Marcel Sabourin

Born: 1935-03-25

Marcel Sabourin (born March 25, 1935) is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Abel Gagné, the central character in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's trilogy of Don't Let It Kill You (Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça), The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) and Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais) and his performance as Professor Mandibule in the children's television series Les Croquignoles and La ribouldingue.


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The Sum of All Fears

as Monsieur Monceau
Released: 2002-05-31

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds...

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The Hitman

as Andre Lacombe
Released: 1991-05-01

After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris)...

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Lilies

as The Bishop
Released: 1996-09-07

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a prison to hear the confession of Simon, a boyhood friend jailed...

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Jesus of Montreal

as Eccentric
Released: 1989-05-15

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a...

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Testament

as Monsieur Sylvestre
Released: 2023-10-05

In an era of political correctness, identity evolution, protests, cultural scandals, activism,...

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Gina

as Actor
Released: 1975-01-23

Gina is a stripper at a popular local club. Everybody loves her and wants her. One night, a...

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Two Women In Gold

as Yvon-T. Turcot
Released: 1970-05-21

Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands...

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Victoire

as Jo Milo
Released: 2023-03-17

VICTOIRE traces the story of Victoire Du Sault, founder of the shoemaking industry at the origin...

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The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died

as Abel
Released: 1977-08-08

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning...

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J.A. Martin Photographer

as J. A. Martin
Released: 1977-05-26

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian...

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Taureau

as Serge Beaudoin
Released: 1973-02-01

A family that does not conform to the social norms of a small village must suffer the...

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The Sticky Side of Baklava

as Guy
Released: 2021-09-03

The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil...

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Mars and April

as Capucin
Released: 2012-10-05

In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician,...

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Dirty Money

as Ernest
Released: 1972-06-15

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.

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Truffle

as Monsieur Turcotte
Released: 2008-08-22

Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world...

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White Skin

as Dr. Paul-Émile Gagnon
Released: 2004-09-17

Two roommates discover that the family of one of their girlfriends is populated with vampires.

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Memories Unlocked

as Docteur Patenaude
Released: 1999-03-24

In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend...

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Shooting Star

as Séverin
Released: 2005-06-15

Four young women are participating on Idole Instantanée, a reality show produced by Omni Global,...

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The Death of a Lumberjack

as Ti-Noir L'Esperance
Released: 1973-01-25

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father...

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Niagara

as Léopold Lamothe
Released: 2022-09-16

A comedy drama about the fall, mourning and rebuilding of oneself around three brothers in their...

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Ego Trip

as Daniel Valiquette
Released: 2015-07-08

Talk show host Marc Morin is at a crossroads in his career and in his personal life. The ratings...

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The Christmas Martian

as The Visitor
Released: 1971-12-01

A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives...

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Now or Never

as Abel Gagné
Released: 1998-09-16

A pilot who has not flown in years due to an accident has to deal with unexpected visitors and...

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L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)

as Le religieux (uncredited)
Released: 1973-08-17

Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try...

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The Time of the Hunt

as Richard
Released: 1972-10-06

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a...

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My Aunt Aline

as Claude Longevin
Released: 2007-07-20

Geneviève Saint-Louis, a bachelor and neurotic careerist, refuses any form of engagement. Her...

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Bingo

as Pierre Lemoyne
Released: 1974-03-14

A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an...

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Roméo et Juliette

as Monsieur Leclerc
Released: 2006-12-15

Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the...

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Lessons on Life

as Bertrand
Released: 1989-08-24

A day in the life of a Quebec magazine writer - his fortieth birthday - from his dream before...

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Julie and Me

as Monsieur Provencher
Released: 1998-10-30

Two friends meet after 15 years. They have a complicated and intimate past that becomes...

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The Revolving Doors

as Homme du train
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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Wind from Wyoming

as Father Lachaise
Released: 1994-05-26

Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns...

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Amsterdam

as uncredited
Released: 2013-10-11

Three friends go on a fishing trip. Well ... that's what everyone believes.

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Broken Face

as Morlaix (voice)
Released: 2014-10-03

Loik, a disfigured sailor, is posted to a remote lighthouse with Morlaix, a tyrannical head...

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The Last Betrothal

as Le docteur
Released: 1973-09-28

After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long left to live. But after more...

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Cordélia

as Sheriff Lapointe
Released: 1980-02-07

In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking'...

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At the End of Nothing at All

as Self
Released: 2024-03-02

Every morning, Marcel confides in his tape recorder. It is from his reflections on life that...

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Henri Henri

as Monsieur Binot
Released: 2014-11-07

Henri was raised by religious in a convent and lived with them until the women, now elders,...

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Preludes

as uncredited
Released: 2000-11-15

Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in...

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Those Damned Savages

as Steward Jean Talon
Released: 1971-03-20

A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's...

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Trial at Fortitude Bay

as Judge Jean Lamberts
Released: 1994-01-01

Defence attorney Gina Antonelli is sent to an Arctic village to defend 19 year-old Pauloosie,...

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Mission of Fear

as uncredited
Released: 1965-05-20

A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the...

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Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…

as Ti-Mine
Released: 1976-01-13

A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They...

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Magique

as Dr. Klebs
Released: 2008-10-22

Tommy, a little boy who lives alone with his mother, sees a circus set up near his home. He sets...

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Charlebois à Ducharme

as Self
Released: 2021-09-03

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YUL

as uncredited
Released: 2018-01-01

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Another House

as Henri
Released: 2013-10-18

Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three...

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Eliza's Horoscope

as Pervert Doctor
Released: 1975-01-01

A young woman arrives to Montreal to find love. A fortune teller tells her that a wealthy man...

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Don't Let It Kill You

as uncredited
Released: 1967-08-11

A 30-year old man is forced out of his inert and absent-minded existence when it's complicated...

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F*ckin' Coffin!

as Father
Released: 2021-10-07

May 20, 1980. After his father's passing, Raymond Tremblay, tax investigator, begins to suspect...

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Un après-midi avec Paolo

as uncredited
Released: 2014-08-02

Ben comes to volunteer for the first time at Paolo's retirement home, but something strange is...

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Clouds over the City

as Maurice
Released: 2009-10-08

Jean-Paul is a public servant, tired of toiling at his soul-destroying job. As a writer, he...

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Sweet Lies and Tender Oaths

as Clovis Lavallée
Released: 1982-09-12

An eccentric old grandmother decides to leave her nagging daughter's house to live on her own....

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L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho!

as Himself
Released: 2023-08-24

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Mathieu

as uncredited
Released: 2016-06-06

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Sigismond Imageless

as Dr. Thévenin
Released: 2016-08-28

Sigismond Langlois is submitted to a psychiatric evaluation on account of his violent behavior....

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S As in...

as uncredited
Released: 1984-03-26

One day Jean-Baptiste Beauregard (Pierre Curzi) does not go out to face work or daily...

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La fête des rois

as uncredited
Released: 1994-01-01

Benjamin, a 10 year-old boy, lives with his mother Charlotte since his dad, Christophe, left....

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Ne dis rien

as uncredited
Released: 2001-03-30

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I, Barnabé

as Barnabé (voice)
Released: 2020-06-14

I, Barnabé takes a luminous look at a desperate man’s existential crisis. During a night of...

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Smaragdin

as Narrator
Released: 1960-06-01

Smaragdin was selected at the Annecy Festival in 1960 and constitutes an astonishing...

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The House of Light

as uncredited
Released: 1969-03-21

This plodding piece of cinematic ambiguity finds a married couple engaged in boring conversation...

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Beaupré the Giant

as Gérard Picard
Released: 2024-05-08

Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8 ft. 3 in. Died too young and far from home in 1904,...

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Far from the Sun

as Robert Bessette
Released: 1971-12-24

The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of...

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Dying Alive

as Luc
Released: 2021-12-17

Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many...

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Les « troubbes » de Johnny

as Le voisin
Released: 1974-01-01

A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife...

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The Horse Trader’s Daughter

as uncredited
Released: 1990-09-27

An Irishman falls in love in turn-of-the-century Quebec (in Canada).

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Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau

as Papineau
Released: 1995-05-22

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's...

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Des armes et les hommes

as uncredited
Released: 1973-01-01

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The Wise Guys

as uncredited
Released: 1972-03-20

In this French Canadian film, when the provincial government tries to move two young farmers...

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LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation

as uncredited
Released: 2017-12-18

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L'oreille d'un sourd

as uncredited
Released: 1996-05-28

A philandering wife and a sleazy womanizing con-man team up to off a troublesome father-in-law...

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The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan

as uncredited
Released: 1965-08-01

An atmospheric mood piece photographed in the winter at the giant dam built by Hydro Quebec in...

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See You in Toronto

as uncredited
Released: 2000-09-07

Jean Pierre Lefebvre’s short comments on history and film’s role in it.

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Bonsoir bonsoir!

as Self
First aired: 2019-04-01

Each day, Jean-Philippe Wauthier welcomes guests on the show in warm, friendly setting. His...

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Les Enfants de la télé

as Self
First aired: 2010-09-15

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Les Appendices

as Self
First aired: 2009-01-06

A frenzied series of wacky sketches, surprising and unexpected.

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The Wall

as Frère Gabriel
First aired: 2019-12-12

Fermont: A remote mining colony in the endless frozen hell that is Canada's far North. The body...

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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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Avec un grand A

as François
First aired: 1986-02-19

L'Amour avec un Grand A is a French-Canadian television series which aired from 1988 to 1995....

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Freefall

as Maurice Legault
First aired: 2017-01-09

Everyone can have a bad day now and then, but we meet Valerie on a morning that divides her life...

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Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making

as Maurice Duplessis
First aired: 2005-10-23

This three-hour prequel to the 2002 miniseries, "Trudeau", chronicles the coming of age of...

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Dans un cinéma près de chez vous

as Self
First aired: 2024-01-14

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Berlin Lady

as Marquis d'Abrantes
First aired: 1991-01-01

Boro's adventure begins in Paris in the late twenties. As a minor employee in a photographic...

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