté !
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Apostrophes
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Delusions of Grandeur
The Brain
À bout portant
Self
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
The Sucker
The Prize
Claude Marceau
Crime Does Not Pay
The Menace
The Doctor
The Itchy Palm
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Come Dance with Me!
Witness in the City
The Four of Moana
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Journey
Teklel Hafouli
The Mirror Has Two Faces
docteur Bosc
Back to the Wall
Jacques Decrey
Seventh Heaven
Maurice Portal
Young Girls Beware
Marcel Palmer
The Marines
Récitant (voice)
House of Secrets
Julius Pindar
L'homme au parapluie
Grégory Black
Cinépanorama
Self
The Best Part
Gérard Bailly
Heroes and Sinners
Villeterre
Woman of the River
Enzo Cinti
Loves of Three Queens
Napoleon Bonaparte (segment: Napoleon and Josephine)
The Fate of Two Queens
Napoleon Bonaparte
Father Brown
Inspector Dubois
They Who Dare
Captain George Two
The Heart of the Matter
Yusef
The Sword and the Rose
Dauphin of France
Sea Devils
Napoleon
Le Costaud des Batignolles
Narrator (voice)
The Night Is My Kingdom
Lionel Moreau
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Maurice
Without Leaving an Address
Un journaliste
Here Is the Beauty
Bruno
Sorceror
(uncredited)
Du Guesclin
Le Dauphin
The Secret of Mayerling
(uncredited)
Jo la Romance
Roland Grenier
Antoine & Antoinette
Le client galant
Little Nothings
Philinte