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) 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 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] 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)
- Chocolate Eclair (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)