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Ovila Légaré

Ovila Légaré

actor and singer from Quebec (1901-1978)
July 21, 1901 (February 19, 1978)

In the Name of the Son

V.O.: Et du fils
Can. 1971. Drama by Raymond Garceau with Ovila Légaré, Réjean Lefrançois, Maruska Stankova. A young man wants to turn his father's mansion into a hotel for tourists and hunters.
Runtime: 82 min.

The Awakening

V.O.: L'Amour humain
Can. 1970. Psychological drama by Denis Héroux with Louise Marleau, Jacques Riberolles, Charlotte Boisjoli. The marital difficulties of a former priest who married a former nun.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 68 min.
Can. 1966. Crime drama by Martin Green with Peter Kastner, Meredith McRae, Ovila Légaré. After the discovery of a dead body, the suspicions of the police are focused on two young people involved in drug trafficking.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 1961. Social drama by Bernard Devlin, Raymond Leboursier with Ovila Légaré, Jean Duceppe, Émile Genest. A health problem leads a business owner to think about what will happen to his business after his death.
Runtime: 57 min.

The Promised Land

V.O.: Les Brûlés
Can. 1958. Chronicle by Bernard Devlin with Jean Lajeunesse, J.-Léo Gagnon, Félix Leclerc. In 1933, the work of a group of men who came, with their families, to colonize a wild region of Abitibi.
Runtime: 116 min.

The Nightingale and the Bells

V.O.: Le Rossignol et les cloches
Can. 1952. Musical by René Delacroix with Gérard Barbeau, Nicole Germain, Jean Coutu. A piano recital organized in a village is disturbed by the voice of a small singer.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1951. Crime drama by Otto Preminger with Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie. Anonymous letters poison the atmosphere of a small town.
Runtime: 85 min.
Can. 1949. Dramatic comedy by Paul Gury Le Gouriadec with Ovila Légaré, Paul Guévremont, Lise Roy. The priest of a Quebec village watches over the happiness of two lovers.
Runtime: 85 min.

Whispering City

V.O.: La Forteresse
Can. 1947. Melodrama by Fedor Ozep with Paul Dupuis, Jacques Auger, Nicole Germain. A young journalist believes she has discovered that a man, thought to have died in an accident, was actually murdered.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Music Master

V.O.: Le Père Chopin
Can. 1945. Comedy by Fedor Ozep with Madeleine Ozeray, Marcel Chabrier, Guy Mauffette. A widowed musician and his children are welcomed into the home of a rich relative.
Runtime: 109 min.

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