Jean-Pierre Bergeron
Jean-Pierre Bergeron | |
|---|---|
 Jean-Pierre Bergeron in 2012 | |
| Born | 1952 |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, filmmaker |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
Jean-Pierre Bergeron (born 1952) is a Canadian actor and film director from Quebec.[1]
He is most noted for his performances in the film The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand serpent du monde), for which he received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Jutra Awards in 2000,[2] and the television film Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story, for which he received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 20th Gemini Awards in 2005.[3]
Background
[edit]Born in Jonquière, Quebec, he graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1971.[3]
Career
[edit]He had early acting roles in the television series Rue des Pignons, Quelle famille ! and La Petite Patrie,[3] and made his film debut with a small supporting role in Once Upon a Time in the East (Il était une fois dans l'est) in 1974.[4]
Throughout his career he has regularly acted in both English-language and French-language films, television series and stage plays, as well as working as a theatre director.[5]
In 2011 he made his filmmaking debut with Alone with Mr. Carter, a short film which starred Robert Naylor as a young boy coping with an unrequited crush on the older man next door.[6] Around the same time, he came out as gay for the first time in his career, later telling the press that he had struggled to be open about his sexual orientation for many years because as an actor who had been associated principally with masculine "tough guy" roles such as police officers and criminals, he feared the possible effects on his career of coming out.[7] He subsequently became more active and outspoken as an advocate for LGBTQ mental health and suicide prevention programs.[8]
In 2023, expressing a desire to tell the often overlooked and underrepresented stories of older gay men, he began production on his first full-length feature film, Old Guys in Bed.[9] The film is slated to premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in 2025.[10]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Once Upon a Time in the East (Il était une fois dans l'est) | Cleaner | |
| 1975 | Dear Theo (Cher Théo) | ||
| 1975 | Normande (La Tête de Normande St-Onge) | ||
| 1976 | A Pacemaker and a Sidecar (L'Eau chaude, l'eau frette) | Julien | |
| 1977 | Claude Gauvreau | Lontil Deparey | |
| 1977 | One Man | Union man | |
| 1980 | Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) | Fernand | |
| 1987 | Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit) | Prison guard | |
| 1987 | Brother André (Le Frère André) | ||
| 1989 | Cruising Bar | Nosel | |
| 1989 | Speed Zone | French Flight Passenger | |
| 1990 | Ding et Dong, le film | Jerôme | |
| 1991 | Four Stiffs and a Trombone (L'Assassin jouait du trombone) | Claude Champignac | |
| 1993 | Matusalem | Officer Letendre | |
| 1997 | Matusalem II (Matusalem II: le dernier des Beauchesne) | Officer Letendre | |
| 1998 | Winter Lily | Grant | |
| 1998 | Free Money | Lauter | |
| 1999 | The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand serpent du monde) | Jean Le Maigre | |
| 2001 | Druids (Vercingétorix : La Légende du druide roi) | Diviciac | |
| 2003 | Evil Words (Sur le seuil) | Fr. Boudreault | |
| 2004 | See This Movie | Professor | |
| 2009 | Sticky Fingers (Les doigts croches) | Isidore | |
| 2010 | File 13 (Filière 13) | Fecteau | |
| 2011 | Alone with Mr. Carter | Director | |
| 2013 | The Four Soldiers (Les 4 soldats) | Cmdr. Lacoste | |
| 2014 | 1987 | Premier of Quebec | |
| 2014 | Henri Henri | Neighbour | |
| 2016 | Votez Bougon | Mr. Gagnon | |
| 2021 | Brain Freeze | Minister of public security | |
| 2022 | The Cheaters (Les Tricheurs) | Snack bar employee | |
| 2023 | Hurricane Boy Fuck You Tabarnak! (L'Ouragan F.Y.T.) | Hot dog man | |
| 2023 | Purgatory (Le Purgatoire des intimes) | Bernard Landriault | |
| 2025 | Old Guys in Bed | Director |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Rue des Pignons | ||
| 1972 | Quelle famille ! | ||
| 1974 | La Petite Patrie | ||
| 1974 | Avec le temps | Baron Dietrich | |
| 1985 | L'Or du temps | Bob Leclerc | |
| 1988 | La Maison Deschênes | ||
| 1990] | Les Filles de Caleb | ||
| 1990 | Haute tension - Pour cent millions | Lanthier | |
| 1991 | Prince Lazure | Vallier | |
| 1991 | Lance et compte : Tous pour un | Maurice Pinard | |
| 1992 | Montréal P.Q. | Gérard Godin | |
| 1992 | Armen and Bullik | Auric | |
| 1994 | Les grands procès | Brother Fortin | |
| 1995 | Vents contraires | Diego | |
| 1996 | Innocence | ||
| 1997 | Omerta II: La loi du silence | Marc-André Théoret | |
| 1999 | Bonanno: A Godfather's Story | ||
| 1999 | Rue l'Espérance | Antoine Bourbonnais | |
| 2002 | The Last Chapter | Philip Gabriel | |
| 2003 | The Last Chapter II: The War Continues | Philip Gabriel | |
| 2003 | Alias | Gils Nacor | |
| 2004 | Just Desserts | Emile Fragonard | |
| 2004 | Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story | Andy Hall | |
| 2004 | A Boyfriend for Christmas | Michael Rhodes | |
| 2011 | Comment survivre aux week-ends | Franco | |
| 2016 | Les Pêcheurs | ||
| 2016 | Complexe G | Alex | |
| 2017-2020 | Faits divers | Yvan-Gilles Savard | |
| 2020 | Escouade 99 | Journalist | |
| 2021 | Way Over Me (Sortez-moi de moi) | Shopkeeper | |
| 2024 | La Dernière Communion | Fr. Pierre |
References
[edit]- ^ "Jean-Pierre Bergeron, acteur vétéran et réalisateur de la relève". Ici Radio-Canada Première, December 2, 2024.
- ^ "À la grandeur de la planète!". La Presse, January 27, 2000.
- ^ a b c Agnès Gaudet, "Photos souvenirs: Jean-Pierre Bergeron". Le Journal de Montréal, February 7, 2021.
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Il était une fois dans l’est – Film de André Brassard". Films du Québec, February 28, 2009.
- ^ Pat Donnelly, "Wacky comedy Nevrose just what therapist ordered". Montreal Gazette, January 19, 1988.
- ^ André Duchesne, "RVCQ: le cinéma libérateur de Jean-Pierre Bergeron". La Presse, February 17, 2012.
- ^ François Hamel, "Jean-Pierre Bergeron explique pourquoi il a attendu d’avoir 59 ans pour sortir du placard". 7 Jours, September 6, 2024.
- ^ Normand Boivin, "Jean-Pierre Bergeron parle de suicide et d'homophobie". Le Quotidien, February 3, 2016.
- ^ Bruno Lapointe, "Jean-Pierre Bergeron lance une campagne de sociofinancement pour achever son premier long-métrage, «Old Guys in Bed»". Le Journal de Montréal, September 14, 2023.
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Fantasia: Old Guys In Bed en première". Films du Québec, June 10, 2025.
External links
[edit]- 1952 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian male actors
- 20th-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- 21st-century Canadian male actors
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
- Canadian male film actors
- Canadian male stage actors
- Canadian male television actors
- Canadian male screenwriters
- Canadian gay actors
- Canadian gay writers
- Canadian LGBTQ film directors
- Canadian LGBTQ screenwriters
- Film directors from Quebec
- Male actors from Quebec
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- People from Saguenay, Quebec
- National Theatre School of Canada alumni
- Canadian theatre directors
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