Donald Pilon

Acting

Donald Pilon

Born

1938-04-12 (88)

Place of birth

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Donald Pilon (born April 12, 1938) is a Canadian film and television actor. He won the Canadian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1972 for his role in The True Nature of Bernadette, and was a Genie Award nominee in the same category in 1985 for The Crime of Ovide Plouffe.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

2000s · 3 titles

Seducing Doctor Lewis poster
6.9

A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.

Seducing Doctor Lewis

2003

Gilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire poster
NR

Gilles Carle, the prolific director of such movies as La vraie nature de Bernadette and Maria Chapdelaine, has been struggling against Parkinsons disease with dignity for about fifteen years. Based on Carles last script completed in 2000, entitled 'Mona MC Gill et son vieux père malade', Charles Binamés documentary, which took slightly over two years to film, gives us a friendly, penetrating look of a brave, lucid creator confronted with suffering and the perspective of death. Although the subject is grave, we see a stong will to live and to create. A movie shrouded in all the light and love of Chloé Ste-Marie, the famous directors companion of 25 years.

Gilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire

2005

La crème des Bleu Poudre poster
8.5

REDISCOVER the best moments of: Bob Binette, Jacques Chevalier Longueuil, Raymond Beaudoin, Ginet Robidoux, Dave Ash, Ludger, Corporal St-Gelais, Chose, Yasser Arafat (Québec version). LES BLEU POUDRE on Taquinons la planète was: disobedience (they got kicked in the balls), indecency (they walked around naked), recklessness (they went to chat with the Mohawks), and mischievousness (they loved new rhymes). LES BLEU POUDRE was also politically very incorrect — and damn, it felt good. ENJOY IT WHILE IT NO LONGER EXISTS.

La crème des Bleu Poudre

2005

1990s · 6 titles

Laura Cadieux II poster
5.0

Laura Cadieux and her friends are taking a cruise on the St. Lawrence River to celebrate Laura's 50th birthday.

Laura Cadieux II

1999

It's Your Turn, Laura poster
5.4

Large women with a zest for life gather weekly at a Montreal doctor's office to receive diet injections.

It's Your Turn, Laura

1998

Wind from Wyoming poster
4.3

Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte temptress

Wind from Wyoming

1994

Angelo, Fredo, and Romeo poster
3.3

Fredo just inherited his uncle's company but it bores him. Then he meets Angelo, a French movie director that introduces to the magical world of feature films. Suddenly, Fredo sees himself in different films. Soon, Fredo discovers that Angelo has a hidden agenda...

Angelo, Fredo, and Romeo

1996

An Imaginary Tale poster
4.3

In this tragicomedy, Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his loving mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up (and paid) by the same uncle. Some of them have seen every performance of this tragic play, and are understandably bored, so when the backstage romantic shenanigans of the actors result in absurd situations onstage, the audience is delighted. There are a huge number of romantic situations going on in this film at the same time. One of them involves Gaston a somewhat world-weary jazz musician, and Florence, a glamorous middle-aged woman who has been pining for him for years. Another involves to members of the musician's jazz trio. Yet another involves the play's Desdemona, Soledad, the girlfriend of the man playing Othello, who can't keep his hands off his (female) dresser.

An Imaginary Tale

1991

Prince Lazure poster
6.0

A hypochondriac business manager becomes attached to a pretty receptionist who will help him fiercely oppose the shady maneuvers of an executive with excessive ambition.

Prince Lazure

1992

1980s · 10 titles

Secret Weapons poster
6.4

Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.

Secret Weapons

1985

Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte

1988

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe poster
6.0

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 he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe

1984

Les Tisserands du pouvoir poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Tisserands du pouvoir

1988

Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole poster
6.0

Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he'd already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook's corner--as is this TV movie.

Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole

1983

Fantastica poster
6.2

In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.

Fantastica

1980

Keeping Track poster
4.9

The CIA, KGB and RCMP are after a lady banker (Kidder) who has a piece of mutated microchip that engages directly with brain cells.

Keeping Track

1987

Le grand jour poster
NR

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

Le grand jour

1988

Skybolt poster
5.0

A young pilot witnesses the unintentional murder of her two sons (by a rich, drunken couple driving carelessly) and, following a court's decision not to press criminal charges, she decides to get her revenge.

Skybolt

1986

The Plouffe Family poster
6.9

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

The Plouffe Family

1981

1970s · 14 titles

City on Fire poster
5.1

An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

City on Fire

1979

The Uncanny poster
5.8

Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.

The Uncanny

1977

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses poster
4.8

Successful businessman Charles Kruschen (Donald Pilon) is accused of bludgeoning to death his beautiful but manipulative model wife Magdalene (Elke Sommer). As the trial draws to a close, Charles reflects on the events leading up to the terrible incident...

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

1978

Two Women In Gold poster
4.2

Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Their entertainment leads to frantic confusion, however, when one of the visiting gentlemen - shall we say - 'expires'. The housewives deal with their unpleasant situation quite energetically.

Two Women In Gold

1970

The Males poster
5.0

Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a hankering for a woman. When they return to their campsite, they discover a woodland nymph whom they both bed and who drives them wild. Jealousy arises.

The Males

1971

The Wise Guys poster
6.6

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 fight back, accidentally killing a policeman and becoming outlaws in the process.

The Wise Guys

1972

The Pyx poster
5.5

A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.

The Pyx

1973

Bulldozer poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bulldozer

1974

Gina poster
6.2

A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.

Gina

1975

The Heavenly Bodies poster
7.0

A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel.

The Heavenly Bodies

1973

Child Under a Leaf poster
4.0

A restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover.

Child Under a Leaf

1974

Red the Half Breed poster
4.9

The illegitimate son of an Indian woman and a French Canadian man leaves home and is attacked when he tries to return.

Red the Half Breed

1970

The True Nature of Bernadette poster
6.1

Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.

The True Nature of Bernadette

1972

Master Cats poster
7.0

Rosaire and Alex would do anything to seduce girls, but they are broke. In an attempt to escape their problem, they become willing to do anything to make some money.

Master Cats

1971

Series credits

Bonsoir bonsoir! poster
4.0

Each day, Jean-Philippe Wauthier welcomes guests on the show in warm, friendly setting. His interviews focus on their newsworthy achievements but also, and most importantly, on their passions, interests and opinions.

Bonsoir bonsoir!

2019

Les Enfants de la télé poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Les Enfants de la télé

2010

Sucré salé poster
9.3

Patrice Bélanger and his team are here to give Quebecers a little boost to their lives with this show where fun and pleasure prevail. With a front row seat to events happening across the province, the show is the reference for summer culture. Above and beyond the artists featured, the show puts our entire province in the spotlight.

Sucré salé

2002

No artwork available
9.0

A dance-off where stars learn, prepare and present dance routines that they must show to a select panel of judges.

Le match des étoiles

2005

Viens voir les comédiens poster
NR

Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture television network ARTV.

Viens voir les comédiens

2002

Cette année-là poster
NR

A culture show set hosted by Marc Labrèche and his collaborators, Simon Boulerice, Émilie Perreault and Fred Savard. Each week, based on a significant year in history, they revisit a cultural event of a previous era and compare it with today’s yardstick. The hosts and their guests examine subjects that link the chosen year to what’s hot in cultural circles right now.

Cette année-là

2018

Les grands procès poster
7.0

Dramatic reenactments of major Quebec trials.

Les grands procès

1993

Sexe inc. poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sexe inc.

2025

No artwork available
1.0

Ovide's wife Rita continues to flirt with other men after marriage. Unhappy Ovide falls for Marie but can't divorce due to his Catholic beliefs. He breaks up with Marie and plans a trip with Rita, hoping to reconcile, but cancels.

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe

1984