Richard Roy is a Canadian

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and screenwriter. He has directed several feature films in French as well as television films and series for the English-language market. He was raised in the village of Saint-Agapit, in

Lotbinière Regional County Municipality Lotbinière is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2016 Canadian Census, the RCM had a population of 31,741. ...

, Chaudière-Appalaches,

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. His childhood in Saint-Agapit provided the inspiration for his autobiographical 2011 film, ''Frisson des Collines''."Richard Roy: le plaisir de liberté"
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'', April 9, 2011 (in French).

Filmography

Director

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

: '' Moody Beach'' * 1996: ''

Caboose A caboose is a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were formerly required in railway switch, switching and Shunting (rail), shunting, keeping a l ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

: '' Le Masque'' (TV series) *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

: '' Café Olé'' * 2002 : '' Le Dernier chapitre: La Suite'' (TV mini-series) * 2003: '' Deception'' (video) * 2003: '' The Last Chapter II: The War Continues'' (TV mini-series) * 2004: '' A Deadly Encounter'' (TV) * 2005: ''

Crimes of Passion A crime of passion (French: ''crime passionnel''), in popular usage, refers to a violent crime, especially homicide, in which the perpetrator commits the act against someone because of sudden strong impulse such as anger rather than as a premed ...

'' (TV) * 2005: '' Forbidden Secrets'' (TV) * 2006: ''

Flirting With Danger ''Flirting with Danger'' is a 1934 American comedy adventure film directed by Vin Moore and starring Robert Armstrong, Edgar Kennedy and William Cagney (James Cagney's lookalike brother). The picture was released by Monogram Pictures and has a r ...

'' (TV) * 2006: ''

Thrill of the Kill Thrill may refer to: Music * ''Thrill'', a 2000 album by Eleni Mandell * "Thrill", a 1995 song by Tomoyasu Hotei * "Thrill", a song by Band-Maid from the 2015 album '' New Beginning'' Other uses * Thrill (TV channel), a Southeast Asian movie cha ...

'' (TV) * 2009: ''

Final Verdict ''Final Verdict'' (1991) is a TNT drama film starring Treat Williams, Olivia Burnette and Glenn Ford. It was directed by Jack Fisk. The movie is based on the 1962 biography of the same title by Hearst journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns. The bo ...

'' (TV) * 2011: ''

Thrill of the Hills ''Thrill of the Hills'' (french: Frisson des collines) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 2011. Set in Quebec in the late 1960s, the film stars Antoine Olivier Pilon as Frisson, a young boy whose father Aur� ...

(Frisson des collines)''

Performances

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: ''

Lessons on Life ''Lessons on Life'' (french: Trois pommes à côté du sommeil) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jacques Leduc and released in 1989.Charles-Henri Ramond"Trois pommes à côté du sommeil – Film de Jacques Leduc" ''Films du Québec'', March ...

(Trois pommes à côté du sommeil)'': ''Le client du Varimag''

Screenplays

: '' Moody Beach'' * 1996 : '' Caboose (film)''

References

External links

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