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Legendary Quebec stage and screen star Janine Sutto died Tuesday in Montreal. She was 95.

Her son-in-law, Jean-Francois Lepine, in a statement confirmed her death due to natural causes after a short stay in palliative care. Born in Paris in 1921, Sutto and her family emigrated to Quebec in 1930.

During a 70-year career, she appeared in more than 75 TV series including Les Belles Histoires des pays d’en haut, Joie de vivre, Septième nord, Symphorien and Poivre et sel. Her film roles included Kamouraska, Congorama, La Capture and Route 132.

Sutto also made her name as the grande dame...

Organisers of Prix Jutra ceremony may consider removing late director’s name following biographer’s claim he slept with underage prostitutes

He is known as the grandfather of Quebecois cinema, his name still garlanding the Canadian province’s annual equivalent of the Oscars more than three decades after the actor and celebrated director drowned himself in the St Lawrence River, aged 56. But Claude Jutra’s legacy as a Canadian film icon has been called into question following the publication of a new book that claims he was a paedophile.

Film historian Yves Lever’s biography of Jutra, who was openly gay, claims the director of Mon Oncle Antoine and Kamouraska regularly had sex with boys as young as 14 and 15, and in one case under 14. In a section titled plainly “Claude Jutra and boys”, Lever writes: “During shoots, especially those in the country, promiscuity renders secrets impossible to keep. People quickly...