Jean Beaudry


Jean Beaudry is a Canadian film director, actor and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted as co-director with François Bouvier of the 1984 film Jacques and November , which was selected as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for [Best International Feature Film] at the 58th Academy Awards, and the 1989 film Unfaithful Mornings , for which the duo received a Genie Award nomination for Canadian [Screen Award for Best Director|Best Director] at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990.
His first role as an actor was in Michel Audy's 1975 film The House That Hides the Town . He subsequently acted in both Jacques and November and Unfaithful Mornings, and had a small supporting role in Jacques Leduc's 1989 film Lessons on Life , but concentrated on filmmaking thereafter and did not have another acting role until La Bolduc in 2018.
Following Unfaithful Mornings he directed The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't , the tenth film in the Tales for All series of children's films. He followed up in 1992 with a second Tales for All film, The Clean Machine , and in 1996 with the adult drama film A Cry in [the Night (1996 film)|A Cry in the Night] . He then did not return to film until 2013, when he was contacted by Rock Demers to direct a third Tales for All film, The Outlaw League , after André Melançon was forced to abandon the project due to ill health.
His most recent film, the documentary François Barbeau: créateur de costumes, was released in 2018.

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