Gordon Pinsent
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Gordon Edward Pinsent CC FRSC (July 12, 1930 – February 25, 2023) was a Canadian actor, writer, director, and singer. He began his career in the 1940s, delving into radio dramas before serving in the Canadian Army. His extensive four-decade-long career spans stage, TV, and film, starring in notable works like "Quentin Durgens MP," "The Rowdyman," and "Power Play." He's received numerous awards, including ACTRA, GENIE, and GEMINI Awards, and earned honoraries from several universities. Pinsent's skills extend to writing; his novels inspired feature films, and he penned his memoirs, "By the Way." He shared a close friendship with Marlon Brando, often enjoying drive-in movies with Brando's family.
Known for
Credits
Drága kisfiam! (1978)
Actor
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
as Jamie
Two Lovers and a Bear (2016)
as Bear (voice)
The Shipping News (2001)
as Billy Pretty
Away from Her (2007)
as Grant
Chandler (1971)
as John Melchior
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
as The President
The River of My Dreams (2017)
Actor
Blacula (1972)
as Lt. John "Jack" Peters
Due South (1994)
as Fraser Sr.
The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
as Old Man (voice)
The Grand Seduction (2014)
as Simon
Fallen Angel (2003)
as Warren Wentworth
Sex After Kids (2013)
as Dr. Keaton
Newman's Law (1974)
as Jack Eastman
Kids for Character (1996)
as King Babar(archive footage) (voice)
Horse Latitudes (1975)
as Donald Crowhurst
Babar: The Movie (1989)
as King Babar
The Good Shepherd (2004)
as Cardinal Ledesna
Pirate's Passage (2015)
as Harry the Barber (voice)
Saint Ralph (2005)
Actor
Incident on a Dark Street (1973)
as Joe - Mayor
Only God Knows (1974)
as John Hagan
A Holiday for Love (1996)
as Cal Marsdon
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (2012)
as Francis Weary
Where Once They Mattered (2015)
as Narrator
Newfoundland Scene (1951)
as Himself
Klondike Fever (1980)
as Swiftwater Bill
A Case of Libel (1983)
as Dennis Corcoran
Ambulance Girl (2005)
as Pete
Hemingway vs. Callaghan (2003)
as Morley Callaghan
Nothing (2003)
as Man In Suit
Back Home Again (2021)
as Jack Rabbit (voice)
Bonds of Love (1993)
as Leon
Win, Again! (1999)
as Win Morrissey
Flight of the Butterflies (2012)
as Dr Fred Urquhart
Silence of the North (1981)
as John Frederickson
Blind Terror (2001)
as Martin Howell
Cyrano De Bergerac (1962)
as Vicomte de Valvert
Quarantined (1970)
as Dr. Bud Bedford
Mysteries of the Great Lakes (2008)
as Narrator
Heyday! (2006)
as Monroe Gillette
The Suicide's Wife (1979)
as Allan Crane
At Home by Myself... with You (2009)
as Narrator (voice)
The Spine (2009)
as Dan Rutherford
The Devil at Your Heels (1981)
as Narrator (Voice)
Who Has Seen the Wind (1977)
as Gerald O'Connal
Back to Beulah (1974)
as Host
Age of Dysphoria (2020)
as Fred
In the Eyes of a Stranger (1992)
as Lt. Ted Burk
Pale Saints (1997)
as Gus
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (2012)
as Elder Stephen Leacock / Narrator
The Heatwave Lasted Four Days (1975)
as Cliff Reynolds
The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together (2008)
as Hap Shaughnessy
John and the Missus (1987)
as John Munn
A Diary Between Friends (2002)
as Narrator
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper (1981)
as Ambassador Ken Taylor
A Vow to Kill (1995)
as Frank Waring
A Gift To Last (1976)
as Sgt. Edgar Sturgess
The Rowdyman (1972)
as Will Cole
The Sparky Book (2006)
as Goldfish
An Unlikely Obsession (2011)
as Narrator (voice)
Playing the Machines (2009)
as Narrator
The Time of the Tar Sands (1975)
Actor
A Passage from Burnt Islands (1992)
as Narrator (voice)
Blood Clan (1990)
as Judge William McKay
Still Rowdy After All These Years (2011)
as Self
Big News From Grand Rock (2015)
Actor
The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd (1982)
as Edwin Boyd
Blackwood (1976)
as Narrator