Montreal: Industry pioneer and producer Pierre Lamy has died after a long illness. He was 72.

Lamy was a key figure in the financing of some two dozen Quebec feature films during a 20-year period starting in the early ’60s. He received the Prix Albert-Tessier in 1981 from the Quebec government and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Air Canada award for career contribution in 1982.

He and brother Andre Lamy cofounded one of Quebec’s first independent production companies, Onyx Films, in 1962, and Les Productions Carle-Lamy in association with filmmaker Gilles Carle in 1973.

Lamy produced the Radio-Canada drama series Radisson in the mid-’50s. His filmography includes Carle’s Les Males, Claude Fournier’s Deux femmes en or, the first significant Quebec box-office success, and Claude Jutra’s Kamouraska, an early coproduction with France.