Jean-Claude Lord Biography
Jean-Claude Lord (6 June 1943 – 15 January 2022) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was one of the most commercial of the Québécois directors in the 1970s, aiming his feature films at a m* audience and dealing with political themes in a mainstream, Hollywood style.
Early life
Lord was born in Montreal on 6 June 1943. He first worked as an *istant director and scriptwriter in the private sector. He was an apprentice to Pierre Patry at the company Coopératio.
Career
Lord's first feature was Délivrez-nous du mal, released in 1965. 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. 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.
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. Four years later, Lord worked for the first time in television on the series Lance et Compte. It centred around a fic*ious 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. He won a Prix Gémeaux in 1987 for the series.
Lord subsequently worked primarily in television on several other series and made-for-TV movies. He directed the revival of Lance et Compte that aired from 2000 until 2008. He was conferred the Prix Guy-Mauffette by the National *embly of Quebec in November 2017, in recognition of the contributions he made to the audiovisual industry and culture.
Personal life
Lord was in a domestic partnership with Lise Thouin until his death. Together, they had two children: Marie-Noëlle and Jean-Sébastien, who is also a film and television director, most noted for the films Heaven (Le pe* ciel) and Guardian Angel (L'Ange-gardien).
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.
Filmography
Features
- Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal) – 1969
- The Doves (Les Colombes) – 1972
- Bingo – 1974
- Let's Talk About Love (Parlez-nous d'amour) – 1976
- Panic (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 **inée) – 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
External links
- Jean-Claude Lord at IMDb
