Marcel Sabourin
Marcel Sabourin (born March 25, 1935) is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Abel Gagné, the central character in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's trilogy of Don't Let It Kill You (Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça), The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) and Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais) and his performance as Professor Mandibule in the children's television series Les Croquignoles and La ribouldingue.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.079 |
Birthday | 1935-03-25 |
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2002
The Sum of All Fears
6.345/1688
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia a...
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The Sum of All Fears
2021
F*ckin' Coffin!
5/2
May 20, 1980. After his father's passing, Raymond Tremblay, tax investigator, begins to suspect the funeral home of fraudulent activities. Accompanied...
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F*ckin' Coffin!
2020
I, Barnabé
5.7/3
I, Barnabé takes a luminous look at a desperate man’s existential crisis. During a night of stormy drunkenness, he receives a visit from a mysterious...
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I, Barnabé
1995
Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau
0/0
Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada.
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Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau
2023
Victoire
6/4
VICTOIRE traces the story of Victoire Du Sault, founder of the shoemaking industry at the origin of the Dufresne fortune, better known for the castle...
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Victoire
2008
Magique
4/1
Tommy, a little boy who lives alone with his mother, sees a circus set up near his home. He sets off to discover this new world.
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Magique
2023
L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho!
0/0
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L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho!
1960
Smaragdin
0/0
Smaragdin was selected at the Annecy Festival in 1960 and constitutes an astonishing contribution to the history of experimental animation cinema in Q...
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Smaragdin
1977
J.A. Martin Photographer
6.2/9
The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the int...
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J.A. Martin Photographer
1971
The Christmas Martian
4.3/5
A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft. Thi...
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The Christmas Martian
1998
Julie and Me
3.5/4
Two friends meet after 15 years. They have a complicated and intimate past that becomes impossible to deny in spite of intentions to the contrary.
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Julie and Me
2021
Dying Alive
0/0
Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve....
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Dying Alive
1972
The Time of the Hunt
6.3/6
A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
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The Time of the Hunt
1994
Wind from Wyoming
4.1/7
Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte temp...
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Wind from Wyoming
1977
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
5.2/5
A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationshi...
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The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
2001
Ne dis rien
0/0
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Ne dis rien
1973
The Death of a Lumberjack
4.7/7
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) gr...
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The Death of a Lumberjack
1974
Bingo
7.2/9
A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
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Bingo
1996
L'oreille d'un sourd
0/0
A philandering wife and a sleazy womanizing con-man team up to off a troublesome father-in-law in this acid-tinged French Canadian black comedy. Leon,...
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L'oreille d'un sourd
2013
Another House
6/7
Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri...
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Another House
2000
See You in Toronto
0/0
Jean Pierre Lefebvre’s short comments on history and film’s role in it.
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See You in Toronto
2007
My Aunt Aline
5.6/5
Geneviève Saint-Louis, a bachelor and neurotic careerist, refuses any form of engagement. Her aunt Aline, a former cabaret singer, arrives at her home...
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My Aunt Aline
1996
Lilies
8.2/49
1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a prison to hear the confession of Simon, a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. However, once there, Bilodeau...
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Lilies
2000
Preludes
0/0
Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of te...
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Preludes
1973
The Last Betrothal
5.5/4
After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long left to live. But after more then 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die a...
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The Last Betrothal
2018
Ange & Ovni
0/0
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Ange & Ovni
1975
Mustang
0/0
Invited to participate in a western festival, a singer tries to unravel the mysterious death of a friend.
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Mustang
1970
Two Women In Gold
3.9/7
Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their...
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Two Women In Gold
2014
Henri Henri
6.5/8
Henri was raised by religious in a convent and lived with them until the women, now elders, moved, leaving him alone. Henri fixes lamps. Since his you...
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Henri Henri
2009
Clouds over the City
5.7/3
Jean-Paul is a public servant, tired of toiling at his soul-destroying job. As a writer, he feels out of touch with the times and longs for inspiratio...
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Clouds over the City
2014
Broken Face
6.3/3
Loik, a disfigured sailor, is posted to a remote lighthouse with Morlaix, a tyrannical head keeper. But soon, the two men find themselves besieged by...
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Broken Face
2024
At the End of Nothing at All
0/0
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At the End of Nothing at All
1982
Sweet Lies and Tender Oaths
0/0
An eccentric old grandmother decides to leave her nagging daughter's house to live on her own. Her teenaged granddaughter seizes the opportunity to go...
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Sweet Lies and Tender Oaths
2023
Testament
6.759/27
In an era of political correctness, identity evolution, protests, cultural scandals, activism, media storms, and other disputes, Jean-Michel, a 70-yea...
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Testament
2004
White Skin
5.104/24
Two roommates discover that the family of one of their girlfriends is populated with vampires.
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White Skin
1974
Par une belle nuit d'hiver
0/0
Two young adults discover love by a beautiful Montreal winter night.
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Par une belle nuit d'hiver
1991
The Hitman
5.305/82
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercov...
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The Hitman
1973
L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
2.3/3
Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try and seduce one of the village women.
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L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
2024
Beaupré the Giant
0/0
Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8 ft. 3 in. Died too young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning.
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Beaupré the Giant
1972
The Wise Guys
6/4
In this French Canadian film, when the provincial government tries to move two young farmers from their land to make way for development, the two figh...
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The Wise Guys
1969
The House of Light
5.2/4
This plodding piece of cinematic ambiguity finds a married couple engaged in boring conversation in a window as scenery changes behind them. When they...
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The House of Light
1984
S As in...
0/0
One day Jean-Baptiste Beauregard (Pierre Curzi) does not go out to face work or daily activities, instead he daydreams about the women in his past, ab...
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S As in...
1972
Dirty Money
6.2/4
After a raucous visit from the wealthy Uncle Arthur , working class Montreal couple Roland and Berthe are left feeling slighted by his meager gift of...
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Dirty Money
1990
The Horse Trader’s Daughter
0/0
An Irishman falls in love in turn-of-the-century Quebec (in Canada).
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The Horse Trader’s Daughter
1965
The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan
5/1
An atmospheric mood piece photographed in the winter at the giant dam built by Hydro Quebec in the northern wilds of the province. The story concerns...
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The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan
1973
Taureau
5.2/5
A family that does not conform to the social norms of a small village must suffer the intolerance of the other villagers when the mentally-challenged...
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Taureau
2016
Mathieu
0/0
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Mathieu
1971
Far from the Sun
6.5/4
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his...
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Far from the Sun
1965
Mission of Fear
0/0
A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.
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Mission of Fear
1998
Now or Never
5.6/5
A pilot who has not flown in years due to an accident has to deal with unexpected visitors and financial woes on the day he decides to return to the s...
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Now or Never
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…
1967
Don't Let It Kill You
5.4/5
A 30-year old man is forced out of his inert and absent-minded existence when it's complicated by the three women in his life.
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Don't Let It Kill You
1989
Lessons on Life
0/0
A day in the life of a Quebec magazine writer - his fortieth birthday - from his dream before waking to his last act before sleeping. He looks back ov...
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Lessons on Life
2017
LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation
0/0
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LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation
1973
Des armes et les hommes
0/0
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Des armes et les hommes
1994
Trial at Fortitude Bay
0/0
Defence attorney Gina Antonelli is sent to an Arctic village to defend 19 year-old Pauloosie, accused of committing a violent crime. Her rival, prosec...
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Trial at Fortitude Bay
1988
The Revolving Doors
5.9/7
A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes s...
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The Revolving Doors
2016
Sigismond Imageless
0/0
Sigismond Langlois is submitted to a psychiatric evaluation on account of his violent behavior. He just turned 18, and pretends he was born with no im...
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Sigismond Imageless
2018
YUL
0/0
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YUL
1971
Those Damned Savages
7.3/3
A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.
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Those Damned Savages
1996
L'homme perché
0/0
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L'homme perché
1980
Cordélia
6.8/2
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of...
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Cordélia
1975
Gina
6.1/15
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
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Gina
1994
La fête des rois
0/0
Benjamin, a 10 year-old boy, lives with his mother Charlotte since his dad, Christophe, left. Charlotte is expecting a child from Henri, but is hesita...
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La fête des rois
2014
Un après-midi avec Paolo
0/0
Ben comes to volunteer for the first time at Paolo's retirement home, but something strange is going on there.
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Un après-midi avec Paolo
1974
Les « troubbes » de Johnny
0/0
A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather f...
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Les « troubbes » de Johnny
2015
Ego Trip
4.8/5
Talk show host Marc Morin is at a crossroads in his career and in his personal life. The ratings of his show are failing and he is losing touch with h...
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Ego Trip
2013
Amsterdam
4.8/11
Three friends go on a fishing trip. Well ... that's what everyone believes.
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Amsterdam
1989
Jesus of Montreal
6.895/81
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the...
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Jesus of Montreal
2008
Truffle
6.2/6
Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles.
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Truffle
2021
The Sticky Side of Baklava
6/1
The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre...
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The Sticky Side of Baklava
2006
Roméo et Juliette
5/8
Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because h...
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Roméo et Juliette
1999
Memories Unlocked
6.2/9
In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her...
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Memories Unlocked
2012
Mars and April
5.917/18
In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments...
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Mars and April
2009
Messmer : le fascinateur
0/0
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Messmer : le fascinateur
2005
Shooting Star
6.2/4
Four young women are participating on Idole Instantanée, a reality show produced by Omni Global, in which a complete stranger turns into a music star...
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Shooting Star
2022
Niagara
6/2
A comedy drama about the fall, mourning and rebuilding of oneself around three brothers in their fifties who will have to reconnect after the death of...
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Niagara
2021
Charlebois à Ducharme
8/1
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Charlebois à Ducharme
1975
Eliza's Horoscope
4/5
A young woman arrives to Montreal to find love. A fortune teller tells her that a wealthy man meant for her is right around the corner so she goes loo...
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