Willie Lamothe
Biography
Willie Lamothe was the stage name of Joachim Guillaume Lamothe CM (January 27, 1920 - October 19, 1992), a Canadian musician and actor from Quebec. One of the pioneers of French language country music, he recorded over 500 songs, both originals and translated renditions of English language country music hits, over the course of his career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willie Lamothe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The lives of two families in Montreal.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as L'évadé #2
A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Invited to participate in a western festival, a singer tries to unravel the mysterious death of a friend.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Albert
A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Antoine, le postier
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.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Willie Turgeon
A bank clerk is driven by his brother-in-law in many adventures.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Armand St. Amour
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The story, in three stages, of a friendship between three guys. They have taken different paths, but find themselves equally faced with the failure of their lives. The parody is not exempt from what remains a fine analysis of behavior and environment. For these three Quebecers are, in a way, us, as we have been rendered by a society in search of itself.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.