Gérard Oury
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-04-29 (87 years old)
Deathday
2006-07-19
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also known As
Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum
Gerard Oury
Жерар Ури
Gérard Oury
Biography
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 ...
Acting
1963
as Claude Marceau
2023
as Self (archive footage)
2002
as Self
1949
as Le Dauphin
1951
as Maurice
1941
as Philinte
1961
as The Doctor
1959
as Teklel Hafouli
1986
as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
1950
as Bruno
1949
as (uncredited)
1950
as (uncredited)
1951
as Lionel Moreau
1958
as docteur Bosc
1954
as Inspector Dubois
1958
as Jacques Decrey
2016
as Self (archive footage)
1956
as Julius Pindar
1953
as Yusef
1954
as Enzo Cinti
1958
as Maurice Portal
2017
as Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
1957
as Récitant (voice)
1960
as Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1959
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1954
as Captain George Two
1953
as Napoleon
1951
as Un journaliste
1952
as Narrator (voice)
1957
as Marcel Palmer
1947
as Le client galant
1954
as Napoleon Bonaparte (segment: Napoleon and Josephine)
1955
as Gérard Bailly
1953
as Dauphin of France
1953
as (voice)
1954
as Napoleon Bonaparte
1955
as Villeterre
1949
as Roland Grenier
1956
as Grégory Black
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1973
as Screenplay
1973
as Director
1966
as Director
1966
as Screenplay
1965
as Director
1965
as Screenplay
1969
as Director
1971
as Director
1980
as Director
1999
as Director
1978
as Writer
1978
as Director
1982
as Director
1978
as Idea
1984
as Director
1989
as Director
1962
as Director
1962
as Scenario Writer
1982
as Writer
1996
as Director
1993
as Director
1969
as Writer
1960
as Screenplay
1989
as Writer
1980
as Writer
1959
as Writer
1987
as Screenplay
1984
as Writer
1961
as Director
1993
as Writer
1958
as Writer
1961
as Screenplay
1996
as Original Story
1987
as Director
1960
as Director
1959
as Screenplay
1971
as Writer
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