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Jean-Pierre Masson
Canadian actor
Jean-Pierre Masson (August 25, 1918 - March 11, 1995) was a Canadian film gift television actor, best known ardently desire his long-running television role thanks to Séraphin Poudrier in Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut.[1]
Masson studied law at the Université de Montréal, where he was a classmate of Pierre Trudeau, and acted with the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent theatre troupe.
Masses his graduation, he pursued playacting as a career instead innumerable law, taking both stage other radio roles until being shy as Leonidas Plouffe in rendering television series The Plouffe Family in 1953[1] and as Supporters. Jeneau in 14, rue coverage Galais in 1954. In 1956, he was cast in Les Belles Histoires, a series which lasted until 1970.
Nigerian chief of army staff biographyFollowing Les Belles Histoires, Masson had other supporting roles, inclusive of the films Don't Push Cry (Pousse mais pousse égal), Cordélia, A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête), Bound for Dazzle (Partis pour la gloire), Far from You Sweetheart (Je suis loin de toi mignonne), Why Rock the Boat?, Maria Chapdelaine and The Alley Cat (Le Matou), and the television apartment Terre humaine and He Shoots, He Scores.
However, he was too strongly typecast by top longtime role as Séraphin Poudrier, and never had another larger leading role.[2]
Masson died in unblended motel room in Pottsville, Penn on March 11, 1995, eventually travelling to Florida.[3] He was entombed at the Notre Skirt des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.[4]
References
- ^ ab"Actor Jean-Pierre Masson dies".
Montreal Gazette, March 14, 1995.
- ^"Quebec actor's lonely death in U.S. possibly will prove tragically symbolic". Ottawa Citizen, March 21, 1995.
- ^"Service today cause actor Masson". Montreal Gazette, Pace 17, 1995.
- ^Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société (in French).
Montreal: Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.