Benoît Girard

Acting

Benoît Girard

Born January 26, 1932 · Montréal, Québec, Canada

Died March 25, 2017 · aged 85

Benoît Girard (January 26, 1932 – March 25, 2017) was an actor known for Nuremberg, Les rescapés and Minuit, le soir.

Known For

Brutalités amoureusesBrutalités amoureuses · 1972
Brutalités amoureuses
3.01972
Movie
Distraught, Catherine wanders the Canadian countryside and takes refuge in an isolated villa. She talks to David, the owner, about her past: drugs, psychiatric hospital, murder of a nurse. Her friends show up and throw a party, which gets out of hand.
Pudding chômeurPudding chômeur · 1996
Pudding chômeur
5.51996
MovieComedy
Deliberately Felliniesque, this surreal and uneven Canadian satire from iconoclastic French Canadian director Gilles Carle offers an episodic look into an anarchistic, metaphorical world filled with a bizarre assortment of weirdos, wackos and misanthropes. The story roughly centers on the adventures of Yo-Yo, a young woman who is first seen acting as a high priestess for a ceremony involving the miraculous healing powers of the little boy Alphonse.
The RocketThe Rocket · 2005
The Rocket
6.92005
MovieDrama
The story of Quebec's most beloved hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
A Family SecretA Family Secret · 2006
A Family Secret
5.42006
MovieDramaComedy
A woman learns secrets about her family while attending the funeral of her father.
Happy CamperHappy Camper · 2004
Happy Camper
5.62004
MovieComedyCrime
Pierre-Louis Cinq-Mars is a successful stockbroker. Everything in his life is well-ordered -- stock investments, luxury car, the latest computer, stylish and tasteful clothes...well-ordered to the point of being utterly predictable. Jackie Pigeon, the owner of the Camping Pigeon campground, is a go-getter who always gets her way. She conducts her business with a sure hand and everything at the campground runs smoothly. Her life is the complete opposite of Pierre-Louis's -- she's rather messy, of modest means, wears flamboyant and sexy clothes...everything in her life hovers on the edge of bad taste. Two people from completely different worlds whose paths would not normally have been fated to cross.
Father and GunsFather and Guns · 2009
Father and Guns
6.32009
MovieActionComedy
To save the life of fellow cop kidnapped by a biker gang, a father and a son who cannot stand the sight of each other infiltrate an outdoor adventure group-therapy for fathers and sons. Their biggest challenge is to survive the therapy without killing each other.
Les 90 JoursLes 90 Jours · 1959
Les 90 Jours
7.51959
MovieDrama
Shooting StarShooting Star · 2005
Shooting Star
6.62005
MovieComedy
Four young women are participating on Idole Instantanée, a reality show produced by Omni Global, in which a complete stranger turns into a music star in just 24 hours.

Filmography

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Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, le filmDans une galaxie près de chez vous, le film · 2004
Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, le film
7.42004
MovieComedyAction
The movie chronicles the long, futuristic voyage of a team of Québécois space explorers looking for a planet capable of sustaining life, in the year 2034, after the destruction of the ozone layer through excessive human pollution, prompting the need for a new planet to welcome humankind. The seven crew members venture outside their own galaxy to explore other star system in search of a new planet large enough to sustain 6 billion people. The few habitable planets encountered are ultimately abandoned either because they are already occupied (emphasizing the wrongdoing of invading other civilizations and cultures), or because upon closer inspection they are found to have other problems (cow-sized mosquitoes, high radiation levels, dog overpopulation, unsuitable living environment, ...).

Kerplunk

Lance et CompteLance et Compte · 1986
Lance et Compte
4.31986
SeriesDrama
Lance et Compte is a series of Quebec téléromans revolving around a Quebec City ice hockey team. The series aired from 1986 to 1989 on the Radio-Canada network, and revival series on TQS in 2001 and on TVA from 2004 to the present. The first season was filmed in both French and English, the English version appearing on CBC Television as He Shoots, He Scores. It was the first television series to air simultaneously in English on CBC and in French on Radio-Canada. The series was scripted by Réjean Tremblay and Louis Caron for the first season, and by Tremblay and Jacques Jacob after that. Following the end of the regular series, a number of television movies continued to air into the 1990s. A new generation of the series started to air in 2001 and a movie was made in 2010.

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