Acting
Michel Rivard
Born
1951-09-27 (75)
Place of birth
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Known for
Acting
Credits
54 titles
Michel Rivard (born September 27, 1951) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Quebec, born in Montreal. His father, Robert Rivard, was an actor. Michel began his career at an early age appearing in a Canadian television series (Rue des Pignons) and in TV commercials. Rivard's career as a writer and composer began in earnest when he became a member of the theatrical group Quenouille Bleue, established in 1970. Later, he became a member of Théâtre Sainfoin, when it was founded in 1973. In 1974, Rivard and other members of Théâtre Sainfoin, formed the group Beau Dommage (an old Québécois expression meaning "certainly" or "damn right"). Rivard wrote and composed for Beau Dommage. Beau Domm…
Known for
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Sacrée soirée
1987
4.0Each 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
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Champs-Elysées
1982
4.7Host Guy A. Lepage brings together six to eight personalities from different milieus—sports, politics, stage productions and more—that are the subject of everyone’s conversations and/or are important figures in recent events. Participants are invited to speak freely, voicing their opinions on headline news or on a subject that is near and dear to them.
Tout le monde en parle
2004
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Les Enfants de la télé
2010
2.0What to expect: interviews, musical performances, a fierce band, surprising stories and most of all, guests who are more than happy to play along and follow Éric Salvail on his beautifully crazy tangents!
En mode Salvail
2013
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
8.5An intimate look into the life and career of actor Serge Thériault, a prominent figure in Québec culture.
T'étais où Serge?
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L’origine de mes espèces, la genèse
2021
NREvery morning, Marcel confides in his tape recorder. It is from his reflections on life that this film takes us into the wake of his story.
At the End of Nothing at All
2024
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho!
2023
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Gilles Vigneault : au coeur du pays
2025
No synopsis available yet.
Ensemble pour les Fêtes avec Isabelle Boulay
2020
2010s · 2 titles
2000s · 2 titles
6.4Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Days of Darkness
2007
8.5REDISCOVER 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 · 2 titles
5.7Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Mon amie Max
1994
No synopsis available yet.
Les Parlementeries 1996
1996
1980s · 4 titles
5.1Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...
Singles
1982
6.2A 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
6.0A docudrama on the closing of the town of Schefferville. When Raoul loses his job at the mine because the operations are ending, he's been settled there for ten years with Carmen and their son. They're now forced to leave the town, leaving behind the traces of an ephemeral prosperity.
The Last Glacier
1984
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
Series credits
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Sacrée soirée
1987
4.0Each 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
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Champs-Elysées
1982
4.7Host Guy A. Lepage brings together six to eight personalities from different milieus—sports, politics, stage productions and more—that are the subject of everyone’s conversations and/or are important figures in recent events. Participants are invited to speak freely, voicing their opinions on headline news or on a subject that is near and dear to them.
Tout le monde en parle
2004
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Les Enfants de la télé
2010
2.0What to expect: interviews, musical performances, a fierce band, surprising stories and most of all, guests who are more than happy to play along and follow Éric Salvail on his beautifully crazy tangents!
En mode Salvail
2013
1.0No synopsis available yet.
En direct de l'univers
2009
5.0An original talk show is set in Patrick’s warm and cozy apartment, where he welcomes friends and guests every day to discuss the latest hot topics that affect our lives. The show also features Patrick’s fictional neighbours.
La tour
2020
7.5Public figures from different backgrounds meet each week. At first glance, these guests would seem to have little in common. However, something does unite them all: an event or experience that they have graciously agreed to share that justifies their seat at the same table. As the program unfolds, their shared history is gradually revealed.
Y'a du monde à messe
2017
NRMélissa Lavergne and Normand Brathwaite host a unique musical show where all musical styles collide and where emerging artists rub shoulders with big-name performers.
Belle et Bum
2003
9.3Patrice 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
Dany Turcotte invites celebrities to discover a small rural towns in unexpected and surprising ways. Events are carefully planned cater to the celebrity’s tastes, desires and passions.
La petite séduction
2006
NRA 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Je viens vers toi
2023
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La vraie nature
2017
NRA frenzied series of wacky sketches, surprising and unexpected.
Les Appendices
2009
9.0Back in the 1970s, we see a young Louise who is crazy in love with Vincent, a rebellious activist. Along the way, Louise will have to give up some of her political ideals and make some difficult sacrifices. Today, Louise has become a formidable businesswoman at the head of Nocturne, her perfume empire that owes much of its success to her top-selling perfume Nuit Blanche. Everything changes when, at an evening reception celebrating her success, Louise dies alone in her garden. Is it murder or an accident?
White Night
2021
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pour emporter
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale à Montréal
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A program that tackles major subjects – human, political, cultural, economic and ethical issues – and presents them in a debate format that encourages lively discussion.
Il va y avoir du sport
2004
NRNo synopsis available yet.
PaparaGilles
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale dans la Capitale
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ça va bien aller
2020
9.0Rue des Pignons was a French-Canadian TV series which ran from 1966 to 1977. Radio-Canada has reportedly lost most of the episodes of the series, only managing to trace about 35 of the 427 episodes from 1966 to 1977. The program's theme song was composed and recorded by Pierre Brabant who also played much of the show's background music.
Rue des Pignons
1966
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L'effet Wow
2019
No synopsis available yet.
MTL
2017
No synopsis available yet.
Microphone
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La revue culturelle
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
J'ai la mémoire qui tourne
2009
NRStar Académie is a Canadian reality TV series started in 2003, aimed primarily at the Quebec television audience, featuring an array of young women and men competing for the title of the best singer. It is the Québécois adaptation of the French television show Star Academy produced by Netherlands company Endemol, based on the Spanish format called Operación Triunfo. There have been seasons in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, and 2012.
Star Académie
2003
NRGuests from different cultures and backgrounds join Kim Thúy for an hour of passionate and engaging conversations, an hour of fun and discovery.
La table de Kim
2020
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dans la télé de...
2020
8.0A musician serving others for 20 years, Joseph Marchand dreams of a first solo album. Unfortunately, he is paralyzed by a heartache that prevents him from composing. Supported by his young and ambitious agent, Ariane, who has temporarily become his roommate, he will try to go through the five stages of grief in order to achieve his goals.
Chef d'orchestre
2025
A series that features footage shot by amateur Quebec filmmakers from the 1920’s to the 60’s.
Les p'tites vues
2007
No synopsis available yet.
Cabine C
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Salebarbes aux Îles
2021
Behind the camera
Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà's “Violons d'enfer” staged by the Devil himself. Musical pieces: - Danse macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns - Les beautés du diable by François Dompierre - Valse Mephisto by Franz Liszt - Le diable matou by François Dompierre - Il était une fois... by Ennio Morricone - El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla - Sinfonia op. 12 no 4 by Luigi Boccherini - Orphée aux enfers by Jacques Offenbach
Violons d'enfer
2002
NRA new bride (Régine Bourgeois) is ignored by her husband on their wedding night, but then initiated into all kinds of debauchery with the help of other men and two other women, Christine Leval and Valérie Seller. This begins with the bride, in black stockings and black veil lying in a hammock while one of seven candles is lit and another girl has sex on the floor. One candle is lit and one ‘outrage’ per day is committed until all seven candles are lit, the new bride gradually joining in.
Les 7 Derniers Outrages
1986