Gérard Oury

About

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,...

Known for

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!Movie • 1966The Mad Adventures of Rabbi JacobMovie • 1973The Mirror Has Two FacesMovie • 1996Ace of AcesMovie • 1982The SuckerMovie • 1965Delusions of GrandeurMovie • 1971Umbrella CoupMovie • 1980The BrainMovie • 1969Out of ItMovie • 1978The PrizeMovie • 1963The JourneyMovie • 1959They Who DareMovie • 1954A Man and a Woman: 20 Years LaterMovie • 1986Sea DevilsMovie • 1953Come Dance with Me!Movie • 1959Mr. Peek-a-BooMovie • 1951Back to the WallMovie • 1958The Sword and the RoseMovie • 1953Antoine & AntoinetteMovie • 1947Witness in the CityMovie • 1959The Vengeance of the Winged SerpentMovie • 1984The Thirst for GoldMovie • 1993The Mirror Has Two FacesMovie • 1958The Night Is My KingdomMovie • 1951