Yvan Ponton

Yvan Ponton

Born: October 22, 1945
in Farnham, Québec, Canada
Yvan Ponton is a Canadian actor, commentator and television host. Ponton has had a lengthy acting career which includes roles in a variety of major French-Canadian television shows and movies. He is most well known to English-speaking audiences for his role as Drouin in the 1977 film Slap Shot.

Movies for Yvan Ponton...

The Boys - 25th Anniversary
Title: The Boys - 25th Anniversary
Character: Self
Released: December 17, 2023
Type: Movie
The Boys - 25th Anniversary follows a night with Michel Charette welcoming the core cast members to his bar! Rémy Girard, Marc Messier, Pierre Lebeau, Patrick Labbé, Yvan Ponton, Patrick Huard, Roc Lafortune and Paul Houde discuss their experiences filming Les Boys!
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Title: Ouvrez les guillemets
Character: Himself
Released: January 12, 2018
Type: TV
François Morency and three guests take a closer look at some words and expressions that have caught their attention for the right or wrong reasons. Comedy acts, funny interviews, hilarious sketches, juicy clips . . . whether they're playing with famous quotations, digging up treasures from social media or revisiting favourite lines from movies or Quebec TV, everything's fair game when it comes to celebrating the best and the worst in the spoken and written word.
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LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation
Title: LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation
Character: Arbitre
Released: December 18, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Hors-Jeu 2.0
Character: Self
Released: October 15, 2014
Type: TV
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When We Were Boys
Title: When We Were Boys
Character: François Taillefert
Released: December 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Christmas 1967, when hockey was played on outdoor rinks. The Boys form the parish's second team and are guaranteed participation in the Holiday Tournament as they are the hosts. Despite limited talent, they dream of victory. Off the ice, they will have to deal with all kinds of moments that one experiences at that age; some funny and some difficult. Together, however, they will face them. Together, they will try to grow, because this is how they have chosen to live: Together.
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Title: Le Tricheur
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 2012
Type: TV
This daily quiz show puts strategy front and centre, as five celebrities answer general-knowledge questions to win money for their favourite charity. But here’s the catch: one of the five participants is cheating, because they’re secretly being fed the answers. The cheater’s mission is to play it smart so they can fool the other players and win the game without getting caught.
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Lance et compte
Title: Lance et compte
Character: Jacques Mercier
Released: November 26, 2010
Type: Movie
After an hockey game in Lac St-Jean, the National climbs into their bus and begins the long ride from Roberval to Quebec City. On one of the sharp curves around Mount Apica, catastrophe strikes. The bus slams into the mountain and half the players dies. Now the team faces its greatest challenge: rebuilding.
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Title: Les Boys
Character: Jean-Charles
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: TV
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The Boys IV
Title: The Boys IV
Character: Jean-Charles
Released: December 9, 2005
Type: Movie
After four years of absence, the Boys are back on the ice! This time, the stake of the Canadian amateur tournament in which they participate is a game against the Legends of the National Hockey League.
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The Collector
Title: The Collector
Character: Robert Fecteau
Released: February 22, 2002
Type: Movie
The detective Maud Graham hides her sensibility behind the image of a strong and independant woman. She frequently offers her hospitality to a 16-year-old prostitute, Grégoire, a young man who became her friend. But when the teenager decides to invite a 12-year-old boy who is running away from home, Maud is near illegality. In addition, the detective has to deal with a serial killer who had already killed and mutilated many women. When she understands that the killer is very intelligent and organized, she elaborates a strategy to arrest him. There starts a dangerous game where the two teenagers that Graham is protecting will be implied. The killer is getting closer, revealing more and more of his madness.
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The Boys III
Title: The Boys III
Character: Jean-Charles
Released: November 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Three years have passed. The Boys are still a great hockey team in a garage league. Their coach Stan, in France for three years, returns from his trip to the delight of his troops. However, a wealthy businessman appears in the background and the players feel drawn to the lure of profit until the point where the Boys will face... the Boys.
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The Boys II
Title: The Boys II
Character: Jean-Charles
Released: December 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Our Boys are back a year after their last adventures. This time around, the players of Quebec's most popular garage league travel to Chamonix, France, to take part in an international amateur hockey tournament.
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Airspeed
Title: Airspeed
Character: Lee 'Bickster' Biquette
Released: August 18, 1998
Type: Movie
When wealthy executive Raymond Stone sends out his private plane to pick up his spoiled teenage daughter, Nicole, and a pair of his top-ranking employees, disaster strikes. While the jet flies through an electrical storm, the pilot and other passengers are incapacitated, and Nicole is left on her own to keep the plane in the air, guided by an air traffic controller. Can the irresponsible and panic-stricken teen find a way to land the jet?
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The Boys
Title: The Boys
Character: Jean-Charles
Released: December 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Every Monday evening, at the arena, eleven men get together to lovingly put on the jersey of the Boys, the hockey team of a "garage" league to which they belong. As Stan, their revered trainer, would affectionately say, they have the "puck" tattooed on their hearts. It doesn't matter if they are lawyers, policemen, mechanics or unemployed, as soon as they enter the locker room, everyone forgets their age, their work and their problems.
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Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Title: Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Character: Frank Coudaire
Released: September 17, 1993
Type: Movie
True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.
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Scanners II: The New Order
Title: Scanners II: The New Order
Character: Commander John Forrester
Released: May 3, 1991
Type: Movie
A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.
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Cold Front
Title: Cold Front
Character: Inspector Dechesne
Released: June 9, 1990
Type: Movie
An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.
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Title: Lance et Compte
Character: Jacques Mercier
Released: September 9, 1986
Type: TV
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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Blind Trust
Title: Blind Trust
Character: H.B.
Released: March 5, 1986
Type: Movie
A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape?
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Henri
Title: Henri
Character: Raoul Martineau
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A father is racked with guilt because he let his wife die in a boating accident, so that he could save his daughter. The girl is now in a hospital, recovering from the effect of losing her mother.
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Hold-up
Title: Hold-up
Character: Tremplin
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
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...
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Title: Poivre et sel
Character: Maurice Bissonnette
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: TV
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Slap Shot
Title: Slap Shot
Character: Jean-Guy Drouin
Released: February 25, 1977
Type: Movie
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.