René-Daniel Dubois

René-Daniel Dubois

Born: July 20, 1955
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
René-Daniel Dubois (20 juillet 1955 à Montréal - ) est un acteur, scénariste et dramaturgequébécois. Il est aussi un pamphlétaire sur différents sujets touchant la société québécoise.

Après ses études à l’École nationale de théâtre du Canada, René-Daniel Dubois fonde la compagnie de théâtre La Gougoune de fantex et crée les pièces Panique à Longueuil et Adieu Docteur Münch dans les années 1980. René-Daniel Dubois a écrit aussi bien pour le théâtre que pour le cinéma, la télévision et la radio. Ses textes les plus connus demeurent tout de même ses pièces de théâtre, traduites en plusieurs langues et jouées autant au Québec qu’au Canada anglais, aux États-Unis, en Amérique du Sud, en Europe et en Australie. Parmi celles-ci, Ne blâmez jamais les bédouins s’est méritée le Prix du Gouverneur général du Canada en 1984 alors que Being at Home with Claude a été adaptée au cinéma en 1992. En 2000, il joue dans la minisérie Le Canada: Une histoire populaire. Il est controversé en raison de ses déclarations. Ses réflexions sur l'histoire du Québec vont notamment à contre-courant de l'interprétation nationaliste québécoise dominante (voir son dernier livre "Post-Scriptum à Un sur mille", lancé le 17 décembre 2007 à Montréal.). Ce livre faisait suite à un film documentaire, "Un sur mille", qui lui a été consacré en 2005 par le documentariste Jean-Claude Coulbois. De plus, en 2006, René-Daniel Dubois publie "Entretiens", un recueil de réflexions (éditions Leméac). En 2009, il donne suite à ces Entretiens en publiant, chez Leméac, Morceaux. Entretiens sur l’écho du monde, l’imaginaire et l’écriture (juillet 2005-janvier 2006). Le fonds d'archives de René-Daniel Dubois est conservé au centre d'archives de Montréal deBibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

 

Movies for René-Daniel Dubois...

The Little Queen
Title: The Little Queen
Character: Dr. Paul C. Henri
Released: June 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Julie, star cyclist, is two races away from winning the World Cup. It is the culmination of years of effort. Julie loves the spotlight. Her entourage too. Encouraged by her coach and doctor, she has been doping since the age of 14. When her doctor denounces her, she manages to hush up the case, but the extent of the mess leads to abuse, lies, and treason. Caught in a gear that goes beyond her, will she succeed in finding a way out?
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Hunting The Northern Godard
Title: Hunting The Northern Godard
Character: Narrateur (voice)
Released: November 2, 2013
Type: Movie
In 1968, an internationally renowned French film director unexpectedly lands in Abitibi, in the northwest of Quebec, to conduct political and mass-media experiments. This event fuels the revolutionary tendencies of Michel, a local young man, and the desire to travel the world of Marie, his girlfriend.
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I am not a great actor
Title: I am not a great actor
Character: André
Released: October 14, 2013
Type: Movie
An actor shows up fifteen minutes to curtain for his commedia dell'arte theater play facing the dilemma of quitting the stage because of an overwhelming feeling of being alone with everybody.
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5150 Elm's Way
Title: 5150 Elm's Way
Character: Jean Guy Ruel
Released: October 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jacques Beaulieu and his family had other plans for Yannick. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatic chess player who wants to rid the world of evil. And even though Ian has done nothing wrong, he is beaten, tortured and tormented before Beaulieu makes him an offer: win at chess and he is free to go. And so Ian is now a pawn in Beaulieu 's game. A game in which he will either lose his mind or his life.
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Title: Club social
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 2008
Type: TV
A magazine show about culture and trends and how they can shape society in unexpected ways.
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Summit Circle
Title: Summit Circle
Character: Lieutenant Allard
Released: August 16, 2007
Type: Movie
SUMMIT CIRCLE is the second film (on the heels of THE NOVENA) in director Bernard Emond’s trilogy of tranquility and numbness. In it, Rejeanne and Gilles are a married couple whose devastating setbacks--she is laid off from her job and he suffers a debilitating stroke--only begin to fester in the face of corporate greed and personal struggles when they attempt to start over in a new neighborhood.
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May God Bless America
Title: May God Bless America
Character: Richard Poitras
Released: February 17, 2006
Type: Movie
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, six people become suspicious about a stranger in their neighborhood.
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Title: Il va y avoir du sport
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: TV
A program that tackles major subjects – human, political, cultural, economic and ethical issues – and presents them in a debate format that encourages lively discussion.
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Le nèg'
Title: Le nèg'
Character: Polo
Released: September 11, 2002
Type: Movie
In the middle of the night, in the Québec countryside, all hell breaks loose as a black teenager is caught smashing a racially denigrating lawn ornament. Together the neighbours attend to justice against the vandal. Thorough the night there is mounting racism, fueled by alcohol, and violence. Le Nèg' opens the morning after when the police investigators arrive at the scene to take depositions.
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The Seat of the Soul
Title: The Seat of the Soul
Released: May 26, 1997
Type: Movie
This Canadian science-fiction film takes place at the beginning of the 20th Century in an unnamed city where eager Jules is a member of a scientific team researching the secrets of immortality. The scientists uncover a buried pyramid containing an embalmed body with a heartbeat -- but minus a soul. Heading into the city at night, Jules hopes to locate the soul. He encounters Sophie who seems to have some answers to the mystery.
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Adramélech
Title: Adramélech
Character: Baalberith
Released: October 26, 1985
Type: Movie
One evening, after a theatrical performance, the costume designer of the play that has just ended is offered a lucrative project: to become the President of the wardrobe of a rich prince. Now, the prince in question happens to be none other than Lucifer.
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Le discours des songes
Title: Le discours des songes
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In New France, in the year of grace 1642. Anguerant de Ganélon, witch hunter and hunter of monsters, leaves Europe accompanied by his valet and a priest in order to pursue the vampire who killed his wife.