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Jean-Claude Lord (6 June 1943 – 15 January 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.

Jean-Claude Lord
Born	(1943-06-06)6 June 1943 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	15 January 2022(2022-01-15) (aged 78) Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	film director screenwriter
Years active	1964–2022

Early life

Lord was born in Montreal on 6 June 1943.[2][3] He first worked as an assistant director and scriptwriter in the private sector.[3] He was an apprentice to Pierre Patry at the company Coopératio.[4]

Career

Lord's first feature was Délivrez-nous du mal, released in 1965.[3] It depicted a gay couple, reportedly a first for a Québécois film and regarded as a breakthrough since the influence of the Catholic Church was still strong in Quebec.[5] 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.[6]

Lord directed his first English-language film, Visiting Hours, in 1982. The low-budget horror movie, which featured William Shatner and Michael Ironside, became a cult favourite.[7] Four years later, Lord worked for the first time in television on the series Lance et Compte. It centred around a fictitious ice hockey team, whose uniforms were similar to the Quebec Nordiques, contending for the Stanley Cup and the World Cup of Hockey. The series – which ran from 1986 to 1989 – was credited with establishing a new benchmark for television shows in Quebec. It also aired in English on CBC as He Shoots, He Scores, and was shown in France in 1987.[8] He won a Prix Gémeaux in 1987 for the series.[5]

Lord subsequently worked primarily in television on several other series and made-for-TV movies.[3][9][10] He directed the revival of Lance et Compte that aired from 2000 until 2008.[11] He was conferred the Prix Guy-Mauffette by the National Assembly of Quebec in November 2017,[11] in recognition of the contributions he made to the audiovisual industry and culture.[7][8]

Personal life

Lord was in a domestic partnership with Lise Thouin until his death.[5] Together, they had two children: Marie-Noëlle and Jean-Sébastien,[5] who is also a film and television director, most noted for the films Heaven (Le petit ciel) and Guardian Angel (L'Ange-gardien).[12]

Lord died on the evening of 15 January 2022. He was 78, and had suffered a major stroke on 30 December of the previous year.[5][7][13]

Filmography

Features

• Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal) – 1969[9]
• The Doves (Les colombes) – 1972[9][10]
• Bingo – 1974[9][10]
• Let's Talk About Love (Parlez-nous d'amour) – 1976[9][10]
• Panique – 1977[10][14]
• Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat) – 1979[9][10]
• Visiting Hours – 1982[9][10]
• Covergirl – 1984[9][10]
• The Vindicator – 1986[9][10]
• Toby McTeague – 1986[9][10]
• The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine) – 1988[9][10]
• Mindfield (La mémoire assassinée) – 1989[9][10]
• Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! – 1989[9][10]
• Landslide [fr] – 1992[9][10]
• North Station (Station Nord) – 2002[9][10]

Television

• Lance et Compte (TV series, 1986) {aka He Shoots, He Scores (English) and Cogne et Gagne (France)}[14][11]
• Urban Angel (TV series, 1991)[15]
• Sirens (TV series, 1994–1995)[11]
• Jasmine (TV series, 1996)[11][16]
• Lobby (TV series, 1997)[14]
• Diva (TV series, 1997)[11][17]
• Maurice Richard: Histoire d'un Canadien (TV miniseries Co-Directed with Pauline Payette, 1999)[18]
• Quadra (TV series, 2000)[11][19]
• L'or (TV series, 2001)[11][20]
• Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension (TV series, 2002)[11][21]
• Lance et Compte: La nouvelle génération (TV series, 2002)[22]
• Lance et Compte: La reconquete (TV series, 2004)[23]
• Lance et Compte: La revanche (TV series, 2006)[24]
• Lance et Compte: Le grand duel (TV series, 2009)[25]
• Secrets of the Summer House (TV movie, 2008)[9][10]
• Out of Control (TV movie, 2009)[9][10]
• Ring of Deceit (TV movie, 2009)[9][10]
• Second Chances (TV movie, 2010)[9][10]

References

External links

• Jean-Claude Lord at IMDb

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