Gordon Pinsent
Birthday
1930/07/12
Day of death
2023/02/25 (92 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Also know as
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Biography
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1968) The Thomas Crown Affair
as Jamie
(2007) Away from Her
as Grant
(2004) The Good Shepherd
as Cardinal Ledesna
(2003) Nothing
as Man In Suit
(1972) Blacula
as Lt. John "Jack" Peters
(2021) Back Home Again
as Jack Rabbit (voice)
(1989) Babar: The Movie
as King Babar
(1970) Colossus: The Forbin Project
as The President
(1999) The Old Man and the Sea
as Old Man (voice)
(1981) The Devil at Your Heels
as Narrator (Voice)
(1996) A Holiday for Love
as Cal Marsdon
(2003) Fallen Angel
as Warren Wentworth
(2011) An Unlikely Obsession
as Narrator (voice)
(2009) The Spine
as Dan Rutherford
(1971) Chandler
as John Melchior
(1970) Quarantined
as Dr. Bud Bedford
(1992) A Passage from Burnt Islands
as Narrator (voice)
(2012) Flight of the Butterflies
as Dr Fred Urquhart
(2012) Life Doesn't Frighten Me
as Francis Weary
(2009) At Home by Myself... with You
as Narrator (voice)
(2014) The Grand Seduction
as Simon
(2013) Sex After Kids
as Dr. Keaton
(1977) The Suicide's Wife
as Allan Crane
(1976) Blackwood
as Narrator
(2011) Still Rowdy After All These Years
as Self
(1994) Due South
as Fraser Sr.
(2008) The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together
as Hap Shaughnessy
(2005) Saint Ralph
as ---
(1980) Klondike Fever
as Swiftwater Bill
(2012) Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
as Elder Stephen Leacock / Narrator
(2001) The Shipping News
as Billy Pretty
(2006) The Sparky Book
as Goldfish
(1975) Horse Latitudes
as Donald Crowhurst
(1981) Silence of the North
as John Frederickson
(1975) The Time of the Tar Sands
as ---
(2005) Ambulance Girl
as Pete
(1974) Newman's Law
as Jack Eastman
(1992) In the Eyes of a Stranger
as Lt. Ted Burk
(2015) Pirate's Passage
as Harry the Barber (voice)
(1997) Pale Saints
as Gus
(1981) Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
as Ambassador Ken Taylor
(1983) A Case of Libel
as Dennis Corcoran
(2003) Hemingway vs. Callaghan
as Morley Callaghan
(1977) Who Has Seen the Wind
as Gerald O'Connal
(1982) The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd
as Edwin Boyd
(1993) Bonds of Love
as Leon
(1990) Blood Clan
as Judge William McKay
(2006) Heyday!
as Monroe Gillette
(2015) Big News From Grand Rock
as ---
(2016) Two Lovers and a Bear
as Bear (voice)
(1972) The Rowdyman
as Will Cole
(2017) The River of My Dreams
as ---
(1951) Newfoundland Scene
as Himself
(1987) John and the Missus
as John Munn
(2001) Blind Terror
as Martin Howell
(2008) Mysteries of the Great Lakes
as Narrator
(1973) Incident on a Dark Street
as Joe - Mayor
(1995) A Vow to Kill
as Frank Waring
(1974) Only God Knows
as John Hagan
(2020) Age of Dysphoria
as Fred
(1997) Pippi Longstocking
as Capt. Efraim Longstocking (voice)
(2002) A Diary Between Friends
as Narrator
(1975) The Heatwave Lasted Four Days
as Cliff Reynolds
(2009) Playing the Machines
as Narrator
(2006) Angela's Eyes
as ---
(1993) Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
as Ken Collins
(2004) Corner Gas
as Corky Dillems
(1989) Babar
as King Babar (voice)
(1994) Due South
as Fraser Sr. (voice)
(1987) Friday the 13th: The Series
as Desmond Williams
(2001) Blue Murder
as ---
(2002) Puppets Who Kill
as ---
(1965) Hogan's Heroes
as S.S. Capt. Steiner
(2014) The Polar Sea
as ---
(1971) Cannon
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Vicomte de Valvert
(1963) The Forest Rangers
as Sgt. Brian Scott
(1998) Power Play
as ---
(2009) The Listener
as Accident Victim
(1995) The Outer Limits
as Dr. Steven Molstad
(2010) The Pillars of the Earth
as Archbishop
(2010) Babar and the Adventures of Badou
as King Babar (voice)
(1997) Pippi Longstocking
as Captain Longstocking
(1999) Relic Hunter
as Jimmy Jonesboro
(1968) It Takes a Thief
as Gerald Lockridge
(1985) Danger Bay
as Pete Bartlett
(2004) H2O
as Michael Cameron
(1991) The Red Green Show
as Hap Shaughnessy
(2010) Republic of Doyle
as Maurice Becker
(2009) The Listener
as Accident Victim / Frank Cardea
(1971) Sarge
as Stone
(1970) Dan August
as Frank Fairley
(1965) Seaway
as Coffin
(1969) Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Dr. Joseph Xavier
(1960) The Nature of Things
as Dr. Fred Urquhart
(1965) Seaway
as Grainger
(1977) For The Record
as ---
(1994) Due South
as Fraser Sr.
(2016) Private Eyes
as Nevin Ainslie
(1972) Banacek
as John Weymouth