Yvan Ponton

Yvan Ponton

Nacimiento : 1945-10-22, Farnham, Québec, Canada

Historia

Yvan Ponton is a Canadian actor, commentator and television host. Ponton has had a lengthy acting career which includes roles in a variety of major French-Canadian television shows and movies. He is most well known to English-speaking audiences for his role as Drouin in the 1977 film Slap Shot.

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Yvan Ponton

Películas

LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation
Arbitre
When We Were Boys
François Taillefert
Christmas 1967, when hockey was played on outdoor rinks. The Boys form the parish's second team and are guaranteed participation in the Holiday Tournament as they are the hosts. Despite limited talent, they dream of victory. Off the ice, they will have to deal with all kinds of moments that one experiences at that age; some funny and some difficult. Together, however, they will face them. Together, they will try to grow, because this is how they have chosen to live: Together.
Lance et compte
Jacques Mercier
After an hockey game in Lac St-Jean, the National climbs into their bus and begins the long ride from Roberval to Quebec City. On one of the sharp curves around Mount Apica, catastrophe strikes. The bus slams into the mountain and half the players dies. Now the team faces its greatest challenge: rebuilding.
The Boys IV
Jean-Charles
After four years of absence, the Boys are back on the ice! This time, the stake of the Canadian amateur tournament in which they participate is a game against the Legends of the National Hockey League.
The Collector
Robert Fecteau
The detective Maud Graham hides her sensibility behind the image of a strong and independant woman. She frequently offers her hospitality to a 16-year-old prostitute, Grégoire, a young man who became her friend. But when the teenager decides to invite a 12-year-old boy who is running away from home, Maud is near illegality. In addition, the detective has to deal with a serial killer who had already killed and mutilated many women. When she understands that the killer is very intelligent and organized, she elaborates a strategy to arrest him. There starts a dangerous game where the two teenagers that Graham is protecting will be implied. The killer is getting closer, revealing more and more of his madness.
The Boys III
Jean-Charles
Three years have passed. The Boys are still a great hockey team in a garage league. Their coach Stan, in France for three years, returns from his trip to the delight of his troops. However, a wealthy businessman appears in the background and the players feel drawn to the lure of profit until the point where the Boys will face... the Boys.
The Boys II
Jean-Charles
Our Boys are back a year after their last adventures. This time around, the players of Quebec's most popular garage league travel to Chamonix, France, to take part in an international amateur hockey tournament.
Airspeed
Lee 'Bickster' Biquette
When wealthy executive Raymond Stone sends out his private plane to pick up his spoiled teenage daughter, Nicole, and a pair of his top-ranking employees, disaster strikes. While the jet flies through an electrical storm, the pilot and other passengers are incapacitated, and Nicole is left on her own to keep the plane in the air, guided by an air traffic controller. Can the irresponsible and panic-stricken teen find a way to land the jet?
The Boys
Jean-Charles
Every Monday evening, at the arena, eleven men get together to lovingly put on the jersey of the Boys, the hockey team of a "garage" league to which they belong. As Stan, their revered trainer, would affectionately say, they have the "puck" tattooed on their hearts. It doesn't matter if they are lawyers, policemen, mechanics or unemployed, as soon as they enter the locker room, everyone forgets their age, their work and their problems.
Scanners 2: El nuevo orden
Commander John Forrester
David Kellum llega a la ciudad de Iowa donde ha de empezar sus estudios de veterinaria. Enseguida se descubre como Scanner. El Comandante Wayne Forrester lo recluta para utilizar sus poderes en favor suyo. Su objetivo es, aparentemente, que el alcalde lo nombre Jefe de Policía. Pero David pronto se dará cuenta de que lo que el Comandante pretende es crear un estado de policía dirigido íntegramente por scanners. David huye, se reencuentra con su hermana Alice, y juntos intentarán detener a Forrester en su intento de crear un ejército de scanners.
Golpe frío
Inspector Dechesne
Un convencional relato acerca de la aventura de un agente norteamericano abocado a la lucha contra el narcotráfico y de un agente de la Real Policía Montada del Canadá que emprenden la cacería de un zar del negocio de las drogas. Esta situación degenera en la intrusión de la KGB y la CIA con el consiguiente espionaje y contraespionaje y la instrusión de la ex esposa del agente estadounidense, que se halla cantando en un night club.
Blind Trust
H.B.
A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape
Asalto al banco de Montreal
Tremplin
Ningún hombre en su sano juicio hubiera sido capaz de planear el atraco al banco más seguro del mundo. Pero Grimm no es un ladrón vulgar. La dificultad, el riesgo de no salir con vida de esta misión casi imposible, es precisamente lo que más le atrae. Por eso prepara un golpe magistral que nadie hubiera imaginado jamás.
El castañazo
Jean-Guy Drouin
Un veterano jugador que entrena a un equipo de hockey sobre hielo (Newman) ve cómo las derrotas se suceden hasta que decide aplicar la más brutal de las tácticas: aconseja a sus jugadores que jueguen como verdaderos animales durante los partidos, sin importar si la violencia que emplean es o no legal. Divertida y muy bien interpretada, fue duramente criticada en su estreno por su violento -y extremadamente liberal- mensaje.