Gabriel Gascon
Acting
Biography
Gabriel Gascon (8 January 1927 – 30 May 2018) was a Canadian stage and film actor. Born in Montreal, Quebec to parents Charles-Auguste Gascon and Marie-Rose Dubuc, Gascon began his acting career after joining the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent with the help of his elder brother Jean. Gascon established his career in France, where he met Andrée Lachapelle. He died on 30 May 2018, aged 91. He was also the brother of filmmaker Gilles Gascon. Source: Article "Gabriel Gascon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born: January 8, 1927
Place of Birth: Montreal, Canada
Known For
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
Nuremberg
Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
The Leatherstocking Tales
German miniseries based upon the novel, The Last of the Mohicans.
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from 1956 to 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the history of Canadian television, the series produced 81 episodes during its 14-year run and was one of the first influential téléromans. Written by Claude-Henri Grignon as an adaptation of his 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché and initially set in the 1880s, the series starred Jean-Pierre Masson as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, and Andrée Champagne as Donalda Laloge-Poudrier, the young daughter of a village resident who is given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she remains in love with her suitor Alexis Labranche.
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
The Tin Flute
In the early 1940's, Canada is a country at war and Florentine is a young woman, from a very poor family, looking for love. She meets two suitable men, a nice soldier from a good and wealthy family, and an ambitious self-centered engineer. She must decide whether she wants to follow her head or her heart...
The Marsh
Two social outcasts in 19th century Eastern Europe, Alexandre and Ulysse, become friends and settle down to live alone on the edge of a marsh that is reputedly haunted by demons, monsters and goblins. These two men have been outcasts all their lives. Alexandre was raised in a nomad family that traveled from town to town, being rejected by the people of his homeland. Due to his physical abnormalities, Ulysse has always been pushed aside ever since his childhood. When a strange murder is committed in a nearby village, the peasants turn their suspicions on Alexandre and Ulysse, because they are different. In the eyes of the villagers, they are demons that must be hunted, burned and killed.
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi collaborator and is imprisoned in the fortress of Sisteron.
Possible Worlds
The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.
Filmography
as Arlequin
as Rabbi Levy
as M. Vendôme
as Le vieux
as Grand Chêne (voice)
as Pépé
as Bernard
as Martin
as Kleber / Doctor
as Großadmiral Erich Raeder
as Le président
as Marshal Vega
as Reger 1
as Crépuscule (Segment "Aurore et Crépuscule")
as Pere Philbert
as Georges Attends
as Captain Monbars
as Monsieur Simon
as Lautier
as Curé
as Narrator
as Pannequin
as Captain Alexandre Poul
as Dr. Battius
as Barthélémy
as Paul (uncredited)
as Lindas Vater
as The Director of the Insurance Company
as Le truand #1
as Alexis Labranche
as Janedo