Known for
Directing
Born
April 29, 1919
Birthplace
Paris, France
Died
July 19, 2006 (aged 87)
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 stud...
2023
as Self (archive footage)
2022
2017
as Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
2016
as Self (archive footage)
2013
as Self (archive footage)
2002
as Self
1999
Director
1998
1996
Original Story
1996
Director
1993
Director, Writer
1989
Director, Writer
1987
1987
1987
1987
Screenplay, Director
1986
as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
1984
Director, Writer
1982
Director, Writer
1982
1980
Director, Writer
1978
Director, Writer
1978
1978
1975