Paul Gury

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Paul Gury (actually Louis-Marie "Loïc" Le Gouriadec ; born May 11, 1888 in Vannes , † November 13, 1974 in Montreal ) was a Canadian actor and director of French origin.

Life

Gury came to Montréal in 1907 , where Paul Cazeneuve hired him as an actor at the Théâtre National . From 1918 until his replacement by Rose Ouellette , he headed the theater, for which he wrote plays himself, e.g. B. Le mortel baiser . Between 1936 and 1938 he moved between France and Canada as a film and theater actor and worked as a radio play writer.

During the Second World War he worked with Claude-Henri Grignon on the film adaptation of Paul L'Anglais' novel Un homme et son péché . The film premiered in 1949 with great success. The films Le curé de village and Séraphin were made at the same time . With his wife Yvette Brind'Amour he founded the Théâtre du Rideau Vert in 1950 , which was particularly dedicated to the performance of plays by authors from the Quebec region .

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