
Gordon Pinsent
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 …
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Filmography
Acting (101)
Movies (66)
Back Home Again
2021as Jack Rabbit (voice)
Age of Dysphoria
2020as Fred
The River of My Dreams
2017
Two Lovers and a Bear
2016as Bear (voice)
Where Once They Mattered
2015as Narrator
Pirate's Passage
2015as Harry the Barber (voice)
Big News From Grand Rock
2015
The Grand Seduction
2014as Simon
Sex After Kids
2013as Dr. Keaton
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
2012as Francis Weary
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
2012as Elder Stephen Leacock / Narrator
Flight of the Butterflies
2012as Dr Fred Urquhart
Still Rowdy After All These Years
2011as Self
An Unlikely Obsession
2011as Narrator (voice)
Playing the Machines
2009as Narrator
The Spine
2009as Dan Rutherford
At Home by Myself... with You
2009as Narrator (voice)
Mysteries of the Great Lakes
2008as Narrator
The Red Green Story: We're All in This Together
2008as Hap Shaughnessy
Away from Her
2007as Grant
The Sparky Book
2006as Goldfish
Heyday!
2006as Monroe Gillette
Saint Ralph
2005
Ambulance Girl
2005as Pete
The Good Shepherd
2004as Cardinal Ledesna
Fallen Angel
2003as Warren Wentworth
Nothing
2003as Man In Suit
Hemingway vs. Callaghan
2003as Morley Callaghan
A Diary Between Friends
2002as Narrator
The Shipping News
2001as Billy Pretty
Blind Terror
2001as Martin Howell
The Old Man and the Sea
1999as Old Man (voice)
Pale Saints
1997as Gus
A Holiday for Love
1996as Cal Marsdon
A Vow to Kill
1995as Frank Waring
Due South
1994as Fraser Sr.
Bonds of Love
1993as Leon
In the Eyes of a Stranger
1992as Lt. Ted Burk
A Passage from Burnt Islands
1992as Narrator (voice)
Blood Clan
1990as Judge William McKay
Babar: The Movie
1989as King Babar
John and the Missus
1987as John Munn
A Case of Libel
1983as Dennis Corcoran
The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd
1982as Edwin Boyd
Silence of the North
1981as John Frederickson
The Devil at Your Heels
1981as Narrator (Voice)
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
1981as Ambassador Ken Taylor
Klondike Fever
1980as Swiftwater Bill
The Suicide's Wife
1979as Allan Crane
Who Has Seen the Wind
1977as Gerald O'Connal
Blackwood
1976as Narrator
A Gift To Last
1976as Sgt. Edgar Sturgess
The Time of the Tar Sands
1975
Horse Latitudes
1975as Donald Crowhurst
The Heatwave Lasted Four Days
1975as Cliff Reynolds
Only God Knows
1974as John Hagan
Newman's Law
1974as Jack Eastman
Incident on a Dark Street
1973as Joe - Mayor
Blacula
1972as Lt. John "Jack" Peters
The Rowdyman
1972as Will Cole
Chandler
1971as John Melchior
Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970as The President
Quarantined
1970as Dr. Bud Bedford
The Thomas Crown Affair
1968as Jamie
Cyrano De Bergerac
1962as Vicomte de Valvert
Newfoundland Scene
1951as Himself
Television (35)
Private Eyes
2016as Nevin Ainslie
The Polar Sea
2014
The Pillars of the Earth
2010as Archbishop
Babar and the Adventures of Badou
2010as King Babar (voice)
Republic of Doyle
2010as Maurice Becker
The Listener
2009as Accident Victim
Angela's Eyes
2006
Corner Gas
2004as Corky Dillems
H2O
2004as Michael Cameron
Puppets Who Kill
2002
Blue Murder
2001
Relic Hunter
1999as Jimmy Jonesboro
Made in Canada
1998as Walter Franklin, Sr.
Power Play
1998
Pippi Longstocking
1997as Captain Longstocking
The Outer Limits
1995as Dr. Steven Molstad
Due South
1994as Fraser Sr.
Due South
1994as Fraser Sr. (voice)
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993as Ken Collins
The Red Green Show
1991as Hap Shaughnessy
Babar
1989as King Babar (voice)
Friday the 13th: The Series
1987as Desmond Williams
Danger Bay
1985as Pete Bartlett
For the Record
1976
Banacek
1972as John Weymouth
Cannon
1971
Sarge
1971as Stone
Dan August
1970as Frank Fairley
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969as Dr. Joseph Xavier
It Takes a Thief
1968as Gerald Lockridge
Hogan's Heroes
1965as S.S. Capt. Steiner
Seaway
1965as Coffin
The Forest Rangers
1963as Sgt. Brian Scott
The Nature of Things
1960as Dr. Fred Urquhart
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Vicomte de Valvert
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