Biography
Georges Dufaux (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ dyfo]; March 17, 1927 in Lille, France – November 8, 2008 in Switzerland) was a Canadian documentary film director and cinematographer. After graduating in 1953 from the École nationale de photographie et de cinématographie on the rue de Vaugirard, in Paris, Dufaux worked at a film laboratory in Brazil for three years. He came to Canada in 1956 and joined the NFB as an assistant cameraman, first working on the series Candid Eye. Dufaux eventually progressed to cinematographer and was responsible for the photography of many important Canadian films such as Les Brûlés (1959), Astataïon ou Le festin des morts (1965), YUL 871 (1966), Isabel (1968), Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971), Taureau (1973), Les beaux souvenirs (1981), and An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée) (1990). He was also the cinematographer on several of Léa Pool's films.
Dufaux also worked as director on several short films throughout the 1960s and tried his hand unsuccessfully at a fiction feature film in 1967 with Clément Perron, C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier. He returned to documentary films and in the 1970s directed a number of important feature-length documentaries that approached social issues by exploring their impact on the people affected. Dufaux served as Director of the French Program at the NFB from 1986 to 1989 and in 1998 was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier. He died in Switzerland on November 8, 2008.
Filmography
all 57
Movies 57
Director 15
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001)
Touched (1999)
Souvenirs d'Othello (1995)
Wind from Wyoming (1994)
Taking Stock (1994)
An Imaginary Tale (1991)
Hotel Chronicles (1990)
Bayo (1985)
La Femme de l'hôtel (1984)
Happy Memories (1981)
Going the Distance (1979)
Games of the XXI Olympiad (1977)
Ethnocide: Notes on El Mezquital (1977)
Invasion (1775-1975) (1976)
Partis pour la gloire (1975)
Au bout de mon âge (1975)
They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy" (1974)
À votre santé (1974)
Les tacots (1974)
« Les Oreilles » mène l'enquête (1974)
Taureau (1973)
Des armes et les hommes (1973)
À cris perdus (1972)
Stop (1971)
Tiger Child (1970)
Multiple Man (1969)
Isabel (1968)
C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier (1968)
In the Labyrinth (1967)
Cinéma et Réalité (1967)
Ride for Your Life (1967)
YUL 871 (1966)
Mission of Fear (1965)
Geneviève (1964)
Springboard to the Sun (1964)
Caroline (1964)
The Rink (1963)
September Five at Saint-Henri (1962)
The Punishment (1962)
Strangers for the Day (1962)
L'homme du lac (1961)
Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God (1961)
Dubois et fils (1961)
I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling (1960)
City Out of Time (1959)
The Little Sisters (1959)
Les 90 Jours (1959)
Il était une guerre (1959)
Les Brûlés (1959)
Germaine Guèvremont, romancière (1959)
The End of the Line (1959)
The Days Before Christmas (1958)
Police (1958)
Memory of Summer (1958)
Country Threshing (1958)
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Kindergarten
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Known ForCamera
GenderMale
Birthday1927-03-17
Deathday2008-11-08 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceLille, France
ChildrenJean-Michel Dufaux
SiblingsGuy Dufaux
CitizenshipsFrance
AwardsPrix Albert-Tessier
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