Paul Dupuis

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Paul Dupuis (born August 11, 1916 in Montreal , † January 31, 1976 in Saint-Sauveur / Québec ) was a Canadian actor.

Dupius attended the Collège de l'Assomption from 1933-34 . He then went to the Collège St. Laurent , where he became a member of Émile Legault's amateur drama group Les Compagnons de St. Laurent . After completing his training, he worked for a short time as a cartoonist for a newspaper, then as a speaker and program director at Radio Canada . In 1937 he became an employee of the CBC , which sent him to London as a war correspondent. His report Mort du Soldat Bourdage au Front became famous in 1945 .

He had his first film appearance in 1943 in the spy film Yellow Canary , his first important role in 1945 in Charles Frends film Johnny Frenchman alongside Patricia Roc , Paul Walls and Françoise Rosay . The film premiered successfully at the Imperial Theater in Montreal in early 1946 . By 1951 he starred in fifteen films in England, including The White Unicorn , Passport to Pimlico , Madness of the Heart , The Reluctant Widow and Sleeping Car to Trieste (with Derrick De Marney and Jean Kent ). The films L'Inconnue de Montréal , Les Pépés font la loi and Passion de femmes were made in France .

His first film made in Canada was La Forteresse (1946) with Nicole Germain , Jacques Auger and Henri Letondal . On television he has appeared in Etienne Brûlé , Gibier de Potence , Ti-Coq and Les Belles Histoires des Pays d'en Haut, among others. As a theater actor he appeared as Frère Dominique in Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher in 1952–53 directed by Jan Doat and under the musical direction of Wilfrid Pelletier and in 1953 in Ten Little Indians with the Canadian Players .

In the 1960s, Dupuis presented the women's magazine Voix de Femmes on television with Françoise Gaudet-Smet and Thérèse Casgrain . On the radio, he spoke the role of Julien Bédard in Jeunesse Doré , was the narrator in Madeleine Gérômes Une demie heure avec ... and speaker in André Morin's show Au Pays du Long Sommeil .

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SURNAME Dupuis, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1976
Place of death Saint-Sauveur , Quebec