Gabriel Gascon

Gabriel Gascon

Born: January 8, 1927
Died: May 30, 2018
in Montreal, Canada

Movies for Gabriel Gascon...

Mars and April
Title: Mars and April
Character: Arlequin
Released: October 5, 2012
Type: Movie
In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments inspired by women's bodies, designed by his friend Arthur. A love triangle develops when Jacob and Arthur both fall in love with Avril, a young photographer. Enter Eugène Spaak, Arthur's father, an inventor and cosmologist who unveils a new theory about man's desire to reach Mars and helps Jacob find the true meaning of life and love.
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Adam's Wall
Title: Adam's Wall
Released: October 17, 2008
Type: Movie
As another Middle East crisis explodes, Adam, a Jewish teenager and Yasmine a Lebanese girl fall in love in Montreal. But the crisis overseas effects their relationship in ways they never expected.
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Guide de la petite vengeance
Title: Guide de la petite vengeance
Character: M. Vendôme
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Bernard, an accountant in an upscale jewellery store, suffers from daily psychological abuse by his boss Vendôme. Thanks to his pal Robert, also victim of harassment by this cruel man, Bernard will toy with the consequence of a well-deserved retaliation at the expense of his boss. However, as not everything is perfect in this world, Bernard will also have to experience the sometimes less pleasant after effects of this ruthless act of revenge.
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Les Affluents - Volume II: Les eaux mortes
Title: Les Affluents - Volume II: Les eaux mortes
Character: Le vieux
Released: July 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Following her death, an old woman returns to haunt her husband and encourages him to pass away.
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La légende du sapin de Noël
Title: La légende du sapin de Noël
Character: Grand Chêne (voice)
Released: December 15, 2002
Type: Movie
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The Marsh
Title: The Marsh
Character: Pépé
Released: November 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Two social outcasts in 19th century Eastern Europe, Alexandre and Ulysse, become friends and settle down to live alone on the edge of a marsh that is reputedly haunted by demons, monsters and goblins. These two men have been outcasts all their lives. Alexandre was raised in a nomad family that traveled from town to town, being rejected by the people of his homeland. Due to his physical abnormalities, Ulysse has always been pushed aside ever since his childhood. When a strange murder is committed in a nearby village, the peasants turn their suspicions on Alexandre and Ulysse, because they are different. In the eyes of the villagers, they are demons that must be hunted, burned and killed.
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Waterfront Dreams
Title: Waterfront Dreams
Character: Bernard
Released: October 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A bittersweet tale about a small group of men and women whose forest adventures trigger memories of childhood and past loves. A harsh fantasy, wherein it is hard to tell whether the characters are living in their dreams, or dreaming away their lives.
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Looking for Leonard
Title: Looking for Leonard
Character: Martin
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Ted, his girlfriend Jo, and his brother Johnny are small-time robbers in Montreal. The brothers spend their time watching TV, while Jo rereads Leonard Cohen's novel "Beautiful Losers" and attends writing classes. Luka, a Czech immigrant, picks up Jo when he sees her shoplifting. When Johnny surprises Luka kissing Jo, he attacks him. In the ensuing fight Jo accidentally kills Johnny, and Luka leaves the scene, but drops his wallet. The police assume that Luka attacked Johnny after a break-in and Jo goes along with that, but feels guilty about it.
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Marriages
Title: Marriages
Character: Chanteur
Released: August 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Yvonne is a young woman living in Quebec in the latter half of the 19th century, under the controlling influence of both her elder sister, Hélène, and the repressive Victorian society that pervades the area. Yvonne has a sensual passion that her sister hopes to extinguish by placing her in a convent. As summer arrives, a strange dream suggests a different future, and Yvonne confronts the unexpected return of both her mother and her first love.
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Possible Worlds
Title: Possible Worlds
Character: Kleber / Doctor
Released: September 4, 2000
Type: Movie
The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.
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Title: Nuremberg
Character: Großadmiral Erich Raeder
Released: July 16, 2000
Type: TV
Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
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Sucre amer
Title: Sucre amer
Character: Le président
Released: January 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history of Guadeloupe who fought against the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte to preserve his freedom. A hero despite himself, Ignace's life and struggle were subsequently consigned to oblivion by his enemies. His treatment has left a bittersweet taste in the mouths of the people of Guadeloupe.
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The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
Title: The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
Character: Marshal Vega
Released: July 14, 1997
Type: Movie
A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants of Sepuvedra, a free-trade port. The government and the army are convinced that they have been kidnapped by aliens and Professor Larsen, an eminent astrophysicist and UFO expert, is assigned to lead an urgent investigative mission into the deserted town.
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Cosmos
Title: Cosmos
Character: Crépuscule (Segment "Aurore et Crépuscule")
Released: November 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.
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Le Silence des fusils
Title: Le Silence des fusils
Character: Pere Philbert
Released: August 27, 1996
Type: Movie
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Title: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Character: Georges Attends
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
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Matusalem
Title: Matusalem
Character: Captain Monbars
Released: December 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Fleeing from some other children who want to beat him, Olivier meets the ghost of a Pirate who every hundred years tries to find a parchment. Olivier agrees to help him. But in doing so he is captured by a bunch of pirates. The other children of the village discover a door thru time and space in an old haunted house and decide to rescue Olivier from Captain Monbars' pirates.
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Cap Tourmente
Title: Cap Tourmente
Character: Monsieur Simon
Released: May 27, 1993
Type: Movie
Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footsteps in that job. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he's too wrapped up in what's going on inside his head to notice.
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La vie fantôme
Title: La vie fantôme
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Pierre is in love with two women and has a stable relationship with both of them. His wife, all by herself, makes him feel whole. However, he has the identical feeling with his librarian mistress and cannot understand why this arrangement shouldn't be satisfactory for everyone concerned.
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The Tin Flute
Title: The Tin Flute
Character: Curé
Released: August 28, 1983
Type: Movie
In the early 1940's, Canada is a country at war and Florentine is a young woman, from a very poor family, looking for love. She meets two suitable men, a nice soldier from a good and wealthy family, and an ambitious self-centered engineer. She must decide whether she wants to follow her head or her heart...
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The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Title: The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Character: Narrator
Released: April 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
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La Menace
Title: La Menace
Character: Pannequin
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.
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The French Calvinists
Title: The French Calvinists
Released: February 22, 1972
Type: Movie
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons.
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Title: The Leatherstocking Tales
Character: Dr. Battius
Released: December 25, 1969
Type: TV
German miniseries based upon the novel, The Last of the Mohicans.
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Title: Agence Interim
Character: Barthélémy
Released: September 1, 1969
Type: TV
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The Prairie
Title: The Prairie
Released: June 4, 1969
Type: Movie
At the request of settler boss Miles Forman, Natty Bumppo leads his trek to Michilimackinac, accompanied by Chingachgook. The group of settlers includes the criminal Bush family. After a few days, the wagon trail meets the Pawnee Indian tribe, whose chief Weucha knows Natty and by whom the settlers are warmly received. On the onward journey, the Bush sons veer off to seemingly hunt but sell the Sioux weapons they had stolen from a fort before leaving. On the way back to the trek they are surprised by two hunting Pawnees. In the following fight, one of the Bush sons is killed. The archer is immediately shot, and the other Indian is supposed to be lynched in the camp of the whites. Chingachgook, however, cuts the rope with a bullet. Later, Father Ismael Bush incites the peaceful Pawnees and Sioux against each other by having a Sioux killed and leading suspicion to the Pawnees. The Sioux attack and destroy the Pawnee village.
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The Sergeant
Title: The Sergeant
Character: Paul (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1968
Type: Movie
THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges. In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France, Callan's deeply repressed attraction to other men surfaces when he encounters handsome Private Swanson. Maintaining the rugged "man's man" image of a war hero, Callan barks orders to his underlings. Later, lonely in his solitude, he recalls the frightening experiences of war and the events that led to this crossroads. Filled with self-loathing and unable to act on the natural attraction he feels for Swanson, Callan's affection festers into antagonism. He pushes Swanson constantly with verbal assaults and undeserved punishments.
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Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Title: Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Character: Lindas Vater
Released: December 11, 1968
Type: Movie
Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi collaborator and is imprisoned in the fortress of Sisteron.
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Title: Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Character: The Director of the Insurance Company
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: TV
L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.
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Title: The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
Character: Le truand #1
Released: October 14, 1967
Type: TV
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If I Were a Spy
Title: If I Were a Spy
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.