Gordon Pinsent
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1930-07-12
Locus Natus: Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Et ut:
The Thomas Crown Affair
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job....
release : 1968.06.26popularis : 15.356
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 a symptom of...
release : 2007.05.04popularis : 14.373
The Good Shepherd
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.
release : 2004.03.21popularis : 9.877
Nothing
The film tells the story of two good friends who live together, Andrew, an agoraphobic travel agent who works from his home, and Dave, a loser who...
release : 2003.09.09popularis : 8.232
Blacula
An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various...
release : 1972.08.25popularis : 7.495
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.
release : 2021.10.28popularis : 2.488
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 tale. Elephant monarch...
release : 1989.07.28popularis : 6.772
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 Forbin. It soon...
release : 1970.04.08popularis : 9.59
The Old Man and the Sea
An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.
release : 1999.07.03popularis : 12.361
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. Not content with a normal jump, Ken...
release : 1981.03.13popularis : 5.65
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 town with jobs should get the boot when the...
release : 1996.12.10popularis : 3.84
Fallen Angel
When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate....
release : 2003.03.23popularis : 4.428
The Spine
A poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction after 26 years...
release : 2009.06.08popularis : 1.47
Chandler
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
release : 1971.12.01popularis : 2.389
Quarantined
A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and other difficulties like a movie star who refuses...
release : 1970.02.24popularis : 4.429
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 illiteracy in a small Newfoundland...
release : 1992.03.01popularis : 1.597
Flight of the Butterflies
It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the...
release : 2012.10.01popularis : 6.509
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 becoming a woman with her...
release : 2012.05.22popularis : 0.631
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 her hot new...
release : 2009.10.06popularis : 1.077
The Grand Seduction
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis...
release : 2014.05.30popularis : 11.792
Sex After Kids
A disparate variety of couples from all walks of life strive to maintain active sex lives despite the notable distraction of having kids.
release : 2013.01.26popularis : 2.557
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 who blames her...
release : 1977.11.07popularis : 2.202
Blackwood
This short film studies the works of one of Canada's greatest contemporary etchers - Newfoundland-born David Blackwood. The artist himself guides...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 0.886
Still Rowdy After All These Years
A documentary retrospective on the prolific career of acclaimed Canadian actor, writer and director Gordon Pinsent.
release : 2011.09.09popularis : 0.353
Due South
The movie that the TV series was spun off from. When a legendary Canadian Mountie is murdered, his son (and fellow RCMP) Constable Benton Fraser...
release : 1994.04.23popularis : 0.741
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...
release : 2008.12.01popularis : 2.671
Saint Ralph
This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy story that becomes increasingly poignant as the...
release : 2005.08.05popularis : 8.496
Klondike Fever
This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.
release : 1980.01.12popularis : 1.955
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 Wissanotti with its notoriously...
release : 2012.02.12popularis : 2.436
The Shipping News
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
release : 2001.12.18popularis : 11.589
The Sparky Book
In Newfoundland filmmaker Mary Lewis' live action/animation hybrid short film, a talking goldfish tells us the poignant story of his best friend,...
release : 2006.01.01popularis : 1.214
Horse Latitudes
Based on the true story of Philip Stockton, a 40 year old Englishman, who would have done almost anything to be the first man to sail around the...
release : 1975.01.01popularis : 0.99
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 her family in the...
release : 1981.10.23popularis : 2.299
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: Archives of Alberta.
release : 1975.08.01popularis : 1.66
Ambulance Girl
The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
release : 2005.09.12popularis : 2.527
Newman's Law
LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty...
release : 1974.08.21popularis : 2.472
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 as he divulges the location of some...
release : 1992.04.07popularis : 2.518
Pirate's Passage
Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pirates – Pirate’s Passage follows...
release : 2015.01.04popularis : 2.339
Pale Saints
Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the...
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 0.794
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 during the Iranian Revolution.
release : 1981.05.17popularis : 2.551
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 communist in print.
release : 1983.10.17popularis : 1.255
Hemingway vs. Callaghan
'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto and Paris between...
release : 2003.03.31popularis : 1.184
The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd
Based on fact, this is the story of a notorious Canadian bank-robbery gang.
release : 1982.09.18popularis : 0.088
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 O'Connal,...
release : 1977.04.20popularis : 2.129
Bonds of Love
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.
release : 1993.01.24popularis : 2.665
Blood Clan
A family is executed by soldiers for cannibalism - except for the little girl, Katy Bane McKay. She is adopted by Judge Mackay and goes home with him...
release : 1990.08.30popularis : 8.147
Heyday!
During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North...
release : 2006.03.27popularis : 2.763
Big News From Grand Rock
A small town journalist's fabricated stories attracts unwanted attention when one of them turns out to be true.
release : 2015.02.27popularis : 1.727
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, two burning souls who come together to make a...
release : 2016.10.02popularis : 8.985
The Rowdyman
Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices. He lives and behaves as if he was still 18,...
release : 1972.05.18popularis : 2.157
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 career as...
release : 2017.01.27popularis : 0.616
Newfoundland Scene
A portrait of Newfoundland that records a way of life that has all but disappeared.
release : 1951.01.02popularis : 0.932
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 wrath of the townsmen when he...
release : 1987.10.23popularis : 2.041
Blind Terror
After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be...
release : 2001.04.23popularis : 2.309
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, Mysteries...
release : 2008.01.01popularis : 2.139
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.
release : 1973.01.13popularis : 3.369
A Vow to Kill
Rachel is the daughter of a wealthy media tycoon. Her husband dies in a car crash. Years later she meets Eric a photographer for New Woman magazine....
release : 1995.02.01popularis : 2.652
Only God Knows
The sponsors of a drug-rehabilitation center stage a robbery to maintain funding of the facility, but the loot turns out to be syndicate-owned.
release : 1974.09.13popularis : 2.076
Age of Dysphoria
A young woman tracks down an elderly man in order to make amends for the tragedy that devastated his life.
release : 2020.02.14popularis : 2.667
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking is an extraordinary little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father sails the seven seas. Pippi's irrepressibly fun...
release : 1997.08.20popularis : 9.859
A Diary Between Friends
When American citizens were stranded in Canada on 9/11, their northern neighbors opened their doors.
release : 2002.01.01popularis : 1.171
The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days
A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.
release : 1975.04.28popularis : 3.87