Director, Producer

(b. November 2, 1933 Hull, Quebec)

Pierre Patry began his career as an actor, writer and radio deejay before joining the National Film Board 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 fête (1964). He also founded the film cooperative Coopératio with Roger Blais and Jean-Claude Lord in 1963, which went on to produce seven features in the next several years, including Entre la mer et l’eau douce (1967), Poussière sur la ville (1968), Délivrez-nous du mal (1966) and Les Colombes (1972).

Film and video work includes

Eye Witness No. 99: Canada's Caribbean Campus, 1958 (co-director with Hector Lemieux)
Germaine Guèvremont romancière, 1959 (director; writer)
Les Petites Soeurs, 1959 (director; writer)
Le Chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien, 1960 (director; co-writer with Lionel Groulx, André Laurendeau)
Collèges contemporain, 1960 (director; co-writer with Clément Perron)
Croisements et profits, 1961 (co-director with Clément Perron)
Loisirs, 1962 (co-director with Clément Perron)
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1962 (director; co-writer with Lise Lavallée; co-editor with Victor Jobin)
Ti-Jean caribou series, 1963 (co-writer with Guy Fournier, Louise Fournier, Louise Norbert et al.; TV)
Petit Discours de la méthode, 1963 (co-director with Claude Jutra)
Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin, 1964 (director; producer)
Une femme pour les autres, 1964 (director; writer)
Caïn, 1965 (director; producer with Jean Roy)
La Corde au cou, 1965 (director; co-writer with Claude Jasmin; co-production manager with Jean Roy)
3 hommes au mille carré, 1966 (co-director with Jacques Kasma)
Délivrez-nous du mal, 1966 (producer with Jean Roy)
Infirmière de nuit, 1966 (director)
Poussière sur la ville, 1968 (producer with Jean Roy)

By: Tom McSorley