Jean-Louis Millette

Acting

Jean-Louis Millette

Born — Died

1935-01-04 — 1999-09-29

Place of birth

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Jean-Louis Millette was a French-speaking actor and writer. Millette was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Millette's television career spans over thirty years: he was a cast member of many of the best-known series in Quebec, including the children's series La Ribouldingue, L'Héritage, Symphorien and Montréal P.Q.

Known for

Heritage Minutes poster
7.3

Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.

Heritage Minutes

1991

Les grands procès poster
7.0

Dramatic reenactments of major Quebec trials.

Les grands procès

1993

Radio-Canada Fifty Years of Great Children Television poster
NR

French sitcom for children

Radio-Canada Fifty Years of Great Children Television

1954

Les Intrépides poster
6.4

Les Intrépides, is a France-Quebec TV series for children, released between 1993 and 1996, that ran for 52 episodes. The series is about adventures of two kids; Julie Boileau and Tom Miller, whose parents got married and that made them step-siblings. Tom and Julie run their own radio station for kids and help its listeners to resolve their - often criminal - adventures and problems.

Les Intrépides

1992

Some Girls poster
5.8

While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.

Some Girls

1988

L'Héritage poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Héritage

1987

Film credits

1990s · 10 titles

The Confessional poster
6.0

Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc, who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Quebec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrigue where the answer to the mystery lies.

The Confessional

1995

Amoureux fou poster
4.2

When Remy, an ad consultant, falls in love with Sarah, the newest star of an ad campaign, sparks fly. The only problem is that they are both married. Sarah's husband knows she will eventually get tired of Remy while his wife just can't let go. At first she throws him out, begs him to come back, cheats on him, hates him, and finally slumps into the worse depression ever. It is amazing what love can do...

Amoureux fou

1991

Heritage Minutes: Jacques Cartier poster
NR

The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.

Heritage Minutes: Jacques Cartier

1991

Montreal Stories poster
5.0

Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.

Montreal Stories

1991

No artwork available
NR

It's 1st August - Swiss National Day. Superintendent Knöbel's peace and quiet is suddenly disturbed by the trifling case of a stolen football. What has 10-year-old Samb from Africa got to do with all this?

Samb and the Superintendent

1998

Memories of Water poster
NR

A man murders his dying lover. He drowns him in a tub of water. We drift through the man's mind in the hours after the death. He falls more and more deeply into layers of memory. La mémoire de l'eau is a tale of fear, love and grief set in a world of uncertain boundaries.

Memories of Water

1996

Pablo qui court poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pablo qui court

1991

Nelligan poster
3.8

This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic circumstances.

Nelligan

1991

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La fenêtre

1992

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cuervo

1990

1980s · 11 titles

Some Girls poster
5.8

While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.

Some Girls

1988

Jesus of Montreal poster
6.9

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 production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.

Jesus of Montreal

1989

La nuit avec Hortense poster
6.0

In an abandoned house by the river, a man meets a woman. All night long, they try to love each other.

La nuit avec Hortense

1988

In the Shadow of the Wind poster
5.8

The story is of a young man, Stevens, who returns to his native village after a five year exile caused by a violent quarrel with his father. The story revolves around the women in Stevens life and the affects of his presence.

In the Shadow of the Wind

1986

Dans le ventre du dragon poster
7.0

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 film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor's contention that a person's intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye proves her right...up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.

Dans le ventre du dragon

1989

Amuse-gueule poster
7.0

Humurous short on the theme of hunger around the world that combines animation and fiction.

Amuse-gueule

1984

Le grand jour poster
NR

A day in the life of two Québec families reunited for their children's wedding.

Le grand jour

1988

Pourquoi l'étrange monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? poster
NR

"Why is the strange Mr. Zolock so interested in comics?" is a Canadian docufiction film, released in 1983. A documentary about comic books and graphic novels, the film features interviews with comics illustrators wrapped by a fictional frame story in which Monsieur Zolock (Jean-Louis Millette), an evil supervillain, hires private investigator Dieudonné (Michel Rivard) to investigate the cultural influence of comics as part of his plot to take over the world. The film won the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.

Pourquoi l'étrange monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée?

1983

Blind Trust poster
5.2

A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape?

Blind Trust

1986

Lamento pour un homme de lettres poster
8.0

Lamento is an unfinished novel by writer Albert Laberge. Laberge, recognized today as Quebec's first naturalist author, published La scouine in 1918, a novel that earned him accusations of pornography from the Catholic Church. The fiction paints an impressionistic portrait of a man torn between his literary ambitions and his exhausting work as a sports journalist for the daily La Presse.

Lamento pour un homme de lettres

1988

Le dernier havre poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le dernier havre

1986

Series credits

Heritage Minutes poster
7.3

Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.

Heritage Minutes

1991

Les grands procès poster
7.0

Dramatic reenactments of major Quebec trials.

Les grands procès

1993

Les grands procès poster
7.0

Dramatic reenactments of major Quebec trials.

Les grands procès

1993

Radio-Canada Fifty Years of Great Children Television poster
NR

French sitcom for children

Radio-Canada Fifty Years of Great Children Television

1954

Radio-Canada Fifty Years of Great Children Television poster
NR

French sitcom for children

Radio-Canada Fifty Years of Great Children Television

1954

Les Intrépides poster
6.4

Les Intrépides, is a France-Quebec TV series for children, released between 1993 and 1996, that ran for 52 episodes. The series is about adventures of two kids; Julie Boileau and Tom Miller, whose parents got married and that made them step-siblings. Tom and Julie run their own radio station for kids and help its listeners to resolve their - often criminal - adventures and problems.

Les Intrépides

1992

L'Héritage poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Héritage

1987