Gordon Pinsent
Birthday: 1930-07-12
Place of Birth: Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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 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.
Movies
The Thomas Crown Affair
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional age...
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Away from Her
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absen...
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The Good Shepherd
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter...
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Nothing
The film tells the story of two good friends who live together, Andrew, an agoraphobic travel agent ...
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Blacula
An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries l...
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Back Home Again
An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,00...
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Babar: The Movie
Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen...
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Colossus: The Forbin Project
The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designe...
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The Devil at Your Heels
Devil at Your Heels, traces the trials of stuntman Ken Carter who attempts a death-defying aerial ju...
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A Holiday for Love
A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the ...
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Fallen Angel
When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay on...
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The Spine
A poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped...
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Quarantined
A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and...
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A Passage from Burnt Islands
In his crusade for literacy, principal Ray Brown enlisted the help of the community and broke throug...
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Flight of the Butterflies
It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, ...
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Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Insecure thirteen year-old Esther Weary is on the brink of puberty and must come to terms with the r...
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At Home by Myself... with You
A multi phobia-plagued single woman who hasn't left her apartment in six years finds her carefully o...
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The Grand Seduction
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When un...
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Sex After Kids
A disparate variety of couples from all walks of life strive to maintain active sex lives despite th...
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The Suicide's Wife
An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, ...
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Blackwood
This short film studies the works of one of Canada's greatest contemporary etchers - Newfoundland-bo...
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Still Rowdy After All These Years
A documentary retrospective on the prolific career of acclaimed Canadian actor, writer and director ...
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Due South
The movie that the TV series was spun off from. When a legendary Canadian Mountie is murdered, his ...
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The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together
This behind-the-scenes special features cast members musing over public television's beloved "The Re...
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Saint Ralph
This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy...
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Klondike Fever
This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1...
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on th...
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The Shipping News
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to rec...
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The Sparky Book
In Newfoundland filmmaker Mary Lewis' live action/animation hybrid short film, a talking goldfish te...
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Horse Latitudes
Based on the true story of Philip Stockton, a 40 year old Englishman, who would have done almost any...
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Silence of the North
Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman...
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The Time of the Tar Sands
A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, "The time of the tar sands", featuri...
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Ambulance Girl
The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression ...
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Newman's Law
LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when figh...
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In the Eyes of a Stranger
An overworked woman encounters a pair of armed robbers on the subway home. When one of them is kille...
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Pirate's Passage
Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pir...
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Pale Saints
Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they...
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Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats e...
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A Case of Libel
Fact-based courtroom drama about a news reporter in 1954 who sued a columnist for libel after he pro...
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Hemingway vs. Callaghan
'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and ...
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The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd
Based on fact, this is the story of a notorious Canadian bank-robbery gang....
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Who Has Seen the Wind
The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. Th...
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Bonds of Love
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relatio...
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Blood Clan
A family is executed by soldiers for cannibalism - except for the little girl, Katy Bane McKay. She ...
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Heyday!
During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the s...
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Big News From Grand Rock
A small town journalist's fabricated stories attracts unwanted attention when one of them turns out ...
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Two Lovers and a Bear
Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Luc...
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The Rowdyman
Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choic...
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The River of My Dreams
Director Brigitte Berman profiles Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent, who left Newfoundland in the late 19...
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Newfoundland Scene
A portrait of Newfoundland that records a way of life that has all but disappeared....
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John and the Missus
A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. On...
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Blind Terror
After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent at...
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Mysteries of the Great Lakes
Through several interlocking stories, including the story of maritime commerce and the ships that mo...
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Incident on a Dark Street
A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring....
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A Vow to Kill
Rachel is the daughter of a wealthy media tycoon. Her husband dies in a car crash. Years later she m...
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Only God Knows
The sponsors of a drug-rehabilitation center stage a robbery to maintain funding of the facility, bu...
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Age of Dysphoria
A young woman tracks down an elderly man in order to make amends for the tragedy that devastated his...
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Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking is an extraordinary little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father sa...
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A Diary Between Friends
When American citizens were stranded in Canada on 9/11, their northern neighbors opened their doors....
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The Heatwave Lasted Four Days
A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip ...
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Playing the Machines
Video lottery addiction is a serious problem in Canada, but does the government's need for revenue m...
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Where Once They Mattered
Twenty ponies of an endangered breed are facing death from neglect and abandonment. A horse hauling ...
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