Gabriel Arcand

Born: 1949-06-04

Gabriel Arcand (born June 4, 1949) is a French Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand. He won the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's award for Best Actor at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for his performance in Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe and at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Le Démantèlement, and the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for Decline of the American Empire. He was also nominated for Best Actor at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for Les Plouffe and at the 20th Genie Awards for Post Mortem, and for Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981 for Suzanne and at the 20th Genie Awards in 1999 for Le Grand serpent du monde.


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The Decline of the American Empire

as Mario
Released: 1986-06-19

Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a...

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Agnes of God

as Monsignor
Released: 1985-09-13

When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young...

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Maria Chapdelaine

as Le docteur
Released: 2021-09-24

In 1910, Maria Chapdelaine, a young girl of seventeen, lived with her family on the banks of the...

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A Kid

as Pierre Lesage
Released: 2016-08-31

Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and...

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Chaos and Desire

as L'éditeur
Released: 2002-08-22

Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist...

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Congorama

as Priest
Released: 2006-05-25

Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a...

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The Auction

as Gaby Gagnon
Released: 2013-11-05

Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather,...

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Gina

as Director
Released: 1975-01-23

A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her...

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Réjeanne Padovani

as Carlo Ferrara
Released: 1973-01-01

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to...

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The Plouffe Family

as Ovide Plouffe
Released: 1981-04-07

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and...

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La fabrication d'un meurtrier

as uncredited
Released: 1996-03-03

A psychiatrist tells his story to a police detective investigating a murder. He went to Bulgaria...

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Blood of the Hunter

as Yan Thoreau
Released: 1995-07-25

In this period thriller set near the turn of the century, Jan Thoreau is a Canadian trapper who...

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Karakara

as Pierre
Released: 2012-08-31

Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around...

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The Revolving Doors

as Madrigale Blaudelle
Released: 1988-05-26

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his...

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The Bossé Empire

as Antoine de Carufel
Released: 2012-03-16

It follows the career of a man who starts from scratch and became one of the richest men in the...

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Parlez-nous d'amour

as uncredited
Released: 1976-09-23

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to...

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Nelligan

as Père Seers
Released: 1991-09-27

This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major...

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A Wonderful Spell

as Moïse
Released: 2004-07-07

Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown...

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A House with a View of the Sea

as Fotografo
Released: 2001-08-28

In the foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his son shelter their quiet...

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Bye, See You Monday

as Georges, the bartender
Released: 1979-08-21

Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six,...

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Dirty Money

as Ti-bi
Released: 1972-06-15

After a raucous visit from the wealthy Uncle Arthur , working class Montreal couple Roland and...

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Pour l'amour de Thomas

as Claude
Released: 1995-02-24

A young HIV-positive man returns to his birthplace in Québec and tries to live life as fully as...

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Suzanne

as Georges Laflamme
Released: 1981-09-18

An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby,...

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Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie

as Bum
Released: 1976-10-08

In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to...

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La vie secrète des gens heureux

as Professeur d'architecture
Released: 2006-09-08

Élevé par des parents parfaits dans une banlieue proprette, frère cadet d'une fille à qui tout...

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She Who Wears the Rain

as uncredited
Released: 2019-10-14

Immersed in a world halfway between reality and a dream, Agnes will have to confront her mourning.

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Résonance

as uncredited
Released: 2021-10-10

An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease...

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The Coffin Affair

as Alain Courtemanche
Released: 1980-09-10

In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions...

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Post Mortem

as Ghislain O'Brien
Released: 1999-03-28

A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a...

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The Crime of Ovide Plouffe

as Ovide Plouffe
Released: 1984-08-29

Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage....

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Les vautours

as uncredited
Released: 1975-03-20

Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as...

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Panique

as uncredited
Released: 1977-09-16

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the...

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Tu brûles... tu brûles...

as Gabriel
Released: 1973-04-12

A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom...

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La ligne de chaleur

as Robert Filion 1
Released: 1987-05-26

In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father...

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Unfaithful Mornings

as L'homme au bonsaï
Released: 1988-01-01

Jean-Pierre, a young photograph, takes a photo of the same street corner every morning for an...

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Easy in Mind

as Théo
Released: 1989-07-05

A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing...

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Thunder Drum

as Paul Lejeune
Released: 1983-01-01

Three memories juxtaposed: that of an Innu, that of a Jesuit and that of the director. In this...

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Viens voir les comédiens

as Self
First aired: 2002-09-20

Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture...

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The Killer Inside

as Jean-Marc Beauchemin
First aired: 2014-03-13

Psychological crime series following the investigations of interrogation experts Julie...

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Au secours de Béatrice

as Monsieur P
First aired: 2014-09-10

Béatrice Clément is a 48-year-old emergency room doctor. She is pretty, charming and at the top...

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P.A.M. - Programme d'aspirant-moniteur

as Professeur
First aired: 2023-05-01

The day after their first night in the forest, a small group of aspiring instructors wake up to...

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