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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.
With actress Jacqueline Roman, he was the father of French writer
''Gérard Oury'' at ''UniFrance Films''
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Life and career
Max-Gérard Houry-Tannenbaum was the only son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist ofRussian-Jewish
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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. Mulvey, Michael. (2017). "What Was So Funny about ''Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob'' (1973): A Comedic Film between History and Memory", ''French Politics, Culture & Society'', 35(3), pp. 24-43 , p. 29 Oury studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
and then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française before World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
, but fled with all his family (mother, grandmother and unofficial wife, actress ) to Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
to escape the anti-Jewish persecutions by the Vichy government. When in 1942 his daughter Danielle 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 (') 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 4th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1965. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film ''War and Peace'' directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and the Hungarian film '' Twenty Hours'' directed by Zoltán Fábri.
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. 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
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'' from James Cameron
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.
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
Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.
She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films i ...
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
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on 20 July 2006.
Filmography
References
External links
*''Gérard Oury'' at ''UniFrance Films''
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