RIP Jean Brousseau

The actor Jean Brousseau is no longer

Radio-Canada

6/18/2020

Actor Jean Brousseau died at home in Montreal on Wednesday at the age of 90.

Father of journalist François Brousseau, the deceased was known in the world of theater and television, especially for the role of Dr Jérôme in the series Les Belles Histoires des Pays d'en haut (from the end of the 1950s to the beginning of the years 1970). We will see him, among other things, playing with Andrée Champagne, who died two weeks ago at the age of 80.

He was also part of the distribution of the Duplessis series by Denys Arcand in 1977, in which he played Paul Gouin. We will also see him in the role of Esdras Jobin in the series Boogie-Woogie 47 by Claude Jasmin in 1980-82.

It was at the beginning of the 1960s, in Montreal, that Jean Brousseau embraced theater as a classical actor by tackling, among other things, Ce fou de Platonov by Tchekhov and Le Pélican . We will see it later in Françoise Loranger's Medium Saignant , where he shared the spotlight with Jean Duceppe, or in Le Misanthrope by Molière, embodying Philinte.

Mr. Brousseau also participated in several Telethéâtres broadcast on Sunday evening on public television.

In 1965, he created on Radio-Canada the role of the madman imagined by Michel Tremblay in Le Train , 1964 prize of Young authors of Radio-Canada, with which the Quebec writer made himself known for the very first time, four years before the famous Sisters-in-law.

Jean Brousseau also has fifteen performances in cinema, notably in Les Mains nettes by Claude Jutra in 1958, Je suis loin de toi mignonne by Claude Fournier in 1976, Black Robe by Bruce Beresford in 1991.

Mr. Brousseau worked for the Union des artistes du Québec, where he was on its steering committee before becoming its president in 1974-75. He was also one of the architects of the first convention on the dubbing of films and series in Quebec.

BROUSSEAU, Jean

Born: 9/8/1929, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Died: 6/17/2020, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jean Brousseau’s westerns – actor:

Tomahawk – 1957 (D’Avignon)

Black Rober – 1991 (Champlain)