John L'Ecuyer
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John L'Ecuyer is a Canadian
film and television director
. He is the younger brother of Gerald L'Ecuyer
, a noted Canadian
film and television director
. L'Ecuyer studied at Ryerson University
in Toronto, where his classmates included screenwriter Brad Abraham
.
His first feature, Curtis's Charm (1995), was an adaptation of a Jim Carroll
story. The film received a special jury citation as Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival
. L'Ecuyer's short film Use Once and Destroy (1995) also received a special jury citation at the festival, as Best Canadian Short Film.
L'Ecuyer's other feature film credits include Saint Jude (2000), and Le goût des jeunes filles (2004). He directed the movie In God's Country, a 2007 fiction film detailing the escape of a woman from a Mormon
polygamous community and her adaptation to life in mainstream Canadian society. He is executive producer of The Limits (2007), a debut feature film by director Ben Mazzotta
.
His television work includes A Nero Wolfe Mystery
, Queer as Folk
, Live Through This
, ReGenesis
, Blue Murder, Traders
and Cold Squad
.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
film and television director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
. He is the younger brother of Gerald L'Ecuyer
Gerald L'Ecuyer
Gerald L’Ecuyer is a Canadian film and television director.L’Ecuyer was born in Montreal. He studied at Marianopolis College in Montreal, before going to New York, were he studied at the New School and worked for Andy Warhol’s Interview. He returned to Montreal and studied cinema at Concordia...
, a noted Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
film and television director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
. L'Ecuyer studied at Ryerson University
Ryerson University
Ryerson University is a public research university located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its urban campus is adjacent to Yonge-Dundas Square located at the busiest intersection in Downtown Toronto. The majority of its buildings are in the blocks northeast of the square in Toronto's Garden...
in Toronto, where his classmates included screenwriter Brad Abraham
Brad Abraham
Brad Abraham is a screenwriter, author and journalist.His work includes Stonehenge Apocalypse Robocop: Prime Directives I Love Mummy and the National Film Board of Canada produced Hoverboy. He was also an uncredited writer on the remake of the 70s slasher classic Black...
.
His first feature, Curtis's Charm (1995), was an adaptation of a Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.-Biography:Carroll was born to a...
story. The film received a special jury citation as Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
. L'Ecuyer's short film Use Once and Destroy (1995) also received a special jury citation at the festival, as Best Canadian Short Film.
L'Ecuyer's other feature film credits include Saint Jude (2000), and Le goût des jeunes filles (2004). He directed the movie In God's Country, a 2007 fiction film detailing the escape of a woman from a Mormon
Mormon
The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...
polygamous community and her adaptation to life in mainstream Canadian society. He is executive producer of The Limits (2007), a debut feature film by director Ben Mazzotta
Ben Mazzotta
Ben Mazzotta is a Canadian film and television director. Mazzotta was born and raised in Toronto, where he received his B.A. in Film and Image Arts at Ryerson University...
.
His television work includes A Nero Wolfe Mystery
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
A Nero Wolfe Mystery is a television series adapted from Rex Stout's classic series of detective stories that aired for two seasons on the A&E Network. Set in New York City in the early 1950s, the stylized period drama stars Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin...
, Queer as Folk
Queer as Folk (US TV series)
Queer as Folk is an American and Canadian television series co-production, produced by Showtime and Temple Street Productions, which was based on the British series of the same name, created by Russell T Davies...
, Live Through This
Live Through This (TV series)
Live Through This is a teen drama broadcast on MTV during the 2000–2001 season, though cancelled after only 13 episodes due to poor ratings. The hour-long drama plot involved a fictional '80s band entitled "The Jackson Decker Band" reuniting for one last comeback tour. Each episode featured...
, ReGenesis
ReGenesis
ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...
, Blue Murder, Traders
Traders (TV series)
Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000.-Overview:Although Global had locked up most of NBC's "Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama ER...
and Cold Squad
Cold Squad
Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...
.
Director
- It's a Beautiful Day (1994)
- Low Life (1994)
- Use Once and Destroy (1995)
- Curtis's Charm (1995)
- The RezThe RezThe Rez was a first nations, Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1996 to 1998. Most of the characters were based on W.P...
(1996, TV series) - Ready or Not (TV series)
- "Prince Charming" (1996)
- "Second Generation" (1997)
- "Saint Carla" (1997)
- Confessions of a Rabid Dog (1997)
- Da Vinci's InquestDa Vinci's InquestDa Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....
(TV series)
- "Known to the Ministry" (1998)
- "The Stranger Inside" (1998)
- Cold SquadCold SquadCold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...
(1998–1999, TV series) - TradersTraders (TV series)Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000.-Overview:Although Global had locked up most of NBC's "Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama ER...
(TV series)
- Cold Squad
- "Meltdown"
- "End Games" (1998)
- "Reap the Whirlwind" (1998)
- "Killer Instinct" (1998)
- "This World ... Then the Fireworks" (1999)
- The Hunger (1997, TV series)
- The City (TV series)
- "Shadows" (1999)
- "Obsessions" (1999)
- "Swing Your Partner" (2000)
- "Sweet Cherub: Part I" (2000)
- "Blindside! (2000)
- Live Through ThisLive Through This (TV series)Live Through This is a teen drama broadcast on MTV during the 2000–2001 season, though cancelled after only 13 episodes due to poor ratings. The hour-long drama plot involved a fictional '80s band entitled "The Jackson Decker Band" reuniting for one last comeback tour. Each episode featured...
(2000) - Saint Jude (2000)
- Queer as Folk (TV series)
- Blue Murder (TV series)
- Live Through This
- "Steel Drums" (2001)
- "Remington Park" (2001)
- Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback StoryTagged: The Jonathan Wamback StoryTagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story is a Canadian film about teen violence based on a true incident.Playing the movie's central character is Tyler Hynes as "Jonathan Wamback"...
(2001)
- Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story
- A Nero Wolfe MysteryA Nero Wolfe MysteryA Nero Wolfe Mystery is a television series adapted from Rex Stout's classic series of detective stories that aired for two seasons on the A&E Network. Set in New York City in the early 1950s, the stylized period drama stars Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin...
(2001–2002, TV series)
- "Eeny Meeny Murder Moe" (2001)
- "Disguise for Murder" (2001)
- "Too Many Clients" (2002)
- "Before I Die" (2002)
- "Help Wanted, Male" (2002)
- Tom Stone (2002, TV series)
- Choice: The Henry MorgentalerHenry MorgentalerHenry Morgentaler, CM is a Canadian physician and prominent pro-choice advocate who has fought numerous legal battles for that cause.-Early life:...
Story (2003) - Just Cause (2002–2003, TV series)
- "Tonia with a O" (2002)
- "Trial by Memory" (2003)
- Prom Queen: The Marc Hall StoryProm Queen: The Marc Hall StoryProm Queen: The Marc Hall Story is a Canadian television movie, which aired on CTV in 2004. The film is about Marc Hall, a gay Canadian teenager whose legal fight to bring a same-sex date to his Catholic high school prom made headlines in 2002.-Plot:...
(2004) - On the Verge of a Fever (2004)
- The Murdoch Mysteries (2005, TV series)
- Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story
- "Under the Dragon's Tale" (2005)
- 11 Cameras11 Cameras11 Cameras is a short-lived CBC Television half-hour drama series that showed its characters through webcams. The show aired in the summers of 2006 and 2007. CBC ordered 22 episodes in total, and did not renew the show, although it lives on in South America and can be seen in other parts of the world...
(2006, TV series) - In God's Country (2007)
- ReGenesisReGenesisReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...
(2004–2007, TV series)
- 11 Cameras
- "Baby Bomb" (2004)
- "The Oldest Virus" (2004)
- "Blackout" (2004)
- "The Secret War" (2004)
- "Resurrection" (2005)
- "The Longest Night" (2005)
- "Haze" (2006)
- "China" (2006)
- "The Cocktail" (2006)
- "Our Men in Havana" (2006)
- "Adrift" (2007)
- Murdoch MysteriesMurdoch MysteriesMurdoch Mysteries is a Canadian drama television series that airs on Citytv, featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the 1890s. The television series is based on the Detective Murdoch series of novels by Maureen Jennings. The fifth season was...
(2008–, TV series)
- Murdoch Mysteries
- "Bad Medicine" (2008)
- "The Prince and the Rebel" (2008)
- "The Curse of Beaton Manor" (2010)
- The Guard (2008, TV series)
- "Fistful of Rain" (2008)
- "Body Parts" (2008)
- The Good Times are Killing Me (2008)
Writer
- Low Life (1994)
- It's a Beautiful Day (1994)
- Use Once and Destroy (1995)
- Curtis's Charm (1995)
- Confessions of a Rabid Dog (1997)
Producer
- ReGenesisReGenesisReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...
(2004–2007, TV series)
- "Haze" (2006, creative producer)
- "China" (2006, creative producer)
- "Escape Mutant" (2006, creative producer)
- "The Cocktail" (2006, creative producer)
- "Our Men in Havana" (2006, creative producer)
- "Gene in a Bottle" (2006, creative producer)
- "Dim & Dimmer" (2006, creative producer)
- "Massive Change" (2006, creative producer)
- "Listen to Him" (2006, creative producer)
- "The Wild and the Innocent" (2006, creative producer)
- The Limits (2007, executive producer)
External links
- Northern Stars profile