Pierre Patry
# Pierre Patry

Pierre Patry (November 2, 1933 – June 7, 2014) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.

## 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.

He left the NFB in 1963 to co-found the film cooperative Coopératio with Roger Blais and Jean-Claude Lord. 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.

## 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
