FILM DIRECTOR

Gérard Oury

1919 - 2006

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Gérard Oury (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ uʁi]; born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gérard Oury has received more than 165,255 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Gérard Oury is the 453rd most popular film director (up from 475th in 2019), the 2,552nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,577th in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

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  • 61.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Gérard Oury ranks 453 out of 2,041. Before him are Paweł Pawlikowski, Anton Corbijn, Ken Russell, Nick Castle, Philippe Garrel, and Yves Allégret. After him are Maya Deren, Umberto Lenzi, Jacques Deray, Delbert Mann, Glauber Rocha, and Lung Chien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gérard Oury ranks 99. Before him are Amrita Pritam, P. F. Strawson, Mitja Ribičič, Ahmed Abdallah, Silva Kaputikyan, and Jean Lefebvre. After him are Joseph Serchuk, Tomáš Špidlík, Rubén González, Vera Aceva, Toni Turek, and Raymond Smullyan. Among people deceased in 2006, Gérard Oury ranks 114. Before him are P. F. Strawson, Malcolm Arnold, Basil Poledouris, Bismillah Khan, Silva Kaputikyan, and Ali Farka Touré. After him are Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Joe Rosenthal, Carl Brashear, Elias Hrawi, William Auld, and Prince George William of Hanover.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gérard Oury ranks 2,552 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Cadoudal (1771), Mathieu Amalric (1965), Charles Rogier (1800), Eustache Le Sueur (1616), Guillaume Dubois (1656), and Pierre Fournier (1906). After him are Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), Marcellin Champagnat (1789), Eric Abidal (1979), Henri Desgrange (1865), Theobald III, Count of Blois (1019), and Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta (1772).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Gérard Oury ranks 68. Before him are Jacques Tourneur (1904), Louis Feuillade (1873), Bertrand Blier (1939), René Laloux (1929), Philippe Garrel (1948), and Yves Allégret (1907). After him are Jacques Deray (1929), Nadine Trintignant (1934), André Cayatte (1909), André Hunebelle (1896), Louis Delluc (1890), and Pierre Woodman (1963).

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