Gabriel Arcand
Birthday: 1949-06-04
Place of Birth: Deschambault, Québec, Canada
Biography: 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.
Movies
Agnes of God
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice...
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The Plouffe Family
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and throu...
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The Decline of the American Empire
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a din...
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A Wonderful Spell
Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into e...
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Post Mortem
A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique...
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Karakara
Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okin...
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The Auction
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he ...
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The Revolving Doors
A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother...
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La ligne de chaleur
In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father has...
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Réjeanne Padovani
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wrec...
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Unfaithful Mornings
Jean-Pierre, a young photograph, takes a photo of the same street corner every morning for an entire...
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The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unha...
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The Secret Life of Happy People
A struggling architecture student falls for a free-spirited waitress who has a hidden agenda....
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Gina
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel r...
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The Big Snake of the World
Tom Paradise, a young 40-something refusing to grow up, drives his bus endlessly through the city dr...
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Bye, See You Monday
Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single a...
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Résonance
An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease that t...
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The Machine Age
A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from he...
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Thunder Drum
Three memories juxtaposed: that of an Innu, that of a Jesuit and that of the director. In this featu...
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A Kid
Matthieu is a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides ...
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The Coffin Affair
In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on t...
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Dirty Money
A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry....
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Suzanne
An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but...
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Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the ...
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Tu brûles... tu brûles...
A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of th...
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Congorama
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese...
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Panique
Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the sta...
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Parlez-nous d'amour
A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from v...
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La fabrication d'un meurtrier
A psychiatrist tells his story to a police detective investigating a murder. He went to Bulgaria in ...
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Nelligan
This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Can...
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Pour l'amour de Thomas
A young HIV-positive man returns to his birthplace in Québec and tries to live life as fully as poss...
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Les vautours
Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as some...
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She Who Wears the Rain
Immersed in a world halfway between reality and a dream, Agnes will have to confront her mourning....
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Chaos and Desire
Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice ...
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Maria Chapdelaine
In 1910, Maria Chapdelaine, a young girl of seventeen, lived with her family on the banks of the Pér...
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The Bossé Empire
It follows the career of a man who starts from scratch and became one of the richest men in the worl...
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A House with a View of the Sea
In the foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his son shelter their quiet relati...
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Blood of the Hunter
In this period thriller set near the turn of the century, Jan Thoreau is a Canadian trapper who live...
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Easy in Mind
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing seve...
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