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The director and actor Gérard Oury was born as Max-Gérard
Houry in Paris. S
His mother was a journalist, his father a violinist.
When he decided to become an actor he took acting lessons and went
to the conservatory where he studied together with Bernard
Blier and François Périer.
Especially the courses with Louis Jouvet influenced his future life.
He began his career as an actor at the theater and later in movies where
he often impersonated negative characters.
To his well-known movies as an actor belong "Les petits riens" (42),
"Antoine et Antoinette" (47), "Sea Devils" (53), "The Sword and the Rose"
(53), "Father Brown" (54), "Les héros sont fatigués - Die
Helden sind müde" (55), "Le septième ciel" (58) and "Le miroir
à deux faces" (58).
From 1960 he also began to direct movies and he was especially successful
in the funny line. Together with the comedian Louis
de Funès he realised several movies, among them "Le corniaud"
(65), "La grande vadrouille" (66), "La folie des grandeurs - Die dummen
Streiche der Reichen" (71) and "Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob" (73).
Other preferred actors in his movies were Bourvil
and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
To his last movies as a director belong "L'as des as - Das As der Asse"
(83), "Lévy et Goliath" (87), "Fantôme avec chauffeur" (96)
and "Le schpountz" (99).
Gérard Oury was awarded with the Honory-César in 1993
for his lifework.
Other movies from Gérard Oury (Director):
La main chaude (60) La menace (60) Le crime ne paie pas
(62) Le cerveau (69) La carapate (78) Le coup du parapluie (80) La vengeance
du serpent à plumes (84) Vanille fraise (89) La soif de l'or (93)
Writer:
Le miroir à deux faces (58) Un témoin dans
la ville (59) Babette s'en va-t-en guerre (59) Voulez-vous danser avec
moi? (59) La main chaude (60) Le crime ne paie pas (62) Le corniaud (65)
La grande vadrouille (66) Le cerveau (69) La folie des grandeurs - Die
dummen Streiche der Reichen (71) Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob (73) La carapate
(78) Le coup du parapluie (80) L'as des as - Das As der Asse (83) La vengeance
du serpent à plumes (84) Lévy et Goliath (87) Vanille fraise
(89) La soif de l'or (93) Le schpountz (99)
Actor:
Jo-la-Romance (48) Du Guesclin (48) La belle que voilà
(50) Sans laisser d'adresse (51) Le passe-muraille (51) La nuit est mon
royaume (51) The Heart of the Matter (53) They Who Dare (53) L'eterna femmina
(54) L'amante di Paride (54) La donna del fiume (55) La meilleure part
(56) House of Secrets (56) Méfiez-vous fillettes (57) Le dos au
mur (58) The Journey (59) La main chaude (60) La menace (60) The Prize
(63) A couteaux tirés (64) Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà
(86) Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages (03) |
