Biography
The producer of some of Canada's most widely recognized films, Nicolas Clermont co-founded Filmline International, which quickly became not only the country's leading production company, but also pioneered some of Canada's first official co-productions with foreign nations such as China.
Born in Neuilly, France, Clermont began his career on his native soil in the early '60s, before relocating to Montreal to expand his career in the latter years of the decade. After a short time working in the production and direction of educational documentaries and television, Clermont moved to Los Angeles for a short while before returning to Montreal and founding Filmline Intl. in the early '80s. Producing such films as Ford: The Man and the Machine (1987) and The Blue Man (1985), Clermont took control of the company after producing Bethune -- The Making of a Hero (1990), shifting gears to focus on more commercial endeavors.
Turning out installments of the popular
Highlander series, as well as Monument Avenue (1998) and television's The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Filmline Intl. also produced 1999's
Eye of the Beholder,
The Art of War (2000), and
The Caveman's Valentine (2000). On the eve of producing
A Sound of Thunder, Filmline Intl.'s highest profile film to date, Clermont died of cancer on April 11, 2001, in his Montreal home. He was 59. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide