Jean Marchand

Acting

Jean Marchand

Born

1951-04-22 (75)

Place of birth

Sorel, Quebec, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Jean Marchand is a French Canadian stage, film and television actor and pianist, best known for playing the role of the high-strung music teacher Rolland Montmorency, aka M. Musique, on Unité 9, the acclaimed television series about a woman's penitentiary, for four years from 2012 to 2015.

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

Wynonna Earp poster
7.8

Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.

Wynonna Earp

2016

The Recruit poster
7.5

Recruited out of law school by the CIA, a daredevil young attorney leaps unprepared into the dangerous world of international espionage.

The Recruit

2022

Unite 9 poster
6.0

Marie Lamontagne, a widowed mother of two in her forties, confesses to a murder she didn't commit to protect her daughter. Thrust into brutally unfamiliar and hostile surroundings, she first learns survival, then confronts the biggest challenge of her life: bonding with her fellow inmates and helping them take back control of their lives.

Unite 9

2012

The Wall poster
6.8

Fermont: A remote mining colony in the endless frozen hell that is Canada's far North. The body of a young exotic dancer is found and the Quebec City police sends one of their toughest, most experienced detectives to investigate. Céline sure is always up for a challenge. Being cooped up in the massive structure that is the colony – the inhabitants simply call it “The Wall” – soon presents her with some challenges that exceed her investigative efforts.

The Wall

2019

Les grands procès poster
7.0

Dramatic reenactments of major Quebec trials.

Les grands procès

1993

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

2010s · 4 titles

Ghost Town Anthology poster
6.2

It is a small village somewhere in Quebec with only 215 inhabitants. When young Simon Dubé dies in a car accident, the villagers’ tranquil and regulated existence is thrown out of step. People are decidedly reluctant to talk about the accident. Time seems to lose all meaning. Snowy, frosty winter days stretch out into infinity. Mysterious figures emerge from the fog and commit strange acts. But what seems strange is sometimes more familiar than one might suspect.

Ghost Town Anthology

2019

Boris Without Beatrice poster
6.5

Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain arrogance when it comes to his successes. For some time now, his wife Béatrice, a Canadian government minister, has been bedridden, suffering from a mysterious depression. To escape from his wife’s agony, Boris begins a relationship with a colleague, Helga, and gets close to Klara, a young woman who works as a maid in Boris’s home. The sudden appearance of a stranger in his life forces Boris to come face-to-face with the world, with everything he takes for granted, with all his certainties.

Boris Without Beatrice

2016

Mars and April poster
5.6

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 inspired by women's bodies, designed by his friend Arthur. A love triangle develops when Jacob and Arthur both fall in love with Avril, a young photographer. Enter Eugène Spaak, Arthur's father, an inventor and cosmologist who unveils a new theory about man's desire to reach Mars and helps Jacob find the true meaning of life and love.

Mars and April

2012

The Yellows poster
6.0

An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Quebec town.

The Yellows

2014

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 8 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

La Corrivaux poster
9.0

A teleplay about Marie-Josephte Corriveau, a French-Canadian woman executed by the British in 1763 for the murder of her second husband, Louis Dodier.

La Corrivaux

1995

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

Desire in Motion poster
4.7

During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.

Desire in Motion

1994

No artwork available
9.0

Denis comes out of a love affair that disturbs him a lot. One day he meets Simone in the university cafeteria and he immediately understands that she is the woman of his life. But Simone is not the type to fall into the arms of the first comer!

Embrasse-moi, c'est pour la vie

1993

Craque la vie! poster
7.5

Between her four children, her husband, her job at the hardware store, and the creditors on her back, Hélène leads a life that dangerously resembles a makeshift camp in a constant state of emergency. She muddles through as best she can.

Craque la vie!

1994

Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas poster
NR

Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.

Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas

1995

Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau poster
NR

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada.

Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau

1995

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

Wynonna Earp poster
7.8

Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.

Wynonna Earp

2016

The Recruit poster
7.5

Recruited out of law school by the CIA, a daredevil young attorney leaps unprepared into the dangerous world of international espionage.

The Recruit

2022

Unite 9 poster
6.0

Marie Lamontagne, a widowed mother of two in her forties, confesses to a murder she didn't commit to protect her daughter. Thrust into brutally unfamiliar and hostile surroundings, she first learns survival, then confronts the biggest challenge of her life: bonding with her fellow inmates and helping them take back control of their lives.

Unite 9

2012

The Wall poster
6.8

Fermont: A remote mining colony in the endless frozen hell that is Canada's far North. The body of a young exotic dancer is found and the Quebec City police sends one of their toughest, most experienced detectives to investigate. Céline sure is always up for a challenge. Being cooped up in the massive structure that is the colony – the inhabitants simply call it “The Wall” – soon presents her with some challenges that exceed her investigative efforts.

The Wall

2019

Les grands procès poster
7.0

Dramatic reenactments of major Quebec trials.

Les grands procès

1993

The Yellows poster
NR

Two grocery store clerks find themselves in the midst of a mysterious invasion of yellow crawling brains that contaminate the population and turn them into zombies.

The Yellows

2013

The Phantom poster
4.9

Chris Moore is shocked to learn that he was adopted and is actually the son of The Phantom, a caped crime fighter. He joins the Phantom team in the jungles of Bengalla to train in martial arts and combat, and emerges as the next Phantom.

The Phantom

2009