Yvon Leroux

Yvon Leroux

Acting
1929-04-22
Saint-Eustache, Québec, Canada

Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles

#1Champs-Elysées

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Self

6.8 / 10
Talk

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#2Chambres en ville

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Père de Pete

6.0 / 10
SoapDrama

This serial portrays the lives of young people in a student residence. Louise, who owns the house, has had to play every role imaginable, including mother, nurse, confidant, psychologist and probation officer. With their affection for Louise, it's no wonder they come back every year. Some manage to stand on their own two feet, but Louise is always there for them.

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#3Poivre et sel

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Benoit

7.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#4Deliver Us from Evil

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.3 / 10
Drama

André and his sister Lucille come from a wealthy family. Both seem attached to Georges, be charismatic, exuberant, charming and self-centered. A vicious man who hates his life and seems to take pleasure in manipulating others in squalid perverse games.

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#5O.K.... Laliberté

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Le beau frère

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

A down-and-out man who got separated, gets his second chance in a boarding house, thanks to a friend who is a con man, and falls in love with a roommate. However, when he gets a job, his ego gets over and might lose everything he got.

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#6Kamouraska

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Policier

5.9 / 10
DramaHistory

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.

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#7Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
FantasyFamily

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.

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#8Amanita Pestilens

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Neighbour

6.5 / 10
DramaFantasy

A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.

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#9The Promised Land

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as l'ivrogne

9.0 / 10
Drama

Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

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#10The Promised Land

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Drama

Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

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#11Windigo

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Rogatien Côté

6.3 / 10
Drama

Native Americans clash with the Canadian government as they struggle for independence in this factual Canadian drama set in Quebec during the summer of 1990. Eddie Laroche, a rebellious native leader spawned a national crises when he and his supporters declared the independence of Aki territory in a far-flung area of northern Quebec. He refused to negotiate without the presences of television cameras to record his people's plight. Jean Fontaine was the reporter assigned to the story and much of the film is told from his viewpoint. To reach Laroche's land, negotiators, government officials, and the film crew had to travel by boat. Fontaine is initially cynical and reluctant to do the story, but after he spends time on the boat interviewing it's passengers, his cynicism has dissolves and he realizes he is faced with the presentations of a terribly complex situation. His dilemma provides a main focus for the film.

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#12J.A. Martin Photographer

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Hector

6.6 / 10
Drama

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.

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#13The Christmas Martian

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Taxi Driver

4.4 / 10
FamilyComedySci-Fi

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.

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#14The True Nature of Bernadette

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Agriculteur (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
DramaComedyDrama

Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.

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#15Il était une guerre

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Ouvrier

10.0 / 10
Drama

We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, finally, the return to Quebec where readjustment to civilian life proves more difficult than it seems. These events are experienced and told by the voice of a young man.

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