Canadian actor Julien Poulin died on January 4th
at the age of 78. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on April 20, 1946, he appeared
in a hundred or so films, having recently appeared in the films Arsenault et
Fils and Paul à Québec. His collaboration with the pre-eminent Quebec film
director Pierre Falardeau, however, changed the course of his career. In 1980,
the actor co-directed the short film “Speak White” with Falardeau. Above all,
audiences remember him as Bob Gratton, a garage mechanic with the ambition of
becoming an Elvis Presley look-alike. His alter-ego was named Elvis Gratton.
Poulin appeared as Gabrielle Leger in the 1985-1989 Canadian, Scottish
co-produced TV series “The Campbells” about a widower Dr. James Campbell
(Malcolm Stoddard) who moves to Upper Canada with his three children in the
1830s, and the family and their community deal with adventure and misfortune.
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