Louis-Marie "Loïc" Le Gouriadec (May 11, 1888 – November 13, 1974), known professionally as Paul Gury, was a French-Canadian film and theatre actor, director and writer. He was most noted as the director of three significant films in the early Cinema of Quebec.David Clandfield, Canadian Film. Oxford University Press, 1987. . p. 60.
Career Born in Vannes, Morbihan, France, he emigrated to Montreal, Quebec in 1907, and studied dramatic arts at the Conservatoire Lassalle.Jean Marmier, "La carrière franco-canadienne de Loïc Le Gouriadec, homme de théâtre" in Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest, Vol. 85, No. 4 (1978). pp. 631-640. In 1918, he became director of Montreal's Théâtre National. He wrote or cowrote a number of stage plays during this era, including Le Mortel baiser,"'The Kiss That Kills" at the Can.-Francais". Montreal Star, May 10, 1921. L'Homme au foulard blanc, Les Dopés, Les Esclaves blanches and a theatrical adaptation of Louis Hémon's novel Maria Chapdelaine.Fred Kerner, "London, Little Theatre Centre, Lays Welcome Mat for Festival". Kingston Whig-Standard, May 2, 1947. He remained with the theatre until 1936, when he was succeeded as director by Rose Ouellette.
In the 1930s, he began working in film, with acting and screenwriting credits in several French films, and in broadcasting as a writer of radio dramas for CKVL, CKAC and Radio-Canada. His noted radio dramas included La Fiancée du commando and Le procès du fils de l’homme.
He was hired by producer Paul L'Anglais to direct A Man and His Sin, the 1949 film adaptation of Claude-Henri Grignon's novel Un homme et son péché.Herbert Whittaker, "True Quebec Production: 'Un Homme et Son Peche' Could Have Been Made Nowhere Else So Successfully". Montreal Gazette, January 29, 1949. In the same year he also directed The Village Priest (Le Curé de village),Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 231. and in 1950 he released Séraphin, a sequel to A Man and His Sin.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Séraphin – Film de Paul Gury". Films du Québec, January 3, 2009.
He had occasional acting roles thereafter, including in stage productions of Jean Anouilh's The Lark"Special Staging for Lark". Montreal Gazette, February 15, 1958. and Maurice Gagnon's Edwige,"Rideau Vert Presents Original Canadian Play". Montreal Star, November 6, 1959. and continued to write for radio into the 1960s, including the dramatic serials Vies de femmes and L'Hirondelle du faubourg.
Throughout his career, he was credited as Paul Gury when acting or directing, but used his real name in writing credits.
Personal life He was married to actress Yvette Brind'Amour, with whom he participated in the creation of her theatre company Théâtre du Rideau Vert in 1949.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1931La Prison en folie1935Debout là-dedans!Le surveillant général1936Death on the Run (Le Mort en fuite)IvanAlso writer1936Moutonnet1937Le cantinier de la coloniale1938My Father and My Daddy (Mon père et mon papa)Le colonialAlso writer1938Escadrille of Chance (L'escadrille de la chance)Writer1949A Man and His Sin (Un homme et son péché)Director, writer1949The Village Priest (Le Curé de village)Director1950SéraphinDirector, writer1952Run Away Mr. Perle (La Fugue de Monsieur Perle)Writer1954Death on the Run (Les deux font la paire)Writer1959OuraganDr. Léonard MorinTV series1966Chacun son amour
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