Jean-Claude Labrecque

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-06-19 (81 years old)

Deathday

2019-05-31

Place of Birth

Québec City, Québec, Canada

Jean-Claude Labrecque

Biography

Jean-Claude Labrecque, CM CQ (June 19, 1938 – May 31, 2019) was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada. Jean-Claude Labrecque was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and trained as a camera assistant at the NFB. As a cinematographer, he shot many of the early key films of Claude Jutra (À tout prendre), Michel Brault (Entre la mer et l’eau douce), Gilles Carle (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z), Gilles Groulx (Le Chat dans le sac) and Don Owen (Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail, The Ernie Game). He turned to directing in 1965 with 60 Cycles, about a long-distance bike race on the Nort...

Acting

Production

1968

The Ernie Game

as Director of Photography

1978

26 Times in a Row

as Director of Photography

1963

De Montréal à Manicouagan

as Director of Photography

1972

The Wise Guys

as Screenplay

1963

Olympic Swimmers

as Director of Photography

1987

Le frère André

as Director

1965

The Merry World of Leopold Z

as Director of Photography

2003

2003

1971

Une balle de gin

as Director of Photography

1963

À tout prendre

as Director of Photography

1973

The Conquest

as Director of Photography

1973

The Heavenly Bodies

as Director of Photography

1971

The Apprentice

as Director of Photography

1971

Those Damned Savages

as Director of Photography

1969

Canada the Land

as Director of Photography

1968

From Mother to Daughter

as Director of Photography

1966

Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

as Director of Photography

1965

Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials

as Director of Photography

1965

60 Cycles

as Director of Photography

1965

No Vacation for Idols

as Director of Photography

1964

The Cat in the Bag

as Director of Photography

1964

The Big Swim

as Director of Photography

1984

1975

Les vautours

as Director

1968

A Great Big Thing

as Director of Photography

1970

Charles Gagnon

as Director of Photography

1967

Between Sweet and Salt Water

as Director of Photography

1967

The Times That Are

as Director of Photography

1969

Canada the Land

as Director

1972

The Wise Guys

as Director

2001

Marriages

as Cinematography

2009

Félix

as Director

2009

Félix

as Writer

2002

Le RIN

as Director

2002

Le RIN

as Scenario Writer

1964

Such a Simple Game

as Director of Photography

1980

1965

60 Cycles

as Director

1993

André Mathieu, musicien

as Cinematography

2008

Forever Québec

as Director

2008

Forever Québec

as Cinematography

2008

1991

Amoureux fou

as Second Unit Director of Photography

1975

Les vautours

as Editor

1968

La vie

as Director

1977

Michèle Lalonde

as Director

1978

1982

Marie Uguay

as Director

1970

1974

Les beaux dimanches

as Director of Photography

1967

1964

Walls of Memory

as Cinematography

1990

1990

L'histoire des trois

as Camera Operator

2001

The Woman Who Drinks

as Director of Photography

2005

Novena

as Director of Photography

2007

Summit Circle

as Director of Photography

1964

Jusqu'au cou

as Director of Photography

1976

1976

Québec fête juin '75

as Camera Operator

1995

The Emperor's New Clothes

as Additional Camera

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