From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Gérard Oury 29 April 1919 20 July 2006 was a French film director actor and writer His real name was MaxGérard Houry Tannenbaum The son of Serge Tannenbaum a violinist and Marcelle Houry a journalist Oury studied at Lycée Janson de Sailly and at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art He became a member of the ComédieFrançaise just one year before World War II but fled to Switzerland to escape the antiJewish persecutions by the Vichy government After 1945 he 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 fr and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay Le crime ne paie pas Joining André Bourvil and Louis de Funès as a comic duo he burst into commercial filmmaking with 1965s The Sucker Le corniaud The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival1 The following year Dont Look Now Were Being Shot At La Grande Vadrouille was even more successful attracting the largest audiences ever in France 1727 million admissions This boxoffice 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 Living together with the French actress Michèle Morgan he was the father of French writer Danièle Thompson and grandfather of actorwriter Christopher Thompson He died aged 87 in SaintTropez on 20 July 2006
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