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Françoise Berd

Date of birth: 1923-03-02

Place of birth: Saint-Pacome, Québec, Canada

Known for: Acting

Also known as: Francoise Berd

Françoise Berd

Biography

Françoise Berd (born Françoise Bernadette Loranger; March 2, 1923 – August 10, 2001) was a Quebec actress and founder of the theatre company L'Égrégore. Berd played the role of the caretaker in the film A Special Day (Una Giornata particulare) by Ettore Scola (1977), alongside Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Description above from the Wikipedia article Françoise Berd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movie Credits

A Special Day
4

A Special Day

1977-08-11

Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day o

Talk About Love
4

Talk About Love

1976-09-23

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from v

La Belle apparence
2.5

La Belle apparence

1979-03-30

A Pacemaker and a Sidecar
2.9

A Pacemaker and a Sidecar

1976-01-04

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the loc

Bar Salon
2.6

Bar Salon

1974-01-01

Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.

Agnes of God
3.1

Agnes of God

1985-09-13

When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice

Contrecoeur
2.5

Contrecoeur

1983-03-11

Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three charac

The Time of the Hunt
2.9

The Time of the Hunt

1972-10-06

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend h

Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
3.5

Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…

1976-01-13

A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They dec

Wind from Wyoming
1.9

Wind from Wyoming

1994-05-26

Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester i

J.A. Martin Photographer
3.1

J.A. Martin Photographer

1977-05-26

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian country

Cordélia
3.4

Cordélia

1980-02-07

In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' village

Quintet
2.5

Quintet

1979-02-09

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Q

The Lady of Colours
2.8

The Lady of Colours

1985-01-29

In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where chi

Kamouraska
2.9

Kamouraska

1973-07-18

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints

Piwi
0

Piwi

1981-01-01

The nightmares of a poor and lonely delivery man.

Au pays de Zom
0

Au pays de Zom

1982-01-01

A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a cap

Amuse-gueule
0

Amuse-gueule

1984-12-31

Humurous short on the theme of hunger around the world that combines animation and fiction.