Willie Lamothe

Willie Lamothe

Nascimento : 1920-01-27, Quebec, Canada

Morte : 1992-10-19

História

Willie Lamothe was the stage name of Joachim Guillaume Lamothe CM (January 27, 1920 - October 19, 1992), a Canadian musician and actor from Quebec. One of the pioneers of French language country music, he recorded over 500 songs, both originals and translated renditions of English language country music hits, over the course of his career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willie Lamothe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Willie Lamothe

Filmes

L'âge de la machine
Octave
A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.
Mustang
Invited to participate in a western festival, a singer tries to unravel the mysterious death of a friend.
Bingo
Albert
A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
There's Always a Way to Find a Way
Willie Turgeon
The Death of a Lumberjack
Armand St. Amour
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
The True Nature of Bernadette
Antoine, le postier
Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.
Far from the Sun
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
Je chante à cheval avec Willie Lamothe
Self
In a very traditional and popular setting, this documentary follow Willie Lamothe who becomes a national icone aftera 25 years career. The film follows the stars through is retelling of his career, his private life and his shows. It also follows testimonies from his fans and friends. Finaly, it his full of Willie Lamothe's music.