Guy L'Écuyer

Acting

Guy L'Écuyer

Born 1931-07-26 · Montréal, Québec, Canada

Guy L'Écuyer was a Canadian actor from Montréal, Québec. He was most noted for his performance in André Forcier's 1983 film Au clair de la lune, for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.

Acting credits

The Time of the Hunt poster
6.3

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.

The Time of the Hunt

1972

You Are Warm... You Are Warm... poster
5.0

A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving into a wacky and unusual universe, full of fantasy, imagination, and visual and sound gags.

You Are Warm... You Are Warm...

1973

Amuse-gueule poster
7.0

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

Amuse-gueule

1984

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

Les vautours poster
7.0

Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.

Les vautours

1975

Une Nuit en Amérique poster
8.0

One night from which arise enigmatic corpses, police who understand nothing, improbable witnesses. Mysteries and inconsistencies are added to each other.

Une Nuit en Amérique

1975

Les indrogables poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les indrogables

1972

Les 90 Jours poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Les 90 Jours

1959

The Lucky Star poster
8.0

In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.

The Lucky Star

1982

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

Lies My Father Told Me poster
4.4

A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.

Lies My Father Told Me

1975

Maria Chapdelaine poster
6.2

A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.

Maria Chapdelaine

1983

J.A. Martin Photographer poster
6.6

At the turn of the century, Rose-Aimée, the hard working wife of photographer J.A. Martin, decides to leave her children with an aunt to go with him on his annual tour of the Québec countryside. She hopes the intimacy will rekindle their marriage.

J.A. Martin Photographer

1977

Hot Dogs poster
5.0

Mr. Clean is a police detective who heads a special task force of the vice squad. Clean's by-the-book attitude makes him none too popular with his underlings, so they try to fake a sex scandal that will cause him to be fired from the force.

Hot Dogs

1980

Cold Journey poster
9.0

In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him to be a white man and tries to find a way of life more meaningful to his Indigenous culture and ancestry.

Cold Journey

1975

Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang poster
8.0

Nobody ever listens to Jacob, so he always has to repeat himself. A trip to the grocery store leads to a misunderstanding and Jacob falls asleep hiding in a park. When he wakes up, he discovers that he is in trouble for insulting the store clerk. He is sent to a prison for children that is located on Slimer's Island and is run by the Hooded Fang, an ex-wrestler who outwardly hates children. Meanwhile, Child Power representatives the Intrepid Shapiro and Fearless O'Toole try to find the prison's hidden location to help free the children.

Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

1978

La fleur aux dents poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La fleur aux dents

1976

Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie poster
5.0

In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple.

Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie

1976

Rope Around the Neck poster
5.8

A misfit desperately looking for the murderer who has just killed his wife.

Rope Around the Neck

1965

A Pacemaker and a Sidecar poster
6.4

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

A Pacemaker and a Sidecar

1976

Moonshine poster
7.4

A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.

Moonshine

1983

The Christmas Martian poster
4.4

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. This alarms the parents but he wins them over and they have a great big Christmas party.

The Christmas Martian

1971

The Appearance poster
9.0

The appearance is a satirical comedy that mocks the small Quebec people and its excessive religiosity.

The Appearance

1972

Talk About Love poster
9.0

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.

Talk About Love

1976

Behind the camera