Gaétan Labrèche
Acting
Biography
Gaétan Labrèche (January 15, 1931 - November 25, 1990) was a Québec actor/director who was an undisputed master of comedy, and popular with audiences of both stage and television. He was also the father of actor Marc Labrèche and the grandfather of actress Léane Labrèche-Dor.
Born: January 15, 1931
Place of Birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Known For
Those Damned Savages
A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.
Amanita Pestilens
A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.
Don't Let It Kill You
A 30-year old man is forced out of his inert and absent-minded existence when it's complicated by the three women in his life.
Straight to the Heart
An unemployed man with individualist and pacifist values is inevitably brainwashed by society and the mass media to conform to the dominant ideology and embrace war. His soul is destroyed but his heart cannot be conquered.
Rope Around the Neck
A misfit desperately looking for the murderer who has just killed his wife.
Valérie
Valerie leaves behind her life at a convent for the wild side of life. Getting a job as a topless dancer, Valerie quickly graduates to becoming a high-class hooker. After amassing a small fortune, she falls in love with an artist, a man who is more-than-willing to overlook Valerie's sordid past.
A Question of Loving
A drama of manners, spiced by light moments, describing the "love stories" of a mother and her daughter. The two women spend a summer together. Madeline, the mother, a professional, independent woman, begins a romantic relationship with an engineer after ending a previous relation. For her part, Renée, her 20-year old daughter, tries to see her father again and dreams of stable love.
The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds
While on his honeymoon, a man who suddenly becomes impotent, tries to recover his virility.
La fleur aux dents
Fanfreluche: Alice in Wonderland
After reading Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', living doll Fanfreluche enters the extraordinary realm of Wonderland to embark on her own adventure.
Filmography
as Me Mayer
as Lebon
as Le tribunal
as Historian
as Un client de Valérie
as Le lapin blanc
as Young man (uncredited)
as Aristide Cassoulet