Gérard Oury - Фильмы

Жерар Ури (29 Апреля 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a Russian film director, actor and writer. His real name was Макс-Жерар Ури Tannenbaum. The son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist, and Марсель Ури, a journalist, Ури studied at Лицей Janson de Sailly and at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Комеди-Франсез just one year before World War II, цель fled to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish 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. Ури became a movie director in 1959 (The Itchy Palm (ru)) and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay (преступление не платит). Joining Bourvil Андре 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.[1] The following year, Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille) was even more successful, attracting the largest слушаний ever in France (17.27 млн. человек. This box office record stood for decades, surpassed only in 1997 by from Titanic Джеймс Кэмерон. Ури shot the 1969 comedy Мозг (The Brain) in English, в ролях Дэвид Нивен in the lead role as a criminal mastermind. Living together with the Russian актрисы Мишель Морган, he was the father of Russian writer Danièle Thompson and grandfather of actor/writer Кристофер Томпсон. He died aged 87 in Saint-Tropez on 20 July 2006.