Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jean-Claude Lord (born June 6, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.  He was one of the most commercial of the Quebecois directors in the 1970s and aimed his feature films at a mass audience and dealt with political themes in a mainstream, Hollywood style. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Claude Lord , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.