Gordon Pinsent

Q: Has Gordon Pinsent won any awards?

Yes, Gordon Pinsent has received numerous awards, including a Gemini Award for his work on television and the prestigious Order of Canada for his contributions to the arts.

Q: What was Gordon Pinsent's first film?

Gordon Pinsent's first film was 'The Rowdyman' in 1972, which he also directed and wrote, showcasing his multifaceted talent in the industry.

Q: What are some of his most successful films?

Some of Gordon Pinsent's most successful films include 'Away from Her', 'The Rowdyman', and 'The Great Seduction', each highlighting his exceptional acting skills.

Q: What is known about Gordon Pinsent's personal life?

Gordon Pinsent has been married to Heather McNair since 1970 and has three children. He values family and often speaks about the importance of personal connections.

Q: What is Gordon Pinsent's estimated net worth?

Gordon Pinsent's estimated net worth is around 1 million USD, reflecting his long and successful career in the entertainment industry.

Q: Can you list some milestones in Gordon Pinsent's filmography?

Notable milestones in Gordon Pinsent's filmography include his role in 'Away from Her', which brought him international recognition, and his contributions to Canadian cinema through various films and television shows.

Q: How has Gordon Pinsent influenced Canadian cinema?

Gordon Pinsent has significantly influenced Canadian cinema by portraying complex characters and bringing attention to Canadian stories, inspiring many actors and filmmakers in the industry.

Known for

The Grand Seduction (2013)

IMDb 7 / 10

2013 / Comedy / 108mins

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis...

Name

Gordon Pinsent

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Born

12 April 1930, Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Spouses

Heather McNair (1970–present)

Children

3 children, including Leah Pinsent and Barry Pinsent

Parents

Gordon Pinsent Sr. and Jessie Pinsent

Estimated Net Worth

1 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2021	Movie Back Home Again An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes.	Jack Rabbit (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2020	Movie Age of Dysphoria A young woman tracks down an elderly man in order to make amends for the tragedy that devastated his life.	Fred	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2017	Movie The River of My Dreams Director Brigitte Berman profiles Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent, who left Newfoundland in the late 1940s to launch a storied, seven-decade...	Unknown character	Not rated
2016	Movie Two Lovers and a Bear Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy,...	Bear (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2016	TV Private Eyes Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form...	Nevin Ainslie	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2015	Movie Where Once They Mattered Twenty ponies of an endangered breed are facing death from neglect and abandonment. A horse hauling team attempts a cross-continent...	Narrator	Not rated
2015	Movie Big News From Grand Rock A small town journalist's fabricated stories attracts unwanted attention when one of them turns out to be true.	Unknown character	Not rated
2015	Movie Pirate's Passage Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port...	Harry the Barber (voice)	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2014	TV The Polar Sea The Polar Sea is a 10 part television series that follows an incredible amateur expedition through the fabled Northwest Passage...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie The Grand Seduction A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big...	Simon	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2013	Movie Sex After Kids A disparate variety of couples from all walks of life strive to maintain active sex lives despite the notable distraction...	Dr. Keaton	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2012	Movie Flight of the Butterflies It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one...	Dr Fred Urquhart	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie Life Doesn't Frighten Me Insecure thirteen year-old Esther Weary is on the brink of puberty and must come to terms with the realities of...	Francis Weary	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2012	Movie Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake...	Elder Stephen Leacock / Narrator	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2011	Movie Still Rowdy After All These Years A documentary retrospective on the prolific career of acclaimed Canadian actor, writer and director Gordon Pinsent.	Self	Not rated
2011	Movie An Unlikely Obsession	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2010	TV Babar and the Adventures of Badou An updated version of the classic series, following King Babar, and Badou, his 8-year-old grandson.	King Babar (voice)	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2010	TV The Pillars of the Earth A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a...	Archbishop	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2010	TV Republic of Doyle Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing...	Maurice Becker	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2009	Movie At Home by Myself... with You A multi phobia-plagued single woman who hasn't left her apartment in six years finds her carefully organized existence disrupted by...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2009	Movie The Spine A poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a...	Dan Rutherford	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	TV The Listener Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his...	Accident Victim / Frank Cardea	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2009	TV The Listener Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his...	Accident Victim	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2009	Movie Playing the Machines Video lottery addiction is a serious problem in Canada, but does the government's need for revenue mean the enormous social...	Narrator	Not rated
2008	Movie 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 Red Green Show," the wacky sketch series revolving...	Hap Shaughnessy	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2008	Movie Mysteries of the Great Lakes Through several interlocking stories, including the story of maritime commerce and the ships that move cargo through the inland waterway,...	Narrator	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	Movie Away from Her Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is...	Grant	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2006	TV Angela's Eyes FBI agent Angela Clinton has the exceptional gift of knowing when someone is lying. She discovered this skill at age...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2006	Movie Heyday! During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for...	Monroe Gillette	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2006	Movie The Sparky Book In Newfoundland filmmaker Mary Lewis' live action/animation hybrid short film, a talking goldfish tells us the poignant story of his...	Goldfish	Not rated
2005	Movie Ambulance Girl The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.	Pete	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2005	Movie Saint Ralph This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy story...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	TV H2O H2O is a Canadian political drama two-part miniseries that first aired on the CBC Television October 31, 2004. It starred...	Michael Cameron	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2004	Movie The Good Shepherd When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his...	Cardinal Ledesna	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2004	TV Corner Gas Following the adventures of a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional...	Corky Dillems	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	Movie Nothing After a terrible day, two good friends and housemates find the outside world converted into a featureless and empty white...	Man In Suit	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2003	Movie Hemingway vs. Callaghan 'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto...	Morley Callaghan	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	Movie Fallen Angel When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long...	Warren Wentworth	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2002	TV Puppets Who Kill Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2002	Movie A Diary Between Friends When American citizens were stranded in Canada on 9/11, their northern neighbors opened their doors.	Narrator	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Shipping News An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.	Billy Pretty	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2001	Movie Blind Terror After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman...	Martin Howell	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2001	TV Blue Murder Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1999	TV Relic Hunter Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the...	Jimmy Jonesboro	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1999	Movie The Old Man and the Sea An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.	Old Man (voice)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1999	Movie Win, Again! When accused of a major crime years ago, a man went on the run. Now that he has been exonerated...	Win Morrissey	Not rated
1998	TV Power Play Power Play was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1998	TV Made in Canada Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer...	Walter Franklin, Sr.	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1997	TV Pippi Longstocking With tons of optimism, and strength to match, fun-loving 9-year-old Pippi Longstocking resides at rustic Villa Villekulla with her pet...	Captain Longstocking	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1997	Movie Pale Saints Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that...	Gus	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1996	Movie A Holiday for Love A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies...	Cal Marsdon	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1996	Movie Kids for Character Kids for Character was a program that was released on VHS in April 23, 1996. It was a charity special...	King Babar(archive footage) (voice)	Not rated
1995	TV The Outer Limits Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements...	Dr. Steven Molstad	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1995	Movie A Vow to Kill Rachel is the daughter of a wealthy media tycoon. Her husband dies in a car crash. Years later she meets...	Frank Waring	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1994	TV Due South Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with...	Fraser Sr.	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1994	TV Due South Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with...	Fraser Sr. (voice)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1994	Movie Due South The movie that the TV series was spun off from. When a legendary Canadian Mountie is murdered, his son (and...	Fraser Sr.	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1993	TV Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an...	Ken Collins	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1993	Movie Bonds of Love A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.	Leon	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1992	Movie In the Eyes of a Stranger An overworked woman encounters a pair of armed robbers on the subway home. When one of them is killed, apparently...	Lt. Ted Burk	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1992	Movie A Passage from Burnt Islands In his crusade for literacy, principal Ray Brown enlisted the help of the community and broke through the cycle of...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1991	TV The Red Green Show The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home...	Hap Shaughnessy	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1991	TV The Hidden Room The Hidden Room is an American drama-horror anthology television series. Geared mainly towards women, it aired on Lifetime for 33 episodes from 1991...	Abraham Stone	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1990	Movie Blood Clan A family is executed by soldiers for cannibalism - except for the little girl, Katy Bane McKay. She is adopted...	Judge William McKay	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1989	Movie Babar: The Movie Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family...	King Babar	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1989	TV Babar Inspired by Jean de Brunhoff and Laurent de Brunhoff's beloved children's books, this animated series tells Babar's life story from...	King Babar (voice)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1987	Movie John and the Missus A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the...	John Munn	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1987	TV Friday the 13th: The Series Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them...	Desmond Williams	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1985	TV Danger Bay Danger Bay is a Canadian television series, produced in Vancouver, with first-run episodes broadcast on CBC Television and the Disney...	Pete Bartlett	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1983	Movie A Case of Libel Fact-based courtroom drama about a news reporter in 1954 who sued a columnist for libel after he proclaimed him a...	Dennis Corcoran	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1982	Movie The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd Based on fact, this is the story of a notorious Canadian bank-robbery gang.	Edwin Boyd	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1982	TV American Playhouse American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.	Dennis Corcoran	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1981	Movie Silence of the North Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with...	John Frederickson	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1981	Movie Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran...	Ambassador Ken Taylor	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1981	Movie The Devil at Your Heels Devil at Your Heels, traces the trials of stuntman Ken Carter who attempts a death-defying aerial jump in a car....	Narrator (Voice)	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1980	Movie Klondike Fever This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.	Swiftwater Bill	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1979	Movie The Suicide's Wife An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son...	Allan Crane	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1978	Movie Drága kisfiam!	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1977	Movie Who Has Seen the Wind The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald...	Gerald O'Connal	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1976	Movie A Gift To Last A Christmas special about an elderly man looking back at life during the turn of the century in Ontario. His...	Sgt. Edgar Sturgess	Not rated
1976	TV For the Record For the Record, an anthology of 60-to-90-minute dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. A...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1976	Movie Blackwood This short film studies the works of one of Canada's greatest contemporary etchers - Newfoundland-born David Blackwood. The artist himself...	Narrator	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1975	Movie The Time of the Tar Sands A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, "The time of the tar sands", featuring Gordon Pinsent. credit:...	Unknown character	Not rated
1975	Movie The Heatwave Lasted Four Days A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a...	Cliff Reynolds	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1975	Movie Horse Latitudes Based on the true story of Philip Stockton, a 40 year old Englishman, who would have done almost anything to...	Donald Crowhurst	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1974	Movie Only God Knows The sponsors of a drug-rehabilitation center stage a robbery to maintain funding of the facility, but the loot turns out...	John Hagan	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1974	Movie Newman's Law LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In...	Jack Eastman	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1974	Movie Back to Beulah The film is an adaptation of a play written by the celebrated Canadian author and playwright W.O. Mitchell. It follows...	Host	Not rated
1973	Movie 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.	Joe - Mayor	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1972	TV Banacek Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974....	John Weymouth	TMDB 8.4 / 10
1972	Movie Blacula An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his...	Lt. John "Jack" Peters	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1972	Movie The Rowdyman Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices....	Will Cole	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1971	Movie Chandler A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.	John Melchior	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1971	TV Sarge	Stone	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1971	TV Cannon Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3,...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1970	TV Dan August Dan August is a Quinn Martin crime drama series which aired on ABC from 1970-1971. The series stars Burt Reynolds...	Frank Fairley	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1970	Movie Colossus: The Forbin Project The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles...	The President	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1970	Movie Quarantined A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and other difficulties...	Dr. Bud Bedford	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1969	TV Marcus Welby, M.D. Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July...	Dr. Joseph Xavier	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1968	Movie The Thomas Crown Affair A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes that he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist--until he must match wits...	Jamie	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1968	TV It Takes a Thief Convicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his...	Gerald Lockridge	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1965	TV Hogan's Heroes Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971,...	S.S. Capt. Steiner	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1965	TV Seaway A ship owners’ agent investigates cases along the Saint Lawrence Seaway. SEAWAY is a Canadian drama series that aired on...	Grainger	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1965	TV Seaway A ship owners’ agent investigates cases along the Saint Lawrence Seaway. SEAWAY is a Canadian drama series that aired on...	Coffin	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1963	TV The Forest Rangers The Forest Rangers was a Canadian television series that ran from 1963 to 1965. It was a co-production between CBC...	Sgt. Brian Scott	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1962	Movie Cyrano De Bergerac The fiercely proud Cyrano may be the greatest swordsman in France - or the world - but he dares not...	Vicomte de Valvert	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1960	TV The Nature of Things The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6,...	Dr. Fred Urquhart	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Vicomte de Valvert	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1951	Movie Newfoundland Scene A portrait of Newfoundland that records a way of life that has all but disappeared.	Himself	TMDB 5.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2006	Movie Heyday! During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2006	Movie Heyday! During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1999	Movie Win, Again! When accused of a major crime years ago, a man went on the run. Now that he has been exonerated...	Writer Writing	Not rated
1988	Movie Two Men Years after surviving the Holocaust, Alex Koves sees Michael Barna, the man who killed his family, on the streets of...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1987	Movie John and the Missus A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1987	Movie John and the Missus A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1981	Movie A Far Cry From Home A woman struggles with her husband.	Director Directing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1981	Movie Once In a twist on the typical May-October romance, a widow somewhere in her 60s meets a naive country boy who...	Director Directing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1976	TV For the Record For the Record, an anthology of 60-to-90-minute dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. A...	Director Directing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1972	Movie The Rowdyman Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices....	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.0 / 10
TBA	TV Up at Ours This half-hour comedy/drama that centred on a St. John's boarding house. Verna Ball, played by Mary Walsh, owned the house,...	Creator Creator	TMDB 10.0 / 10

Back Home Again

2021 / TMDB 7.0

Age of Dysphoria

2020 / TMDB 2.0

The River of My Dreams

2017

Two Lovers and a Bear

2016 / TMDB 6.5

Where Once They Mattered

2015

Big News From Grand Rock

2015

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Gordon Pinsent's career highlights include starring in films like 'Away from Her', which earned him critical acclaim, and his long-running role in the television series 'The Red Green Show'.

Has Gordon Pinsent won any awards?

What was Gordon Pinsent's first film?

What are some of his most successful films?

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What is Gordon Pinsent's estimated net worth?

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How has Gordon Pinsent influenced Canadian cinema?