René Delacroix

René Delacroix (August 27, 1900 – June 11, 1976) was a French film director and screenwriter.[1] He was most noted for a mid-career period from 1949 to 1954 when he was based in Montreal, during which he directed or co-directed several of the most important early feature films in the Cinema of Quebec.[2] The film Tit-Coq, codirected with Gratien Gélinas, won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year at the 5th Canadian Film Awards in 1953.[3]

Filmography

• La relève - 1932
• Meute et kangourous... - 1935
• Promesses - 1939
• Notre-Dame de la Mouise - 1941, writer only
• The Murderer Is Not Guilty (L'assassin n'est pas coupable) - 1946
• Gonzague - 1947
• The Grand Bill (Le Gros Bill) - 1949, with Jean-Yves Bigras
• The Story of Dr. Louise (On ne triche pas la vie) - 1949, with Paul Vandenberghe
• They Are Twenty - 1950
• The Nightingale and the Bells (Le Rossignol et les cloches) - 1952
• Tit-Coq - 1953, with Gratien Gélinas
• A Mother's Heart - 1953
• The Heartthrob (Le Tombeur) - 1958

References

1. "Fine Canadian Film: St. Hyacinthe Main Setting For an Entertaining Story". Montreal Star, March 3, 1952.
2. Michel Houle et Alain Julien, Dictionnaire du cinéma québécois, Fides, 1978.
3. "On the Screen". The Globe and Mail, May 1, 1953.

External links

• René Delacroix at IMDb