Gordon Pinsent

Over a decades-long career, he brought 'men of humour, men of dignity, men of strength and men of compassion' to life.

He credited his daughter Leah, also an actress, and her husband, the actor Peter Keleghan, for keeping him going and encouraging him to get back to work. “No, no Lear for me …” he wrote in 2012, rejecting the traditional last role for many a great actor and arguing he was unlikely to bring anything new to it. He had no formal training as an actor, just the conviction that he was one, and describes his restless urge to work as a continual drive to prove he wasn’t as useless as he’d felt as a kid. In Toronto, he worked both for the CBC and on the theatre scene, where he met his second wife, actress Charmion King, playing the title role in The Mad Woman of Chaillot at the Crest Theatre in 1961. According to his own account of his divorce, it was a judge who ruled he should never see the children, then aged five and three, so as to give Irene a fresh start. Each week, his character tackled another issue or came to the aid of another constituent, and the actor soon found that, when he travelled, Canadians would approach him with requests to fix their local problems. But by then he had lost his real-life wife: King had succumbed to emphysema early in 2007, right in the midst of Away From Her’s triumph. The youngest Pinsent suffered from rickets as a child, didn’t walk until he was five and went to school a year late: in his 2012 autobiography Next, he speculated that the experience of that delay taught him from an early age how to fake it. He loved painting as a boy and was enamoured of the movies, knowing the names of all the Hollywood stars who appeared on the silver screen in Grand Falls. At 15, he left home to live with his married sister in Gander where he took a job as a busboy at a local hotel in the hopes that he would come across real movie stars changing planes on their way across the Atlantic. Eventually, he met up with John Hirsch, the founding director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, and began performing in his more ambitious productions. “We got the Mountie and we got the beaver.

Canadian acting icon Gordon Pinsent has died at age 92, his family shared in a statement on Saturday evening.

The Newfoundland native has been a household name for decades, known for his many appearances on stage and screen.

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L'acteur canadien Gordon Pinsent est mort à l'âge de 92 ans, a confirmé son ami, l'acteur Mark Critch, lors d'un entretien téléphonique avec La Presse ...

La carrière de Gordon Pinsent a atteint son apogée bien au-delà de ses 70 ans avec une performance primée dans le rôle d’un mari au cœur brisé dans le film Loin d’elle (Away From Her). L’acteur s’est fait connaître à l’échelle internationale après son rôle de Grant, lauréat d’un prix Génie, dans le premier film acclamé de la réalisatrice Sarah Polley. (Montréal) L’acteur canadien Gordon Pinsent est mort à l’âge de 92 ans, a confirmé son ami, l’acteur Mark Critch, lors d’un entretien téléphonique avec La Presse Canadienne.

Known for his performances in The Rowdyman, The Shipping News, Babar and others, Pinsent was 92.

He was a consummate professional - and it was really special getting to watch someone with such depth of craft and experience up close. A joy to watch whether he was making you laugh or cry. Gordon Pinsent was absolutely wonderful in everything he was in. Gordon Pinsent once told me that the role he played that got him the most attention and fans was in CBC’s “Babar”. He went to Canada as an immigrant, and he never stopped looking over his shoulder to see if you needed a hand along the way,” Critch said. That was his nickname when he was just a kid who loved the picture shows and dreamed of being in them. I wasn’t going to go to the good food bank.” In an interview last year with SaltWire Network about “The Rowdyman,” his seminal 1972 award-winning film, Pinsent described the movie as a turning point in his career. In a career spanning seven decades, he acted in every great Canadian show you can think of, & many great movies.— Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx (@CraigBaird) I looked up to him as the Rowdyman but loved him as Porky Pinsent from Grand Falls. A native of Grand Falls, Pinsent began as a stage actor before turning to television and later film. “He was still talking of the work yet to be done.

Pinset died on Saturday evening at age 92, his friend actor Mark Critch confirmed. The Newfoundland native, a household name in Canada for decades after his ...

But for all the outpouring of praise and admiration for Pinsent in the wake of “Away From Her,” movie offers didn’t come pouring in after its release. president in the Milos Forman film, “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” Pinsent and King lived in L.A. It’s that lovely thing where you get that zone, that peak of joy, and it reminds you of why you started it all.” “I began to write from that place, from that perspective. So I decided to hang out down there for awhile, but it was because I started to write that I came back,” he recalled. “I had a chance to sell it down there but didn’t. She described her father as her “truest inspiration and one of my best friends” at the event. Pinsent also had memorable roles in “Who Has Seen The Wind” and “The Shipping News,” a major Hollywood production starring Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett. I tried that as a younger man and didn’t like it very much.” And then I said: ‘All the better for sneaking up on the baby seals!’ And she wasn’t too happy about that.” “She didn’t have much convincing to do,” Pinsent said in an interview in February 2007. Possessing a deep baritone, Pinsent also took on roles in radio drama on the CBC, and before long moved on to film and television too.

Le natif de Terre-Neuve est un nom familier au Canada depuis des décennies, connu pour ses nombreuses apparitions sur scène et à l'écran. M. Critch a dit que ...

La carrière de Gordon Pinsent a atteint son apogée bien au-delà de ses 70 ans avec une performance primée dans le rôle d'un mari au cœur brisé dans le film Loin d'elle (Away From Her en version originale). L'acteur canadien Gordon Pinsent est décédé à l'âge de 92 ans, a confirmé son ami, l'acteur Mark Critch, lors d'un entretien téléphonique avec La Presse Canadienne. L’acteur canadien, originaire de Terre-Neuve, Gordon Pinsent est décédé à 92 ans

Gordon Pinsent, l'acteur canadien adoré dont la carrière a atteint son apogée dans ses 70 ans avec une performance primée en tant que mari au cœur brisé ...

Mais malgré tout le flot d’éloges et d’admiration pour Pinsent à la suite de “Away From Her”, les offres de films n’ont pas afflué après sa sortie. “J’ai en quelque sorte besoin d’y aller souvent”, a déclaré Pinsent. Alors j’ai décidé de traîner là-bas un moment, mais c’est parce que j’ai commencé à écrire que je suis revenu », se souvient-il. « J’ai eu l’occasion de le vendre là-bas, mais je ne l’ai pas fait. “Elle n’avait pas grand-chose à convaincre”, a déclaré Pinsent dans une interview en février 2007. “Je suppose que si j’étais là-bas à marteler le trottoir et les salles de travail, il pourrait y en avoir d’autres à venir, mais ce n’est tout simplement pas moi”, a déclaré Pinsent. Pinsent a également eu des rôles mémorables dans “Who Has Seen The Wind” et “The Shipping News”, une production hollywoodienne majeure mettant en vedette Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore et Cate Blanchett. Elle a décrit son père comme sa « véritable inspiration et l’un de mes meilleurs amis » lors de l’événement. Et puis j’ai dit : “C’est tant mieux d’avoir faufilé les bébés phoques !” Et elle n’était pas trop contente de ça. Mais le jeu d’acteur est resté son véritable amour, et il est devenu un pilier de certaines émissions pour enfants au début des années 1960, dont « The Forest Rangers » de CBC. Mais à l’âge de 17 ans, Pinsent, auparavant timide, découvre le théâtre et se produit bientôt dans des productions scéniques à Terre-Neuve, puis plus loin, à Winnipeg. Le CV du film de Pinsent était tout aussi impressionnant.

The prolific Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, known for everything from Babar to Due South to his internationally lauded performance in Sarah Polley's Away ...

Pinsent was also a painter, a writer, a playwright and a director. "And I think a lot of it was because you believed him." "And artists like Gordon ... Two of his Newfoundland-set novels, The Rowdyman and John and the Missus, were turned into feature films. "My whole career has depended on the happiness that I get when asked to do something," Pinsent said in a 2010 Toronto Life interview. I looked up to him as the Rowdyman but loved him as Porky Pinsent from Grand Falls. "And that colour of Gordon Pinsent going through and through the tapestry is now inevitably part of any story of Canada for me." But acting was his true love. how do you prepare? Where do you go, the leftover?" Pinsent joined the Stratford Festival in 1962 with roles in Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest and Cyrano de Bergerac, and he returned to Stratford in the mid-'70s as a leading player. I saw him a few weeks ago, his twinkle as bright as ever.

Gordon Pinsent, the adored Canadian actor whose career hit its peak well into his 70s with an award-winning performance as the heartbroken husband in “Away ...

But for all the outpouring of praise and admiration for Pinsent in the wake of “Away From Her,” movie offers didn’t come pouring in after its release. president in the Milos Forman film, “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” Pinsent and King lived in L.A. It’s that lovely thing where you get that zone, that peak of joy, and it reminds you of why you started it all.” “I began to write from that place, from that perspective. So I decided to hang out down there for awhile, but it was because I started to write that I came back,” he recalled. “I had a chance to sell it down there but didn’t. She described her father as her “truest inspiration and one of my best friends” at the event. Pinsent also had memorable roles in “Who Has Seen The Wind” and “The Shipping News,” a major Hollywood production starring Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett. I tried that as a younger man and didn’t like it very much.” And then I said: ‘All the better for sneaking up on the baby seals!’ And she wasn’t too happy about that.” “She didn’t have much convincing to do,” Pinsent said in an interview in February 2007. Possessing a deep baritone, Pinsent also took on roles in radio drama on the CBC, and before long moved on to film and television too.

Newfoundland and Labrador has lost an icon of the silver screen. Gordon Pinsent died on Saturday. He was 92. H...

He made us cry. He made us laugh. His family confirmed his passing on social media.

The Newfoundland native discovered acting around age 17 and went on to win an Oscar.

But for all the outpouring of praise and admiration for Pinsent in the wake of “Away From Her,” movie offers didn’t come pouring in after its release. president in the Milos Forman film, “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” Pinsent and King lived in L.A. It’s that lovely thing where you get that zone, that peak of joy, and it reminds you of why you started it all.” “I began to write from that place, from that perspective. So I decided to hang out down there for awhile, but it was because I started to write that I came back,” he recalled. “I had a chance to sell it down there but didn’t. She described her father as her “truest inspiration and one of my best friends” at the event. Pinsent also had memorable roles in “Who Has Seen The Wind” and “The Shipping News,” a major Hollywood production starring Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett. I tried that as a younger man and didn’t like it very much.” And then I said: ‘All the better for sneaking up on the baby seals!’ And she wasn’t too happy about that.” “She didn’t have much convincing to do,” Pinsent said in an interview in February 2007. Possessing a deep baritone, Pinsent also took on roles in radio drama on the CBC, and before long moved on to film and television too.