Marcel Sabourin
Biography
Marcel Sabourin (born March 25, 1935) is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Abel Gagné, the central character in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's trilogy of Don't Let It Kill You (Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça), The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) and Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais) and his performance as Professor Mandibule in the children's television series Les Croquignoles and La ribouldingue.
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Acting History
2025
Beaupré the Giant as Gérard Picard
2025À la lumière du soir as Self
2025Chef d'orchestre
2024At the End of Nothing at All as Self
2024Dans un cinéma près de chez vous as Self
2023Testament as Monsieur Sylvestre
2023L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho! as Himself
2023Victoire as Jo Milo
2022Niagara as Léopold Lamothe
2021Dying Alive as Luc
2021F*ckin' Coffin! as Father
2021The Sticky Side of Baklava as Guy
2021Charlebois à Ducharme as Self
2020I, Barnabé as Barnabé (voice)
2019The Wall as Frère Gabriel
2019Bonsoir bonsoir! as Self
2018Ange & Ovni
2018YUL
2017LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation
2017Freefall as Maurice Legault
2016Sigismond Imageless as Dr. Thévenin
2016Mathieu
2015Ego Trip as Daniel Valiquette
2015Goldfish as Serge
2014Henri Henri as Monsieur Binot
2014Broken Face as Morlaix (voice)
2014Un après-midi avec Paolo
2013Another House as Henri
2013Amsterdam
2012Mars and April as Capucin
2010Les Enfants de la télé as Self
2009Clouds over the City as Maurice
2009Messmer : le fascinateur as Self
2009Les Appendices as Self
2008Magique as Dr. Klebs
2008Truffle as Monsieur Trottier
2007My Aunt Aline as Claude Longevin
2007Les p'tites vues as Self
2006Roméo et Juliette as Monsieur Leclerc
2005Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making as Maurice Duplessis
2005Shooting Star as Séverin
2004White Skin as Dr. Paul-Émile Gagnon
2002Viens voir les comédiens as Self
2002The Sum of All Fears as Monsieur Monceau
2001Ne dis rien
2000Preludes
2000See You in Toronto
1999Memories Unlocked as Docteur Patenaude
1998Julie and Me as Monsieur Provencher
1998Now or Never as Abel Gagné
1998Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale dans la Capitale as Self
1997Lilies as The Bishop
1996L'oreille d'un sourd
1996L'homme perché
1995Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau as Papineau
1994Wind from Wyoming as Father Lachaise
1994La fête des rois
1994Meurtre en musique
1994Trial at Fortitude Bay as Judge Jean Lamberts
1991The Hitman as Andre Lacombe
1991Berlin Lady as Marquis d'Abrantes
1990The Horse Trader’s Daughter
1989Sous les draps, les étoiles
1989Lessons on Life as Bertrand
1989Jesus of Montreal as Eccentric
1988The Revolving Doors as Homme du train
1986Avec un grand A as François
1984S As in...
1982Sweet Lies and Tender Oaths as Clovis Lavallée
1980Château de cartes as Janvier Pastel
1980The Handyman as Georges Poitras, chauffeur
1980Cordélia as Sheriff Lapointe
1979Riel as Joseph-Noël Ritchot
1977The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died as Abel
1977J.A. Martin Photographer as J. A. Martin
1976Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang… as Ti-Mine
1975Mustang
1975Gina as Actor
1975Eliza's Horoscope as Pervert Doctor
1974Bingo as Pierre Lemoyne
1974Par une belle nuit d'hiver as Bijou
1974Les « troubbes » de Johnny as Le voisin
1973The Last Betrothal as Le docteur
1973L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères) as Religious (uncredited)
1973Taureau as Serge Beaudoin
1973The Death of a Lumberjack as Ti-Noir L'Esperance
1973Des armes et les hommes
1972The Time of the Hunt as Richard
1972Dirty Money as Ernest
1972The Wise Guys
1971Far from the Sun as Robert Bessette
1971The Christmas Martian as The Visitor
1971Those Damned Savages as Steward Jean Talon
1970Two Women In Gold as Yvon-T. Turcot
1969The House of Light
1967Don't Let It Kill You
1965The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan
1965Mission of Fear
1960Smaragdin as Narrator
1954Radio-Canada Fifty Years of Great Children Television as Professeur Mandibule