Rolland Bédard

Rolland Bédard

Born: November 29, 1913
Died: May 7, 1987

Movies for Rolland Bédard...

Le dernier havre
Title: Le dernier havre
Character: Old man at Hardware Store
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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Maria Chapdelaine
Title: Maria Chapdelaine
Character: Bedeau
Released: April 27, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Fantastica
Title: Fantastica
Released: May 7, 1980
Type: Movie
In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
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Cordélia
Title: Cordélia
Character: Tournecle Groulx
Released: February 7, 1980
Type: Movie
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
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Partis pour la gloire
Title: Partis pour la gloire
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1942 even after a formal promise from the Liberal Party of Canada in the last election: "Never the Conscription", the Canadian Government vote a Conscription Law. In Quebec where the French population was mostly unanimous against the obligation to go to war, seen as a Great-Britain Government request, many young men fled to the woods or in clandestineness.
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The True Nature of Bernadette
Title: The True Nature of Bernadette
Character: Agriculteur (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.
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Title: Rue des Pignons
Character: Anatole Marsouin
Released: September 6, 1966
Type: TV
Rue des Pignons was a French-Canadian TV series which ran from 1966 to 1977. Radio-Canada has reportedly lost most of the episodes of the series, only managing to trace about 35 of the 427 episodes from 1966 to 1977. The program's theme song was composed and recorded by Pierre Brabant who also played much of the show's background music.
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Big Red
Title: Big Red
Character: Conductor
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs, and Émile's wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), Haggin's cook and housekeeper, live in a separate house on the estate. To start a line of top show dogs, Haggin purchases the winner of the Montreal Kennel Club show, an Irish setter named Red.
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Dubois et fils
Title: Dubois et fils
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A health problem causes a business leader to think about what will happen to his company after his death.
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Les Brûlés
Title: Les Brûlés
Character: Antoine Plante
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
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La forteresse
Title: La forteresse
Released: April 22, 1947
Type: Movie
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.