René Delacroix Explained

René Delacroix (August 27, 1900 – June 11, 1976) was a French film director and screenwriter.^[1] He was most noted for a mid-career period from 1949 to 1954 when he was based in Montreal, during which he directed or co-directed several of the most important early feature films in the Cinema of Quebec.^[2] The film Tit-Coq, codirected with Gratien Gélinas, won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year at the 5th Canadian Film Awards in 1953.^[3]

Filmography

• La relève - 1932
• Meute et kangourous... - 1935
• Promesses - 1939
• Notre-Dame de la Mouise - 1941, writer only
• The Murderer Is Not Guilty (L'assassin n'est pas coupable) - 1946
• Gonzague - 1947
• The Grand Bill (Le Gros Bill) - 1949, with Jean-Yves Bigras
• The Story of Dr. Louise (On ne triche pas la vie) - 1949, with Paul Vandenberghe
• They Are Twenty - 1950
• The Nightingale and the Bells (Le Rossignol et les cloches) - 1952
• Tit-Coq - 1953, with Gratien Gélinas
• A Mother's Heart - 1953
• The Heartthrob (Le Tombeur) - 1958

Notes and References

1. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111150943/ "Fine Canadian Film: St. Hyacinthe Main Setting For an Entertaining Story"
2. Michel Houle et Alain Julien, Dictionnaire du cinéma québécois, Fides, 1978.
3. "On the Screen". The Globe and Mail, May 1, 1953.