
Paul Dupuis
Actor · 1913 – 1976 · Montréal, Québec, Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Dupuis (August 11, 1913 – January 23, 1976) was a French Canadian film actor who was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and performed in British films during the late 1940s. The roles he played were mainly as the romantic leading man. He died in Saint-Sauveur in Quebec. His films include Johnny Frenchman (1945), The White Unicorn (1947), La Forteresse (1947), Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948), Passport to Pimlico (1949), The Romantic Age (1949), The Reluctant Widow (1950), and Ti Coq (1953). He was also seen in the popular Quebec television series Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Dupuis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies17
Movie6.3DramaHistoryThe film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Movie6.9ComedyWhen an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
Passport to Pimlico
1949 · 103 votes
Movie6.0RomanceDramaA blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
Madness of the Heart
1949 · 9 votes
Movie6.8ThrillerSpies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948 · 10 votes
Movie6.3WarDramaAfter returning home from war, an ill-tempered young soldier must deal with his sweetheart having married another man.
Tit-Coq
1953 · 6 votes
Movie5.4DramaThrillerIn 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence officer Jimmy Garrick. She shows herself somewhat more amenable to Orloch's advances, and agrees to meet his mother in Halifax. Once there however, it becomes clear no-one is really who they say they are.
Yellow Canary
1943 · 15 votes
Movie9.0ThrillerCrimeAfter hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
La forteresse
1947 · 1 votes
Movie6.3WarActionA disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
Against the Wind
1948 · 16 votes
- Movie6.7Drama
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
The Reluctant Widow
1950 · 2 votes
Movie9.0Nicole Montigny leaves her husband, surgeon Paul, to live with her lover in Canada. Anna, her husband's assistant, thinks she can take advantage of the situation to console the man she loves. She convinces Nicole to fake an accident. However, Paul starts seeing his wife's twin sister, Mireille. Anna, mad with jealousy, brings Nicole back and tries to break up the new couple by blackmail. Nicole decides to eliminate Anna.
Passion de femmes
1955 · 1 votes
Movie5.4ComedyArlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
The Romantic Age
1949 · 6 votes
Movie6.2ComedyAdventureWhen Nathalie, a shoe seller, is abducted, her mother Flora wastes no time taking matters into her own hands. Reluctant to call in the police, she galvanizes her three other daughters into action.
Movie6.5DramaPierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after the end of World War II. Pierre is engaged to a beautiful foreign young lady by the name of Helen Bering. He introduces her to his friend, which seems to trouble him. To his amazement, Helen and Paul disappear without notice. Pierre, who was beginning to feel jealous, sees his suspicion confirmed. He decides to fly to Montreal where he thinks the couple has taken refuge. Once there, he learns that his dear Helen is actually a criminal and that Paul is a policeman whose duty was to arrest her.
Movie6.8ComedyDramaThe fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
Johnny Frenchman
1945 · 5 votes
Movie8.8DramaIn a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
The White Unicorn
1947 · 2 votes
Movie7.5MusicA musical set during the French Revolution.
The Laughing Lady
1946 · 2 votes
Movie8.0HistoryAn explorer is tasked by Samuel de Champlain to learn the language and culture of the Hurons. Étienne Brûlé subsequently adopts their culture. By his mistakes, he causes the fall of the city of Québec, conquered by the English. Declared a traitor, he returns to live within the Hurons.
Étienne Brûlé gibier de potence
1952 · 1 votes
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TV8.0DramaLes Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from 1956 to 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the history of Canadian television, the series produced 81 episodes during its 14-year run and was one of the first influential téléromans. Written by Claude-Henri Grignon as an adaptation of his 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché and initially set in the 1880s, the series starred Jean-Pierre Masson as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, and Andrée Champagne as Donalda Laloge-Poudrier, the young daughter of a village resident who is given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she remains in love with her suitor Alexis Labranche.
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut
1956 · 2 votes