Gilbert Comtois

Acting

Gilbert Comtois

Born August 15, 1937

Died May 19, 2021 · aged 83

No biography available.

Known For

Hold-upHold-up · 1985
Hold-up
6.11985
MovieComedyCrime
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
OrdersOrders · 1974
Orders
7.31974
MovieDramaHistory
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
ScandaleScandale · 1982
Scandale
4.01982
MovieComedy
La FloridaLa Florida · 1993
La Florida
5.81993
MovieComedy
Tired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading their turf. However, that is not even the beginning of their troubles...
The Plouffe FamilyThe Plouffe Family · 1981
The Plouffe Family
6.91981
MovieDrama
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
L'Arrache-cœurL'Arrache-cœur · 1979
L'Arrache-cœur
9.01979
MovieDrama
A woman's marriage is in crisis as a result of her difficult and complex relationship with her mother.
Maria ChapdelaineMaria Chapdelaine · 1983
Maria Chapdelaine
6.21983
MovieDrama
A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
Shabbot Shalom!Shabbot Shalom! · 1992
Shabbot Shalom!
10.01992
MovieComedyDrama
The mayor of a suburban town must try to deal with cultural clashes with the local hassidic jewish community, while trying to mend his relation to his emotionally-distant son.

Filmography

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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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