Gordon Pinsent
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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Movies (75)
Back Home Again
2021 · Jack Rabbit (voice)
Age of Dysphoria
2020 · Fred
The River of My Dreams
2017
Two Lovers and a Bear
2016 · Bear (voice)
Where Once They Mattered
2015 · Narrator
Big News From Grand Rock
2015
Pirate's Passage
2015 · Harry the Barber (voice)
La gran seducción
2014 · Simon
Sex After Kids
2013 · Dr. Keaton
Nuts Nothing and Nobody
2013 · English narrator
Flight of the Butterflies
2012 · Dr Fred Urquhart
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
2012 · Francis Weary
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
2012 · Elder Stephen Leacock / Narrator
Still Rowdy After All These Years
2011 · Self
An Unlikely Obsession
2011 · Narrator (voice)
At Home by Myself... with You
2009 · Narrator (voice)
The Spine
2009 · Dan Rutherford
Playing the Machines
2009 · Narrator
The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together
2008 · Hap Shaughnessy
Mysteries of the Great Lakes
2008 · Narrator
Away from Her
2007 · Grant
Heyday!
2006 · Monroe Gillette, Director, Writer
The Sparky Book
2006 · Goldfish
Ambulance Girl
2005 · Pete
Saint Ralph
2005
The Good Shepherd
2004 · Cardinal Ledesna
Nothing
2003 · Man In Suit
Hemingway vs. Callaghan
2003 · Morley Callaghan
Fallen Angel
2003 · Warren Wentworth
Stranded Yanks: A Diary Between Friends
2002 · Narrator
Atando cabos
2001 · Billy Pretty
Blind Terror
2001 · Martin Howell
The Old Man and the Sea
1999 · Old Man (voice)
Win, Again!
1999 · Win Morrissey, Writer
Pale Saints
1997 · Gus
Pippi Longstocking
1997 · Captain Longstocking (voice)
A Holiday for Love
1996 · Cal Marsdon
Kids for Character
1996 · King Babar(archive footage) (voice)
A Vow to Kill
1995 · Frank Waring
Due South
1994 · Fraser Sr.
Bonds of Love
1993 · Leon
In the Eyes of a Stranger
1992 · Lt. Ted Burk
A Passage from Burnt Islands
1992 · Narrator (voice)
Blood Clan
1990 · Judge William McKay
Babar: The Movie
1989 · King Babar
Two Men
1988 · Director
John and the Missus
1987 · John Munn, Director, Writer
A Case of Libel
1983 · Dennis Corcoran
The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd
1982 · Edwin Boyd
A Far Cry From Home
1981 · Director
Silence of the North
1981 · John Frederickson
Once
1981 · Director
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
1981 · Ambassador Ken Taylor
The Devil at Your Heels
1981 · Narrator (Voice)
Klondike Fever
1980 · Swiftwater Bill
The Suicide's Wife
1979 · Allan Crane
Drága kisfiam!
1978
Who Has Seen the Wind
1977 · Gerald O'Connal
A Gift To Last
1976 · Sgt. Edgar Sturgess
Blackwood
1976 · Narrator
The Time of the Tar Sands
1975
The Heatwave Lasted Four Days
1975 · Cliff Reynolds
Horse Latitudes
1975 · Donald Crowhurst
Only God Knows
1974 · John Hagan
Newman's Law
1974 · Jack Eastman
Back to Beulah
1974 · Host
Incident on a Dark Street
1973 · Joe - Mayor
Blacula
1972 · Lt. John "Jack" Peters
The Rowdyman
1972 · Will Cole, Writer
Chandler
1971 · John Melchior
Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 · The President
Quarantined
1970 · Dr. Bud Bedford
The Thomas Crown Affair
1968 · Jamie
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962 · Vicomte de Valvert
Newfoundland Scene
1951 · Himself
TV shows (37)
Private Eyes
2016 · Nevin Ainslie
The Polar Sea
2014
Babar y las aventuras de Badou
2010 · King Babar (voice)
The Pillars of the Earth
2010 · Archbishop
Republic of Doyle
2010 · Maurice Becker
The Listener
2009 · Accident Victim, Accident Victim / Frank Cardea
Angela's Eyes
2006
H2O
2004 · Michael Cameron
Corner Gas
2004 · Corky Dillems
Puppets Who Kill
2002
Blue Murder
2001
Cazatesoros
1999 · Jimmy Jonesboro
Power Play
1998
Made in Canada
1998 · Walter Franklin, Sr.
Pippi Longstocking
1997 · Captain Longstocking
The Outer Limits
1995 · Dr. Steven Molstad
Due South
1994 · Fraser Sr. (voice), Fraser Sr.
Kung Fu: la leyenda continúa
1993 · Ken Collins
The Red Green Show
1991 · Hap Shaughnessy
The Hidden Room
1991 · Abraham Stone
Babar
1989 · King Babar (voice)
Friday the 13th: The Series
1987 · Desmond Williams
Danger Bay
1985 · Pete Bartlett
American Playhouse
1982 · Dennis Corcoran
For the Record
1976 · Director
Banacek
1972 · John Weymouth
Cannon
1971
Sarge
1971 · Stone
Dan August
1970 · Frank Fairley
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969 · Dr. Joseph Xavier
It Takes a Thief
1968 · Gerald Lockridge
Hogan's Heroes
1965 · S.S. Capt. Steiner
Seaway
1965 · Coffin, Grainger
The Forest Rangers
1963 · Sgt. Brian Scott
The Nature of Things
1960 · Dr. Fred Urquhart
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Vicomte de Valvert
Up at Ours
· Creator