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
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
as Jamie
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
as The President
Away from Her (2007)
as Grant
The Shipping News (2001)
as Billy Pretty
The Grand Seduction (2014)
as Simon
Pippi Longstocking (1997)
as Captain Longstocking (voice)
Two Lovers and a Bear (2016)
as Bear (voice)
Back Home Again (2021)
as Jack Rabbit (voice)
The Good Shepherd (2004)
as Cardinal Ledesna
Who Has Seen the Wind (1977)
as Gerald O'Connal
Blacula (1972)
as Lt. John "Jack" Peters
Klondike Fever (1980)
as Swiftwater Bill
Drága kisfiam! (1978)
Actor
Incident on a Dark Street (1973)
as Joe - Mayor
Chandler (1971)
as John Melchior
Pirate's Passage (2015)
as Harry the Barber (voice)
The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
as Old Man (voice)
A Holiday for Love (1996)
as Cal Marsdon
John and the Missus (1987)
as John Munn
Due South (1994)
as Fraser Sr.
Saint Ralph (2005)
Actor
The Devil at Your Heels (1981)
as Narrator (Voice)
Flight of the Butterflies (2012)
as Dr Fred Urquhart
Nothing (2003)
as Man In Suit
Babar: The Movie (1989)
as King Babar
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper (1981)
as Ambassador Ken Taylor
A Case of Libel (1983)
as Dennis Corcoran
Silence of the North (1981)
as John Frederickson
In the Eyes of a Stranger (1992)
as Lt. Ted Burk
The Heatwave Lasted Four Days (1975)
as Cliff Reynolds
Newman's Law (1974)
as Jack Eastman
Sex After Kids (2013)
as Dr. Keaton
Kids for Character (1996)
as King Babar(archive footage) (voice)
Big News From Grand Rock (2015)
Actor
A Vow to Kill (1995)
as Frank Waring
Horse Latitudes (1975)
as Donald Crowhurst
The River of My Dreams (2017)
Actor
The Suicide's Wife (1979)
as Allan Crane
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (2012)
as Elder Stephen Leacock / Narrator
At Home by Myself... with You (2009)
as Narrator (voice)
Hemingway vs. Callaghan (2003)
as Morley Callaghan
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (2012)
as Francis Weary
Still Rowdy After All These Years (2011)
as Self
Where Once They Mattered (2015)
as Narrator
Heyday! (2006)
as Monroe Gillette
Newfoundland Scene (1951)
as Himself
Ambulance Girl (2005)
as Pete
A Gift To Last (1976)
as Sgt. Edgar Sturgess
The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together (2008)
as Hap Shaughnessy
Only God Knows (1974)
as John Hagan
Quarantined (1970)
as Dr. Bud Bedford
Fallen Angel (2003)
as Warren Wentworth
Cyrano De Bergerac (1962)
as Vicomte de Valvert
Bonds of Love (1993)
as Leon
Win, Again! (1999)
as Win Morrissey
The Spine (2009)
as Dan Rutherford
Mysteries of the Great Lakes (2008)
as Narrator
A Diary Between Friends (2002)
as Narrator
Nuts Nothing and Nobody (2013)
as English narrator
Pale Saints (1997)
as Gus
Blind Terror (2001)
as Martin Howell
Age of Dysphoria (2020)
as Fred
Blood Clan (1990)
as Judge William McKay
The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd (1982)
as Edwin Boyd
An Unlikely Obsession (2011)
as Narrator (voice)
The Sparky Book (2006)
as Goldfish
Back to Beulah (1974)
as Host
A Passage from Burnt Islands (1992)
as Narrator (voice)
The Time of the Tar Sands (1975)
Actor
The Rowdyman (1972)
as Will Cole
Playing the Machines (2009)
as Narrator
Blackwood (1976)
as Narrator