 He is also remembered in his role as Denis Boucher in the québécois film "The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)" directed by Gilles Carle.He was romantically involved with actress Anne Caudry, who in turn died of HIV in 1991, before marrying Emöke Masznyik, a young Hungarian dancer and mime.He died of an HIV-related illness on 14 November 1989 and is interred at Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule.