Yvon Dufour

Yvon Dufour

Born: November 1, 1931
Died: February 10, 1999
in Couville, Québec, Canada

Movies for Yvon Dufour...

The Lucky Star
Title: The Lucky Star
Character: Burgomeister
Released: May 28, 1982
Type: Movie
In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
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Title: Le temps d'une paix
Character: Curé Chouinard
Released: October 29, 1980
Type: TV
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King Solomon's Treasure
Title: King Solomon's Treasure
Character: Alphonse
Released: May 31, 1979
Type: Movie
Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
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Angela
Title: Angela
Character: François
Released: November 10, 1977
Type: Movie
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.
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Les beaux dimanches
Title: Les beaux dimanches
Character: Omer
Released: October 10, 1974
Type: Movie
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Hold on to Daddy's Ears
Title: Hold on to Daddy's Ears
Released: December 25, 1971
Type: Movie
The tribulations of two Québec nationalists in the English-speaking world of insurance. A satire that draws its irony from a specific social situation. A typical example of the era's popular comedies based on television and trendy stars, which gave birth to a certain commercial stream in Québec cinema.
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Those Damned Savages
Title: Those Damned Savages
Character: Police officer
Released: March 20, 1971
Type: Movie
A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.
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Red the Half Breed
Title: Red the Half Breed
Character: Det. Sgt. Brunette
Released: March 26, 1970
Type: Movie
A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. But when he is accused of murdering his half-sister who was killed with his rifle, he flees to an indian village. He doesn't feel any more at home there than in the white city. He decides to go back to find and punish the killer.
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Caïn - Les marcheurs de la nuit
Title: Caïn - Les marcheurs de la nuit
Character: Maurice, le barman
Released: February 4, 1965
Type: Movie
The conflicts between Jean, a penniless painter, and his brother Luc, a successful lawyer. Adapted from a novel by Réal Giguère, which revives the Thebiblical story of Cain and Abel. An interesting look at Quebec in the Sixties.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God
Title: Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God
Character: James Finley
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
This short drama is a portrait of Quebec lawyer and politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871). A proud, defiant man, skillful in parliamentary debate, and Speaker of the Lower House, his heart was with the people being pillaged by the business elite. When legislation became the instrument of private advantage, Papineau brought government to a standstill. - NFB