Roger Fournier

Roger Fournier (October 22, 1929 - May 31, 2012) was a Canadian writer and television director. He was most noted for his novel Le cercle des arènes, which won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction and the Prix France-Québec in 1982, and his screenplay for the film A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi), for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1983.

He was a longtime television director for Télévision de Radio-Canada, including on the series Moi et l'autre and Bye Bye, and assisted in creating Gilles Vigneault's first concert tour.

Filmography

 * Inutile et adorable (1963)
 * À nous deux! (1965)
 * Les Filles à Mounne (1966)
 * Journal d'un jeune marié (1967)
 * La voix (1968)
 * L'innocence d'Isabelle (1969)
 * Heads or Tails (Pile ou face) - 1971
 * Gilles Vigneault, mon ami (1972)
 * La marche des grands cocus (1972)
 * Moi, mon corps, mon âme, Montréal, etc. (1974)
 * Les cornes sacrées (1977)
 * Pour l'amour de Sawinne (1984)
 * Les sirènes du Saint-Laurent (1984)
 * Chair Satan (1989)
 * La Danse éternelle (1991)
 * Le retour de Sawinne (1992)
 * Gaïagyne (1994)
 * Les mauvaises pensées (1996)
 * Le pied - contes érotiques et très cruels (1996)
 * Le Stomboat (1999)
 * Les miroirs de mes nuits (2000)