René Delacroix (August 27, 1900 – June 11, 1976) was a French film director and screenwriter."Fine Canadian Film: St. Hyacinthe Main Setting For an Entertaining Story". Montreal Star, March 3, 1952. He was most noted for a mid-career period from 1949 to 1954 when he was based in Montreal, during which he directed or co-directed several of the most important early feature films in the Cinema of Quebec.Michel Houle et Alain Julien, Dictionnaire du cinéma québécois, Fides, 1978. The film Tit-Coq, codirected with Gratien Gélinas, won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year at the 5th Canadian Film Awards in 1953."On the Screen". The Globe and Mail, May 1, 1953.
Filmography La relève - 1932 Meute et kangourous... - 1935 Promesses - 1939 Notre-Dame de la Mouise - 1941, writer only The Murderer Is Not Guilty (L'assassin n'est pas coupable) - 1946 Gonzague - 1947 The Grand Bill (Le Gros Bill) - 1949, with Jean-Yves Bigras The Story of Dr. Louise (On ne triche pas la vie) - 1949, with Paul Vandenberghe They Are Twenty - 1950 The Nightingale and the Bells (Le Rossignol et les cloches) - 1952 Tit-Coq - 1953, with Gratien Gélinas A Mother's Heart - 1953 The Heartthrob (Le Tombeur) - 1958
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