Claude Jutra
Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter
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- Claude Jutra ( French pronunciation: [klod ʒytʁa] ; March 11, 1930 – November 5, 1986) was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter.
- The awards were renamed in 2016, as were streets named for him, following the publication of allegations that he had sexually abused children during his lifetime.
- His father, Albert Jutras, was a radiologist and a director of the Collège des médecins du Québec.
- He studied theatre in Montréal (1952–53) and wrote his first original Quebec television play ( L'Ecole de la peur ) in 1953, and a television series, Images en boite , in 1954.
- He went to work at the National Film Board of Canada in 1956 where he trained in all facets of filmmaking, although his first film for the NFB, Trio-Brio , was permanently lost when the organization moved its head office from Ottawa to Montreal.
Claude Jutra (French pronunciation: [klod ʒytʁa]; March 11, 1930 – November 5, 1986) was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter.
The Prix Jutra, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Claude Jutra Award, were named in his honour because of his importance in Quebec cinema history. The awards were renamed in 2016, as were streets named for him, following the publication of allegations that he had sexually abused children during his lifetime.
Life and career
Jutra was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec as Claude Jutras. His father, Albert Jutras, was a radiologist and a director of the Collège des médecins du Québec. He made the short films Dément du lac Jean-Jeunes and Perpetual Movement (Mouvement perpétuel) before graduating from the Université de Montréal with a degree in medicine, but turned to filmmaking instead of medical practice after completing his degree. He studied theatre in Montréal (1952–53) and wrote his first original Quebec television play (L'Ecole de la peur) in 1953, and a television series, Images en boite, in 1954. He was openly gay.
He went to work at the National Film Board of Canada in 1956 where he trained in all facets of filmmaking, although his first film for the NFB, Trio-Brio, was permanently lost when the organization moved its head office from Ottawa to Montreal. As a filmmaker, he dropped the s from his surname, a common Québécois surname, because the Jutra spelling was more distinctive. In 1958 he went to France and Africa to work with noted French filmmaker, Jean Rouch.
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