Gérard Oury

Directing · Born 1919-04-29 in Paris, France

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 and maternal grandmother Berthe Goldner. Oury studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became…

Filmography

• The Prize as Claude Marceau
• Les Rois de la comédie as Self (archive footage)
• Du Guesclin as Le Dauphin
• Mr. Peek-a-Boo as Maurice
• Little Nothings as Philinte
• The Menace as The Doctor
• The Journey as Teklel Hafouli
• A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
• The Secret of Mayerling as (uncredited)
• The Night Is My Kingdom as Lionel Moreau

TV

• Nulle part ailleurs as Self
• À bout portant as Self
• Le Grand Échiquier as Self
• Le Grand Échiquier as Self - Main Guest
• Samedi soir as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
• Champs-Elysées as Self
• Cinépanorama as Self
• Apostrophes as Self
• Vivement dimanche as Self