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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 fami…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Gordon Pinsent's Filmography
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Back Home Again
as Jack Rabbit (voice)
Age of Dysphoria
as Fred
The River of My Dreams
Two Lovers and a Bear
as Bear (voice)
Where Once They Mattered
as Narrator
Big News From Grand Rock
Pirate's Passage
as Harry the Barber (voice)
The Grand Seduction
as Simon
Sex After Kids
as Dr. Keaton
Nuts Nothing and Nobody
as English narrator
Flight of the Butterflies
as Dr Fred Urquhart
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
as Francis Weary
No Poster
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
as Elder Stephen Leacock / Narrator
Still Rowdy After All These Years
as Self
An Unlikely Obsession
as Narrator (voice)
At Home by Myself... with You
as Narrator (voice)
The Spine
as Dan Rutherford
Playing the Machines
as Narrator
No Poster
The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together
as Hap Shaughnessy
Mysteries of the Great Lakes
as Narrator
Away from Her
as Grant
Heyday!
as Monroe Gillette
The Sparky Book
as Goldfish
Ambulance Girl
as Pete
Saint Ralph
The Good Shepherd
as Cardinal Ledesna
Nothing
as Man In Suit
No Poster
Hemingway vs. Callaghan
as Morley Callaghan
Fallen Angel
as Warren Wentworth
A Diary Between Friends
as Narrator
The Shipping News
as Billy Pretty
Blind Terror
as Martin Howell
The Old Man and the Sea
as Old Man (voice)
No Poster
Win, Again!
as Win Morrissey
No Poster
Pale Saints
as Gus
Pippi Longstocking
as Captain Longstocking (voice)
A Holiday for Love
as Cal Marsdon
Kids for Character
as King Babar(archive footage) (voice)
A Vow to Kill
as Frank Waring
Due South
as Fraser Sr.
Bonds of Love
as Leon
In the Eyes of a Stranger
as Lt. Ted Burk
A Passage from Burnt Islands
as Narrator (voice)
Blood Clan
as Judge William McKay
Babar: The Movie
as King Babar
John and the Missus
as John Munn
A Case of Libel
as Dennis Corcoran
No Poster
The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd
as Edwin Boyd
Silence of the North
as John Frederickson
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
as Ambassador Ken Taylor
The Devil at Your Heels
as Narrator (Voice)
Klondike Fever
as Swiftwater Bill
The Suicide's Wife
as Allan Crane
Drága kisfiam!
Who Has Seen the Wind
as Gerald O'Connal
No Poster
A Gift To Last
as Sgt. Edgar Sturgess
Blackwood
as Narrator
No Poster
The Time of the Tar Sands
The Heatwave Lasted Four Days
as Cliff Reynolds
Horse Latitudes
as Donald Crowhurst
Only God Knows
as John Hagan
Newman's Law
as Jack Eastman
No Poster
Back to Beulah
as Host
Incident on a Dark Street
as Joe - Mayor
Blacula
as Lt. John "Jack" Peters
The Rowdyman
as Will Cole
Chandler
as John Melchior
Colossus: The Forbin Project
as The President
Quarantined
as Dr. Bud Bedford
The Thomas Crown Affair
as Jamie
No Poster
Cyrano De Bergerac
as Vicomte de Valvert
Newfoundland Scene
as Himself