René Delacroix

René Delacroix (August 27, 1900 – June 11, 1976) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was most noted for a mid-career period from 1949 to 1954 when he was based in Montreal, during which he directed or co-directed several of the most important early feature films in the Cinema of Quebec. The film Tit-Coq, codirected with Gratien Gélinas, won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year at the 5th Canadian Film Awards in 1953.

Filmography La relève - 1932 Meute et kangourous... - 1935 Promesses - 1939 Notre-Dame de la Mouise - 1941, writer only The Murderer Is Not Guilty (L'assassin n'est pas coupable) - 1946 Gonzague - 1947 The Grand Bill (Le Gros Bill) - 1949, with Jean-Yves Bigras The Story of Dr. Louise (On ne triche pas la vie) - 1949, with Paul Vandenberghe They Are Twenty - 1950 The Nightingale and the Bells (Le Rossignol et les cloches) - 1952 Tit-Coq - 1953, with Gratien Gélinas A Mother's Heart - 1953 The Heartthrob (Le Tombeur) - 1958