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Gérard Oury

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Nascita
29 aprile 1919 · Paris, France
Morte
19 luglio 2006

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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. 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) and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay (Le crime ne paie pas). Pairing André Bourvil and Louis de Funès as a comic duo, he burst into commercial filmmaking with 1965's The Sucker (Le corniaud). The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. 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. Source: Article "Gérard Oury" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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Locandina di Tre uomini in fuga
Tre uomini in fuga
Film · 1966 · ★ 7,9
Locandina di Le folli avventure di Rabbi Jacob
Le folli avventure di Rabbi Jacob
Film · 1973 · ★ 7,4
Locandina di Mania di grandezza
Mania di grandezza
Film · 1971 · ★ 7,4
Locandina di Colpo grosso ma non troppo
Colpo grosso ma non troppo
Film · 1965 · ★ 7,4
Locandina di L'amore ha due facce
L'amore ha due facce
Film · 1996 · ★ 6,7
Locandina di L'asso degli assi
L'asso degli assi
Film · 1982 · ★ 7,1
Locandina di Il cervello
Il cervello
Film · 1969 · ★ 7,3
Locandina di Le Coup du parapluie
Le Coup du parapluie
Film · 1980 · ★ 6,9
Locandina di La Soif de l'or
La Soif de l'or
Film · 1993 · ★ 5,5
Locandina di Intrigo a Stoccolma
Intrigo a Stoccolma
Film · 1963 · ★ 6,7
Locandina di La svignata
La svignata
Film · 1978 · ★ 6,6
Locandina di La Vengeance du serpent à plumes
La Vengeance du serpent à plumes
Film · 1984 · ★ 4,7

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