Gordon Pinsent

Highest Rated: 100% Al Purdy Was Here (2015)

Lowest Rated: 43% Pippi Longstocking (1997)

Birthday: Jul 12, 1930

Birthplace: Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada

Gordon Pinsent is one of Canada's busiest and most recognizable character actors. Many viewers remember Pinsent as the President of the United States in Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969). Kids have heard him as the voice of the title character in the animated HBO series Babar (1989-93). Pinsent's other weekly TV roles have included Sergeant Scott in The Forest Rangers (1964), the title character in Quentin Dergens MP (1966), Hap Shaughnessy in Red Green (1990- ) and Sergeant Frazer in Due South (1994-95). Gordon Pinsent has also occasionally written and directed, performing both functions in the 1968 Canadian feature film John and the Missus.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

		CREDIT
83%	Two Lovers and a Bear	Bear's voice Bear	—	2016
No Score Yet	Pirate's Passage	Harry Freelove	—	2015
100%	Al Purdy Was Here	Actor	—	2015
59%	The Grand Seduction	Simon	—	2014
No Score Yet	Sex After Kids	Dr. Keaton	—	2014
67%	Big News From Grand Rock	Actor	—	2014
100%	Flight of the Butterflies	Dr. Fred Urquhart	—	2012
No Score Yet	Babar And The Adventures Of Badou	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	At Home, by Myself... with You	Narrator	—	2009
94%	Away From Her	Grant Andersson	$15.9M	2007
No Score Yet	The Good Shepherd	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Ambulance Girl	Pete	—	2005
64%	Saint Ralph	Father Fitzpatrick	$0.7M	2005
No Score Yet	H2O (H2O: The Last Prime Minister)	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Fallen Angel	Warren Wentworth	—	2003
50%	Nothing	Man in Suit	—	2003
55%	The Shipping News	Billy Pretty	$11.5M	2001
No Score Yet	Blind Terror	Martin Howell	—	2001
No Score Yet	The Old Man and the Sea	Old Man	—	1999
43%	Pippi Longstocking	Capt. Longstocking	—	1997
No Score Yet	Pale Saints	Gus	—	1997
No Score Yet	Christmas in My Hometown, (A Holiday for Love)	Cal	—	1996
No Score Yet	A Vow to Kill	Frank Waring	—	1995
No Score Yet	Bonds of Love	Leon	—	1993
No Score Yet	In the Eyes of a Stranger	Lt. Ted Burk	—	1992
No Score Yet	Blood Clan	Actor	—	1991
No Score Yet	Desert Blades - The Escape from Iran	Actor	—	1990
No Score Yet	Babar - The Movie	King Babar	—	1989
No Score Yet	Horse Latitudes	Actor	—	1988
No Score Yet	John and the Missus	Director John Munn Screenwriter	—	1987
No Score Yet	A Case of Libel	Actor	—	1983
No Score Yet	Silence of the North	John Fredrickson	—	1981
No Score Yet	Devil at Your Heels	Narrator	—	1981
No Score Yet	Klondike Fever	Actor	—	1980
No Score Yet	Who has Seen the Wind	Gerald O'Connal	—	1977
No Score Yet	Newman's Law	Eastman	—	1974
48%	Blacula	Peters	—	1972
No Score Yet	The Rowdyman	Will Cole	—	1972
No Score Yet	Incident on a Dark Street	The Mayor	—	1972
No Score Yet	Chandler	Melchior	—	1971
88%	Colossus: The Forbin Project	The President	—	1970
77%	The Thomas Crown Affair	Jamie MacDonald	—	1968
No Score Yet	Don't Forget to Wipe the Blood Off	Actor	—	1968

TV

		CREDIT
86%	Pillars of the Earth 2010	The Archbishop	2011 2010
No Score Yet	Babar 1989-2000	Voice	2006 2002 1991 1990 1989
No Score Yet	Relic Hunter 1999-2002	Jimmy Jonesboro	1999
No Score Yet	Due South 1994-1998	Fraser Sr. Sgt. Robert "Bob" Fraser (Ghost)	1997 1996 1995 1994
No Score Yet	American Playhouse 1982-1996	Corcoran	1986
No Score Yet	Hogan's Heroes 1965-1971	Steiner	1970
No Score Yet	It Takes a Thief 1968-1970	Lockridge	1969
No Score Yet	Republic of Doyle 2010-2014	Maurice Becker

QUOTES FROM Gordon Pinsent CHARACTERS

Vera	Wouldn't be too much, would it, if I asked what in the name of God you're doing in our bed?
Murray French	Sorry. I know it's after office hours.
Vera	It's not so much the time that bothers me, as the fact that we're all here in bed together. It's the whole threesome thing I'm not that comfortable with.
Simon	Now, now, he doesn't drop by that often.

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