Albert Millaire

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Albert Millaire (2017)

Rodolphe Albert Millaire , CC , CQ (born January 18, 1935 in Montreal , Québec ; † August 15, 2018 there ) was a Canadian actor and theater director .

Life

Millaire was born in Montreal. His father died before his first birthday. His desire to be an actor arose after seeing Laurence Olivier in the 1948 film Hamlet .

Millaire attended the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal and then appeared in Alfred de Mussets Lorenzaccio , Molières Tartuffe and Dom Juan , Shakespeare's Hamlet , and Roch Carriers La céleste bicyclette in Quebec.

Millaire worked at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and was seen as a director and actor at the English-language Stratford Festival of Canada . On television, he portrayed historical figures such as Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville , Wilfrid Laurier and Louis Riel . Although he acted primarily in French, he was occasionally in English-language productions such as Adventures in Rainbow Land , The Long Road of Luke B. and The Girl seen from the city .

He was chairman of the Académie québécoise de théâtre and the Canadian Council on the Status of the Artist .

Millaire was married twice; first with Rita Imbault and later with the television director Michèle Marchand. He died of cancer on August 15, 2018 in Montreal at the age of 83.

Filmography

  • 1958: Le Maître du Pérou
  • 1959: L'Héritage
  • 1965: Astataïon ou Le festin des morts
  • 1965: Pas de vacances pour les idoles
  • 1965: La Vie heureuse de Léopold Z.
  • 1966: Le Misanthrope
  • 1967: La télévision est là
  • 1972: L'Exil
  • 1975: Mustang
  • 1987: Alfred Laliberté: Sculpteur
  • 1988: À corps perdu
  • 1992: La Fenêtre
  • 1994: Célimène and the Cardinal (Célimène et le Cardinal)
  • 1997: J'en suis!
  • 2000: On n'est pas là pour s'aimer (TV film)
  • 2003: Sur le seuil
  • 2005: Aurore
  • 2010: L'Enfant prodige

Awards and honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Albert Millaire" . The Canadian Encyclopedia , April 24, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f "Versatile actor Albert Millaire delighted audiences in both official languages" . The Globe and Mail , August 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ Quebec actor Albert Millaire dies at 83 . 15th August 2018.
  4. ^ Website of the Ordre national du Québec
  5. ↑ Albert Millaire biography . Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation. Retrieved February 10, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Millaire, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Millaire, Rudolphe Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 2018
Place of death Montreal