Julien Poulin
Julien Poulin (born April 20, 1946) is an actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and composer in Quebec, Canada. He has portrayed numerous roles in several popular Quebec films and series.
His most memorable role was Elvis Gratton in which his character impersonates rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. The series of Elvis Gratton films appeared between 1981 and 2004. The most recent of these films were Elvis Gratton II: Miracle a Memphis, filmed in 1999, in which Elvis was resuscitated from the first film of the series, and Elvis Gratton 3: Le retour d'Elvis Wong, which was filmed in 2004. He also co-directed some of the films along with Pierre Falardeau.
Other roles:
In addition to the Elvis Gratton films, Poulin also played several main and supporting roles in other films and television series including The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe) in 1984, Lance et Compte in 1986, The Party (Le Party) in 1990, Virginie in 1996, Jasmine and Omerta 2, la loi du silence in 1997, Les orphelins de Duplessis and Le Dernier souffle in 1999, 15 février 1839 and Fortier in 2001, Séraphin: Heart of Stone in 2002 and Le Negociateur 1 and Le Negociateur 2 in 2005-2006.
Julien Poulin portrays Gaétan Langlois in the award-winning show Minuit, le soir.
In 2007-2009, Poulin took the title role of Bob Gratton in the new TQS series Bob Gratton: Ma Vie, My Life.
Julien Poulin also played in Fred Pellerin's Babine.
Julien Poulin's latest role he played in episode 20 as Jessica's father in Radio-Canada's Unité 9 (2016)
Off-Screen:
Poulin was the spokesperson for Opération Nez rouge in 1996, a campaign against drinking and driving during the holidays.
Taken from Wikipedia
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.791 |
Birthday | 1946-04-20 |
Place of Birth | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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1973
Tu brûles... tu brûles...
4.2/4
A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving...
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Tu brûles... tu brûles...
1999
Elvis Gratton 2: Miracle à Memphis
5.1/9
Elvis Gratton, dead for three days, comes back to life.
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Elvis Gratton 2: Miracle à Memphis
1985
Elvis Gratton
6.3/18
A Québécois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest. He later takes his wife on vacation to the islan...
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Elvis Gratton
2001
Karmina 2
4.4/5
All the vampires have to take a special potion made by Ghyslain Chabot to be human. Chabot's wife isn't a vampire yet but wishes to become one. Ghysla...
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Karmina 2
1990
The Party
6.5/10
At a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is...
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The Party
2004
Elvis Gratton 3: Le retour d'Elvis Wong
4.7/6
A bumbling man finds adventure in the media world.
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Elvis Gratton 3: Le retour d'Elvis Wong
2012
Camion
5.8/10
Truck driving is all sixty-year-old widower Germain has ever known. When he is involved in a head-on collision that leaves a woman dead, his quiet lif...
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Camion
2012
La Mise à l'aveugle
7/1
Denise is a woman of ripe age whose life has recently changed with the divorce from her husband Michel, the relocation to the neighborhood of her yout...
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La Mise à l'aveugle
1988
Unfaithful Mornings
5.7/3
Jean-Pierre, a young photograph, takes a photo of the same street corner every morning for an entire year. This is to help a friend with the writing o...
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Unfaithful Mornings
2014
Miraculum
5.3/23
Sometimes, we're just waiting for a miracle. A nurse who is a Jehovah's Witness, grows fond of the miracle survivor of a plane crash. Two sexagenarian...
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Miraculum
2013
Rédemption
0/0
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Rédemption
2014
Bunker
6.5/4
Two isolated Canadian soldiers come to grip with a difficult order: launch a nuclear strike against the former USSR, some 25 years after the end of th...
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Bunker
1999
The Last Breath
5/4
A Montreal police officer goes to Arkansas to solve the murder of his brother.
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The Last Breath
2015
Paul à Québec
6.7/19
In 1999, Paul and his partner Julie experienced beautiful moments with their young daughter. They are looking for a house in Montreal and frequently s...
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Paul à Québec
2002
Séraphin: Heart of Stone
6/13
The story takes place during the colonization of the Laurentian region in Quebec towards the end of the 19th century (approx. 1885-90), near Sainte-Ad...
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Séraphin: Heart of Stone
2004
Taking Lives
6.377/1549
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scot...
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Taking Lives
1983
Lucien Brouillard
5/4
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Lucien Brouillard
1993
Doublures
5/1
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Doublures
2019
Mad Dog Labine
0/0
A fiery and inventive docufiction that portrays two marginal teenagers living in a remote and underserved Canadian village.
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Mad Dog Labine
1987
Tinamer
4/2
Tinamer is 27 years old when her mother dies. The funeral of this last one makes her relive certain events of her childhood which marked her forever.
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Tinamer
2016
Kiss Me With All Your Love
4.3/6
Montreal, 1940. The Second World War is raging in Europe. Pierre Sauvageau, 22, would like to enlist, but he has to take care of his twin sister, crip...
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Kiss Me With All Your Love
1975
The Mob
6.7/6
Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François “Chico” Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given the opportunity to earn $50,000 killing a prominent...
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The Mob
1976
Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
0/0
A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Fl...
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Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
2000
Heaven
0/0
Heaven is a place with crumbling ceilings, an aging Jesus, and angels and saints entertained by human sexuality. On earth, Christmas, 1999, Jacques, w...
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Heaven
1973
Réjeanne Padovani
6.2/8
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for hi...
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Réjeanne Padovani
2010
Falardeau
6.5/1
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Falardeau
1988
Gaspard et fil$
0/0
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Gaspard et fil$
1997
Bad Trip
0/0
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Bad Trip
2001
15 Février 1839
7.2/15
In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels rot in prison. The morning of February 14, M...
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15 Février 1839
1992
Ma soeur, mon amour
0/0
In 1929, Mr. Messier, owner of a small print shop in a village in Quebec became a widower, he lives with his two children, Rachel, 9 years old, and Ga...
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Ma soeur, mon amour
2008
Babine
6.3/15
The adventures of Babine, the son of a witch and a village pariah, as he ventures forth into the world and narrowly evades death.
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Babine
1984
Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
6.3/3
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman h...
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Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
1985
The Alley Cat
5.2/6
Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their drea...
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The Alley Cat
1999
Pin-Pon: Le film
0/0
It's summer in Pin-Ponville! Pin-Pin, Pon-Pon and Pouet-Pouet, the firefighters of the city are going to the Happiness Camping for their summer vacati...
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Pin-Pon: Le film
1989
Dans le ventre du dragon
6.2/4
The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic. Rather, the fil...
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Dans le ventre du dragon
2022
Family Game
6.6/26
The Arsenaults, a close-knit family who profit from illegal hunting, have ruled the roost for several generations in Témiscouata, Quebec. The return t...
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Family Game
1989
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
4.3/3
A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy a...
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