Yvan Ponton
Acting
Biography
Yvan Ponton is a Canadian actor, commentator and television host. Ponton has had a lengthy acting career which includes roles in a variety of major French-Canadian television shows and movies. He is most well known to English-speaking audiences for his role as Drouin in the 1977 film Slap Shot.
Born: October 22, 1945
Place of Birth: Farnham, Québec, Canada
Known For
Chasing the Frozen Dream
A LA POURSUITE DU REVE GLACÉ follows a band of well-known comedians as they try, for the first (and probably the last) time, to fulfil their childhood dream of winning a semi-professional ice hockey tournament
Les Boys
Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
Slap Shot
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
The Boys III
Three years have passed. The Boys are still a great hockey team in a garage league. Their coach Stan, in France for three years, returns from his trip to the delight of his troops. However, a wealthy businessman appears in the background and the players feel drawn to the lure of profit until the point where the Boys will face... the Boys.
Les Enfants de la télé
The Boys IV
After four years of absence, the Boys are back on the ice! This time, the stake of the Canadian amateur tournament in which they participate is a game against the Legends of the National Hockey League.
Hold-up
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
The Boys II
Our Boys are back a year after their last adventures. This time around, the players of Quebec's most popular garage league travel to Chamonix, France, to take part in an international amateur hockey tournament.
Poivre et sel
Filmography
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Arbitre
as François Taillefert
as Self
as Jacques Mercier
as Self - Guest
as Jean-Charles
as Jean-Charles
as Robert Fecteau
as Jean-Charles
as Inspector Cormier
as Jean-Charles
as Lee 'Bickster' Biquette
as Jean-Charles
as Frank Coudaire
as Commander John Forrester
as Inspector Dechesne
as Jacques Mercier
as H.B.
as Raoul Martineau
as Tremplin
as Maurice Bissonnette
as Jean-Guy Drouin