{{Short description|Canadian film director and screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Pierre Patry | image = Pierre Patry, Hiver 2012.jpg | image_size = 280px | caption = Pierre Patry in his home at Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, Quebec. Winter 2012 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|11|02}} | birth_place = Hull, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|6|7|1933|11|02}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Film director, Film producer, screenwriter | years_active = 1950s-1980s }}
'''Pierre Patry''' (November 2, 1933 – June 7, 2014) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.<ref name=cfe>{{cite web |url=https://cfe.tiff.net/canadianfilmencyclopedia/content/bios/pierre-patry |title=Pierre Patry |website=Canadian Film Encyclopedia|author=Tom McSorley|url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515214715/http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/pierre-patry |archivedate=2012-05-15 }}</ref>
==Biography== Born in Hull, Quebec, Patry began his career in the theatre as an actor and a playwright. He was a founding member of the Canadian Association of Amateur Theatre. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1957 as a writer on the ''Panoramique'' series. Patry was a major force in the beginning of the Quebec feature-film industry in the sixties. He directed three features, most notably ''Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête)'' in 1964.<ref name=cfe/>
He left the NFB in 1963 to co-found the film cooperative Coopératio with Roger Blais and Jean-Claude Lord.<ref name=cfe/> Unfortunately, the company shut down after five years because of systemic problems in the financing and distribution of feature films.
In 1981 he was a major player in the development of the French language educational television station Canal Savoir.
Patri died on June 7, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|author=Charles-Henri Ramond |url=http://www.filmsquebec.com/cineaste-producteur-pierre-patry-est-decede/ |title=Le cinéaste et producteur Pierre Patry est décédé |publisher=Films du Québec|date=June 12, 2014}}</ref>
==Filmography==
===As director===
====Fiction==== *''Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine'' - 1962, short *''Françoise (Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin)'' - 1964, short (re-released as part of the 1964 anthology film ''Trois Femmes'') *''Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête)'' - 1964 *''Caïn (Les Marcheurs de la nuit)'' - 1965 *''Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou)'' - 1965
====Documentaries==== *''Eye Witness No. 99'' (Documentary series Co-Directed with Hector Lemieux and Jacques Bobet, 1958) (Segment ''La roulotte'') *''Germaine Guèvremont romancière'' (Short film, 1959) *''Les petites soeurs'' (Short film, 1959) *''Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien'' (Short film, 1960) *''Collèges contemporain'' (Short film, 1961) *''Croisements et profits'' (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1961) *''Loisirs'' (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1962) *''Petit discours de la méthode'' (Short film Co-Directed with Claude Jutra, 1963) *''Ghosts of a River (Trois hommes au mille carré)'' 1966 (Short film Co-Directed with Jacques Kasma, 1966) *''Shapp for Governor'' (Short film Co-Directed with Morten Parker, 1966) *''Infirmière de nuit'' (Short film, 1966)
===As writer=== *''The Little Sisters (Les petites soeurs)'' - 1959 *''Germaine Guèvremont, romancière'' - 1959 *''Collège contemporain'' - 1960 *''Le grand duc'' - 1959–1963 *''Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien'' - 1960 *''Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine'' - 1962 *''Ti-Jean caribou'' - 1963–1966 *''Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête)'' - 1964 *''Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou)'' - 1965
===As producer=== *''Françoise (Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin)'' - 1964 *''Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête)'' - 1964 *''Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou)'' - 1964 *''Caïn (Les Marcheurs du matin)'' - 1965 *''Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal)'' (1966) *''Dust from Underground (Poussière sur la ville)'' - 1968 *''Between Salt and Sweet Water (Entre la mer et l'eau douce)'' - 1968 *''A Great Big Thing'' - 1968 *''The Doves (Les Colombes)'' - 1972
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0666012|Pierre Patry}}
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