Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC (born July 12, 1930) is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor.
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Gordon Pinsent Biography / Wiki
| Name | Gordon Pinsent |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
| Date of Birth | 1930-07-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 92 |
| Deathday |
Gordon Pinsent Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Away from Her | Grant | 2007-05-04 | A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer’s disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another m… |
| Babar: The Movie | King Babar | 1989-07-28 | Children’s book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff’s most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch Ki… |
| The Devil At Your Heels | Narrator (Voice) | 1981-03-13 | Devil at Your Heels, traces the trials of stuntman Ken Carter who attempts a death defying aerial jump in a car. Not content with a normal jump, Ken C… |
| The Spine | Dan Rutherford | 2009-06-08 | A poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction after 26 years … |
| Blackwood | Narrator | 1976-01-01 | This short film studies the works of one of Canada’s greatest contemporary etchers – Newfoundland-born David Blackwood. The artist himself guides view… |
| Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | Elder Stephen Leacock / Narrator | 2012-02-12 | Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously l… |
| Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper | Ambassador Ken Taylor | 1981-05-17 | A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution…. |
| The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd | Edwin Boyd | 1982-09-18 | Based on fact, this is the story of a notorious Canadian bank-robbery gang…. |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Old Man (voice) | 1999-07-03 | An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life…. |
| The Rowdyman | Will Cole | 1972-05-18 | Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices. He lives and behaves as if he was still 18, wo… |
| The River of My Dreams | 2017-01-27 | Director Brigitte Berman profiles Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent, who left Newfoundland in the late 1940s to launch a storied, seven-decade career as on… | |
| John and the Missus | John Munn | 1987-10-23 | A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine–the town’s only source of income–is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stu… |
| Mysteries of the Great Lakes | Narrator | 2008-01-01 | Through several interlocking stories, including the story of maritime commerce and the ships that move cargo through the inland waterway, Mysteries of… |
| Only God Knows | 1974-09-13 | The sponsors of a drug-rehabilitation center stage a robbery to maintain funding of the facility, but the loot turns out to be syndicate-owned…. | |
| A Diary Between Friends | Narrator | 2002-01-01 | When American citizens were stranded in Canada on 9/11, their northern neighbors opened their doors…. |
| The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days | Cliff Reynolds | 1975-04-28 | A TV news cameraman’s appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler…. |
| The Time of the Tar Sands | 1975-08-01 | A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, “The time of the tar sands”, featuring Gordon Pinsent. credit: Archives of Alberta…. | |
| Flight of the Butterflies | Dr Fred Urquhart | 2012-10-01 | It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one “supergeneration” that makes the 2,0… |
| Life Doesn’t Frighten Me | Francis Weary | 2012-05-22 | Insecure thirteen year-old Esther Weary is on the brink of puberty and must come to terms with the realities of becoming a woman with her well-meaning… |
| The Suicide’s Wife | Allan Crane | 1977-11-07 | An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for… |
| Silence of the North | John Frederickson | 1981-10-23 | Director Allan King’s 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the Cana… |
| Newfoundland Scene | Himself | 1951-01-02 | A portrait of Newfoundland that records a way of life that has all but disappeared…. |
| Nothing | Man In Suit | 2003-09-09 | The film tells the story of two good friends who live together, Andrew, an agoraphobic travel agent who works from his home, and Dave, a loser who wor… |
| Colossus: The Forbin Project | The President | 1970-04-08 | Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America’s nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it dete… |
| Fallen Angel | Warren Wentworth | 2003-03-23 | When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet… |
| The Grand Seduction | Simon | 2014-05-30 | A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis la… |
| The Red Green Story: We’re All in This Together | Hap Shaughnessy | 2008-12-01 | This behind-the-scenes special features cast members musing over public television’s beloved “The Red Green Show,” the wacky sketch series revolving a… |
| Ambulance Girl | Pete | 2005-09-12 | The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic…. |
| Who Has Seen the Wind | Gerald O’Connal | 1977-04-20 | The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O’Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O’Connal, Bri… |
| Hemingway vs. Callaghan | Morley Callaghan | 2003-03-31 | ‘Hemingway vs. Callaghan’ is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto and Paris between 1923… |
| Blood Clan | Judge William McKay | 1990-08-30 | A Scottish girl is being adopted by the judge who has condemned all the members of her family to death. But as she remembers all of this she commits a… |
| Two Lovers and a Bear | Bear (voice) | 2016-10-02 | Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a l… |
| A Vow to Kill | Frank Waring | 1995-02-01 | Rachel is the daughter of a wealthy media tycoon. Her husband dies in a car crash. Years later she meets Eric a photographer for New Woman magazine. T… |
| Due South | Fraser Sr. | 1994-04-23 | The movie that the TV series was spun off from. When a legendary Canadian Mountie is murdered, his son (and fellow RCMP) Constable Benton Fraser foll… |
| The Good Shepherd | Cardinal Ledesna | 2004-03-21 | When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name…. |
| Newman’s Law | Jack Eastman | 1974-08-21 | LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty … |
| Quarantined | Dr. Bud Bedford | 1970-02-24 | A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and other difficulties like a movie star who refuses … |
| Saint Ralph | 2005-08-05 | This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and – at times – goofy story that becomes increasingly poignant as the m… | |
| In the Eyes of a Stranger | Lt. Ted Burk | 1992-04-07 | An overworked woman encounters a pair of armed robbers on the subway home. When one of them is killed, apparently as he divulges the location of some … |
| Chandler | John Melchior | 1971-12-01 | A private eye is hired to follow a mobster’s former mistress…. |
| Blacula | Lt. John “Jack” Peters | 1972-08-25 | An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various r… |
| Age of Dysphoria | Fred | 2020-02-14 | A young woman tracks down an elderly man in order to make amends for the tragedy that devastated his life…. |
| Pippi Longstocking | Capt. Longstocking (voice) | 1997-08-20 | Pippi is a little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father is sailing the seas. With Pippi we meet her horse, her monkey and her two friend… |
| Pale Saints | Gus | 1997-01-01 | Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mo… |
| Bonds of Love | Leon | 1993-01-24 | A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship…. |
| Big News From Grand Rock | 2015-02-27 | A small town journalist’s fabricated stories attracts unwanted attention when one of them turns out to be true…. | |
| Blind Terror | Martin Howell | 2001-04-23 | After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her… |
| Pirate’s Passage | Harry the Barber (voice) | 2015-01-04 | Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pirates – Pirate’s Passage follows the story of… |
| The Thomas Crown Affair | Jamie McDonald | 1968-06-26 | Young businessman, Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However… |
| A Holiday for Love | Cal Marsdon | 1996-12-10 | A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsi… |
| Klondike Fever | Swiftwater Bill | 1980-01-12 | This movie chronicles Jack London’s epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898…. |
| The Shipping News | Billy Pretty | 2001-12-18 | An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life…. |
| Heyday! | Monroe Gillette | 2006-03-27 | During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North Ameri… |
| Sex After Kids | Dr. Keaton | 2013-01-26 | A disparate variety of couples from all walks of life strive to maintain active sex lives despite the notable distraction of having kids…. |
| Back Home Again | Jack Rabbit (voice) | 2021-10-28 | An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta’s history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes…. |
| Incident on a Dark Street | Joe – Mayor | 1973-01-13 | A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring…. |
Gordon Pinsent Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Heyday! | Director | 2006-03-27 | During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North Ameri… |
| John and the Missus | Director | 1987-10-23 | A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine–the town’s only source of income–is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stu… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Heyday! | Writer | 2006-03-27 | During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North Ameri… |
| John and the Missus | Writer | 1987-10-23 | A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine–the town’s only source of income–is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stu… |
| The Rowdyman | Writer | 1972-05-18 | Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices. He lives and behaves as if he was still 18, wo… |
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