Jean-Claude Lord
| Jean-Claude Lord | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 6, 1943 Montreal, Canada |
| Occupation |
Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1964 - Present |
Jean-Claude Lord (born June 6, 1943, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1] He was one of the most commercial of the Québécois directors in the 1970s and aimed his feature films at a mass audience and dealt with political themes in a mainstream, Hollywood style.
Biography
Jean-Claude Lord 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] He made his first English-language film in 1982, Visiting Hours, a low-budget horror film that still remains a cult favorite. In 1986 Lord worked for the first time in Television on the series Lance et Compte, a series in 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]
Filmography
Features
- Délivrez-nous du mal (1965)
- Les colombes (1972)
- Bingo (1974)
- Parlez-nous d'amour (1976)
- Panique (1977)
- Éclair au chocolat (1979)
- Visiting Hours (1982)
- Covergirl (1984)
- The Vindicator (1986)
- Toby McTeague (1986)
- La Grenouille et la baleine (1988)
- Mindfield (aka La mémoire assassinée, 1989)
- Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989)
- Landslide (1992)
- 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)