**FILE** Director Gerard Oury, right, seen in this July 8, 1968 file photo with French actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, left, and Bourvil, died Thursday, July 20, 2006. Oury, 87, a cultural icon of France whose decades-old comedies remain hits today, died at his Riviera home in Saint Tropez. Oury, who began as an actor, directed a series of hit films that keep the French laughing today. Besides « Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, » (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) Oury is best known for the 1966 movie « La Grande Vadrouille, » (Don’t Look Now _ We’re Being Shot At), »Le Cerveau » « (The Brain) ». (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy)/OBIT_OURY_PAR109//0607201352