Jean-Claude Lord
| Jean-Claude Lord | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 6, 1943 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | January 15 2022 |
| Occupation | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1964 - Present |
Jean-Claude Lord (June 6, 1943 - January 15, 2022) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1] He was one of the most commercial of the Québécois directors in the 1970s, aiming his feature films at a mass audience and dealing with political themes in a mainstream, Hollywood style.
Life and career
Lord was born in Montreal, Quebec, and began his career as an apprentice to Pierre Patry at Coopératio, working as an assistant director on many films before directing his first feature, Délivrez-nous du mal, in 1965. His 1974 film Bingo exploits the post-October Crisis, post-Watergate paranoia prevalent in North America at the time with considerable panache. It was the subject of an intensive critical debate about its credentials as a left-wing film.[2] In 1982, he directed his first English-language film, Visiting Hours, a low-budget horror movie that remains a cult favorite. In 1986, Lord worked for the first time in television on the series Lance et Compte, a series which he would revisit several times years later. Since then he has worked primarily in television on several other series and Made-for-TV movies.[3]
He had a son, Jean-Sébastien Lord, and a daughter, Marie-Noelle Lord.
His son Jean-Sébastien Lord is also a film and television director, most noted for the films Heaven (Le petit ciel) and Guardian Angel (L'Ange-gardien).[4]
Filmography
Features
- Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal) - 1969
- Les colombes - 1972
- Bingo - 1974
- Let's Talk About Love (Parlez-nous d'amour) - 1976
- Panique - 1977
- Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat) - 1979
- Visiting Hours - 1982
- Covergirl - 1984
- The Vindicator - 1986
- Toby McTeague - 1986
- The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine) - 1988
- Mindfield (La mémoire assassinée) - 1989
- Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! - 1989
- Landslide - 1992
- North Station (Station Nord) - 2002
Television
- Lance et Compte (TV series, 1986) {aka He Shoots, He Scores (English) and Cogne et Gagne (France)}
- Urban Angel (TV series, 1991)
- Sirens (TV series, 1994-1995)
- Jasmine (TV series, 1996)
- Lobby (TV series, 1997)
- Diva (TV series, 1997)
- Maurice Richard: Histoire d'un Canadien (TV miniseries Co-Directed with Pauline Payette, 1999)
- Quadra (TV series, 2000)
- L'or (TV series, 2001)
- Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension (TV series, 2002)
- Lance et Compte: La nouvelle génération (TV series, 2002)
- Lance et Compte: La reconquete (TV series, 2004)
- Lance et Compte: La revanche (TV series, 2006)
- Lance et Compte: Le grand duel (TV series, 2009)
- Secrets of the Summer House (TV movie, 2008)
- Out of Control (TV movie, 2009)
- Ring of Deceit (TV movie, 2009)
- Second Chances (TV movie, 2010)
References
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- ↑ Genevieve Royer, "Director's debut aims for the sky: Le Petit Ciel is a take on life and death". Montreal Gazette, March 17, 2000.
