FILM DIRECTOR

Gérard Oury

1919 - 2006

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Gérard Oury (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 150,734 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 2,551st most popular biography from France (up from 2,577th in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gérard Ouries by language

Over the past year Gérard Oury has had the most page views in the with 147,737 views, followed by English (19,899), and Russian (12,132). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (123.54%), Malagasy (78.01%), and Arabic (51.48%)

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 2,551 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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Filmography

Back to the Wall
Director
Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For revenge, he bombards her with anonymous letters, convincing her that her lover is the culprit while Gloria desperately seeks a way out.
Mar 7o 19586.6 / 10
The Prize
Director
A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Dec 25o 19637 / 10
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Director
A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses as Garou-Garou, a dangerous gangster to attempt to woo her affections, but is arrested and sent to jail. While in jail he annoys the guards by walking in and out of his cell, and keeps persuading Susan to cease her criminal way of life. As fundamentally being an honest and law-abiding citizen, he eventually handles back everything he has stolen, is acquitted by the court, and becomes famous and respected. When he learns that Susan is planning to return to England and start a new life, he decides to confess to her his emotions. However, the couple is interrupted by a sudden rush of journalists. Trying to escape in a building, they get cornered on a corridor, and Léon pushes Susan through a nearby wall. But by doing this, he loses his own wall-walking ability, and the film concludes.
Apr 6o 19516.329 / 10