Gordon PinsentFilmography

Away From Her

Actors: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: Filmmaker Atom Egoyan -- a longtime onscreen collaborator with the gifted young actress Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) -- executive-produced Polley's directorial debut, Away from Her, starring Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, and Wendy Crewson. Adapted by Polley from a short Read More

Saint Ralph

Actors: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer Tilly, Shauna MacDonald

Synopsis: A young man with big dreams sets out to do the seemingly impossible in this bittersweet comedy drama. Ralph Walker (Adam Butcher) is a 14-year-old boy growing up in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1954. Ralph is convinced he's cut out to do something remarkable some day, but he hasn't quite decided what Read More

Ambulance Girl

Actors: Kathy Bates, Robin Thomas, Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: Academy Award-nominee Kathy Bates (Misery, Fried Green Tomatoes) helms and stars in Ambulance Girl - her third directorial credit on a made-for-television feature. Produced by and originally aired on Lifetime Television, Bates's comedy concerns Jane Stern (Bates), a housewife of thirty years who Read More

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The Confessor

Actors: Christian Slater, Molly Parker, Stephen Rea, Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: A priest caught in the middle of a deadly murder investigation must risk his life to prove the innocence of a fellow clergyman in a tense, religious-themed thriller directed by Lewin Webb and starring Christian Slater. Daniel Clemens (Slater) is a fallen priest who has lost his faith. Now a loyal Read More

Nothing

Actors: David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Marie-Josée Croze

Synopsis: Two roommates fed up with the outside world find that it's easier to avoid responsibility than they thought when a wish to make it all go away comes true in this mysterious tale from Cube director Vincenzo Natali. David (David Hewlett) and Andrew (Andrew Miller) are best friends with a grudge Read More

Fallen Angel

Synopsis: Successful LA attorney Terry McQuinn (Gary Sinise) returns to his Maine home town, intent upon settling the estate of his late, long-estranged father Mac (Michael Rhoades), then returning home as soon as possible. But once he has arrived, Terry finds that he is inexorably bound to his old house by Read More

The Shipping News

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx becomes this drama from director Lasse Hallström. Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a struggling, emotionally drained newspaper reporter suffering through a wretched marriage with the abusive Petal (Cate Blanchett), a promiscuous wild woman who tries Read More

Blind Terror

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Stewart Bick, Maxim Roy, Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: Nastassja Kinski stars in this taut thriller as Susan, a woman who is still coming to terms with the murder of her husband two years after his death. One day Susan meets an artist named Kevin (Stewart Bick) and the two hit it off; two months later, they impulsively fly to Las Vegas and get Read More

The Life and Times of Gordon Pinsent

The Old Man and the Sea

Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Kevin Delaye

Synopsis: Shot in the high-definition giant screen IMAX format, this animated feature is adapted from the classic short novel by Ernest Hemingway. An elderly Cuban fisherman, no longer as strong as he once was, takes to the water in hopes of catching a huge marlin and must deal with bad weather, sharks, and Read More

Pale Saints

Synopsis: Featuring a real granny knot of a complex plot, this violently hip, hyper-stylish crime thriller follows the exploits of Louis and Dody, two petty unemployed gangsters who get into deep trouble after they steal a job from a crime lord's cousin, whom they have already killed and stashed in the Read More

Pippi Longstocking

Actors: Melissa Altro, Catherine O'Hara, Carole Pope, Dave Thomas, Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: This animated musical is the newest incarnation of Astrid Lindgren's mischievous, magical Pippi Longstocking, the nine-year-old daughter of a sea captain whose adventures have delighted young readers, moviegoers and television fans for generations. The tale begins as Pippi sails the seas with her Read More

A Holiday for Love

Synopsis: Rising business executive Jake Peterson (Tim Matheson) is given a make-or-break assignment when he is sent to a small town for the purpose of severely downsizing the local tractor factory. Upon his arrival, Jake is mistaken by the townsfolk as the man sent to save rather than destroy their Read More

Due South: Bird in the Hand

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Lee Purcell

Synopsis: Assigned to protect a federal witness, Fraser (Paul Gross) learns to his chagrin that the man in question is Gerrard (Ken Pogue), who killed Fraser's father (Gordon Pinsent) back in Canada. With Gerrard at large in Chicago, Fraser is ordered to bring the fugitive back alive at all costs. As Fraser Read More

Due South: North

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Redge Green, Ramona Milano, David Calderisi

Synopsis: Ray (David Marciano) leaves Chicago to accompany Fraser (Paul Gross) to the latter's Canadian home turf, there to rebuild the cabin Fraser inherited from his late father. Unfortunately, the pilot hired to fly them to the Great White North is really a convicted felon, who bails out of the plane in Read More

Due South: Witness

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: When a witness against Ray's old nemesis Kruger (Aidan Devine) perjures herself in court, Ray (David Marciano) goes ballistic--and ends up being jailed for contempt. Reckoning that there are several incarcerated cons who have scores to settle with Ray, Fraser (Paul Gross) arranges to "protect" his Read More

Due South: The Edge

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Maria Rangel, Richard Yearwood

Synopsis: When Canadian mountie Fraser (Paul Gross) and American cop Ray (Raymond Vecchio) are assigned to protect their respective country's diplomats at a NAFTA convention, Fraser manages to run afoul of his Mexican counterpart, government agent Anita Cortez (Maria Therese Rangel). One mishap leads to Read More

Due South: Flashback

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: While pursuing a gang of diamond thieves and kidnappers, Fraser (Paul Gross) is thrown from a van and rendered unconscious. When he awakens, he realizes that his memory has been erased. As Fraser laboriously picks through his past (courtesy of filmclips from previous Due South episodes), hopes to Read More

Due South: All the Queen's Horses

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen makes a return appearance as "legendary" Canadian mountie Sgt. Buck Frobisher, as do Alex Carter and Mark Melymick as well-meaning but bumbling FBI agents Ford and Deeter. Frobisher is among a group of singing mounties on board a train bound for an American concert. These redcoated Read More

A Vow to Kill

Synopsis: After a car wreck claims the life of her beloved husband, socialite Rachel Waring finds solace in the arms of a handsome free-lance photographer. Warmed by his apparent sensitivity, Rachel falls in love and marries him. Unfortunately, they are no sooner on their honeymoon, when things start going Read More

Due South: The Deal

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: Shoemaker Joey Paducci (Rod Wilson) is arrested for stealing from a church collection box. It turns out that Paducci has been reduced to poverty by a gang of extortionists, headed by Frank Zuko (Jim Bracchita), childhood classmate and schoolyard tormentor of Detective Raymond Vecchio (David Read More

Due South: Victoria's Secret, Part 1

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Daniel Kash, Tony Craig

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Fraser (Paul Gross) is unexpectedly reunited with Victoria Metcalf (Melina Kanakaredes), the only woman he has ever truly loved--even though he'd been forced to arrest her the last time they met. Now, Victoria claims that she is being pursued by her former Read More

Due South: Victoria's Secret, Part 2

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Fraser's (Paul Gross) former lover Victoria (Melina Kanakeredes reveals her true colors when she kills her former partner Jolly (Denis Forest) and frames Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) on a charge of passing stolen money. But is it truly her Read More

Due South: The Blue Line

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Daniel Kash, Tony Craig

Synopsis: Rick Rossovich guest stars as Canadian pro hockey player Mark Smithbauer, an old friend of Benton Fraser (Paul Gross). Alas, Mark is not the Mark that Fraser remembers from his youth: Where once he played for love of the game, Smithbauer has become an arrogant, money-grubbing jerk. Even worse is Read More

Due South: Letting Go

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Daniel Kash, Tony Craig, Laurie Holden

Synopsis: Having been shot by his partner Ray (David Marciano) in the previous episode "Victoria's Secret", Fraser (Paul Gross) recuperates in the hospital. With plenty of time on his hands, Fraser tries to get over his duplicitious ex-lover Victoria (Melina Kanakaredes), and wonders if his friendship with Read More

Due South: The Gift of the Wheelman

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: Just before Christmas, Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) are put in charge of young Del Porter (Ryan Philippe), who claims to have witness a bank heist. In truth, Del is trying to shield his father William (James Purcell), the wheelman for a gang of bank robbers disguised as sidewalk Read More

Due South: Pilot

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Wendel Meldrum, Chuck Shamata, Joe Ziegler

Synopsis: Accompanied by his trusty pet wolf Diefenbaker, RCMP constable Benton Fraser doggedly pursues the murderer of his Mountie father (whose death has been officially deemed an "accident") from the snowy environs of the Yukon to the urban sprawl of Chicago. Once in the Windy City, Fraser meets Read More

Due South

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano

Synopsis: This Canadian made-for-television movie spawned the popular series about a crime-fighting Royal Canadian Mountie. Paul Gross stars as Constable Benton Fraser, an RCMP who sets out to track down his father's killer. His chase takes him all the way to Chicago where he hooks up with Ray Vecchio, (David Marciano Read More

In the Eyes of a Stranger

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Justine Bateman, Cynthia Dale, Gordon Pinsent, Colin Fox

Synopsis: After misplacing their stolen loot, thieves focus on an innocent woman whom they believe knows where it is. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Bonds of Love

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Grace Zabriskie, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: The Bonds of Love in this made-for-TV drama are those forged between divorcee Kelly McGillis and mentally disabled Treat Williams. What begins as a friendship between two lost souls blossoms into a deep and genuine romance. Their wedding plans are challenged by his mother (Grace Zabriskie) and Read More

Blood Clan

Actors: Michelle Little, Gordon Pinsent, Robert Wisden

Synopsis: After mysterious deaths occur in her Canadian community, Katy Bane is thought to be at the heart of it--as her father, Sawney Bane, was executed for the deaths of a thousand followers in Scotland. This feature is based on the true story of Katy Bane. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Desert Blades - The Escape from Iran

Babar: The Movie

Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Gavin Magrath, Elizabeth Hanna, Sarah Polley, Chris Wiggins

Synopsis: 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 King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his girlfriend Celeste save her village from the pugnacious Read More

Horse Latitudes

Two Men

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this drama, a well-respected Toronto businessman finds himself victimized by a vengeful Hungarian immigrant who believes that the entrepreneur killed his family at Auschwitz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

John and the Missus

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Jackie Burroughs, Randy Follett, Jessica Steen, Roland Hewgill

Synopsis: Veteran Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent handled the direction of John and the Missus. And who with better right? Pinsent also wrote the novel upon which his screenplay was based. John Munn (Pinsent) is a Newfoundland miner whose town faces extermination when the local copper mine is closed. Everyone Read More

A Case of Libel

Synopsis: A Case of Libel was adapted from the 1953 Broadway play by Henry Denker. The story was inspired by the real-life courtroom battle between journalists Quentin Reynolds and Westbrook Pegler. Gordon Pinsent plays a liberal news correspondent who has performed heroically in World War II. Nonetheless Read More

The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd

Actors: Peter Glen, Gordon Pinsent, Mary Ann McDonald, Jean-Marc Amyot, Domenic Tudino, Jack Langhorn

Synopsis: Made for television, The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd is a fact-based study of 1940s criminal activity, Canadian style. Gordon Pinsent stars as Boyd, leader of a notorious gang of thieves, cutthroats and pluguglies. Featured in the cast are Mary Ann McDonald as Boyd's wife and Peter Glen as Read More

Silence of the North

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer McKinney, Donna Dobrijevic

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this film follows the trials and tragedies that befall Walter Reamer (Tom Skerritt) and his wife, Olive (Ellen Burstyn), as they struggle to create a home and raise a family in the brutal Canadian frontier of 1919. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper

Synopsis: After the seizing of the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, six Americans manage to escape. They contact Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor (Gordon Pinsent), who keeps them hidden from the Iranian anti-US activists. For three grueling months, Taylor and his "guests" plan a daring escape. Read More

The Devil at Your Heels

Synopsis: Ken Carter is a Canadian daredevil driver who spent five years preparing a rocket-powered car so he could launch the car from a ramp and literally soar across a mile-wide section of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Due to the undeniably off-beat nature of Carter's fixation, director Robert Fortier found Read More

Klondike Fever

Actors: Jeff East, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson, Lorne Greene, Barry Morse

Synopsis: Jeff East stars as writer Jack London in this fictional adventure account that takes place during the Alaskan gold rush. London and his partner Robin (Merritt Sloper) clash with the villain Soapy Smith (Rod Steiger), a former priest turned bad who is equally mean to dogs and humans. That's Lorne Greene Read More

The Suicide's Wife

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman attempts to put together her shattered life after her husband inexplicably commits suicide. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Gift to Last [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Janet Amos, Mark Polley, Kate Parr, Ruth Springfield

Synopsis: Created by Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent as a potential TV vehicle for himself, A Gift to Last first aired as a one-off CBC special in 1976. Narrated by Melvyn Douglas, the program chronicled the lives and times of the Sturgess family, who lived in Tamarack, Ontario, at the turn of the century. On Read More

His Mother

Synopsis: A young man seeks to keep the bonds between his family together even after he emigrates from Hungary to Canada. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Who Has Seen the Wind?

Actors: Brian Painchaud, Douglas Junor, Gordon Pinsent, Chapelle Jaffe, José Ferrer

Synopsis: This drama is based on the classic novel by W. O. Mitchell. In the story, two boys (Brian Painchaud and Douglas Junor) growing up in the Depression a small Saskatchewan town, must confront the hard facts of life as they mature. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Great Canadian Culture Hunt [TV Series]

Actors: Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: Hosted by the ineluctable Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, this six-part documentary series certainly delivered on the promise of its title. Each 60-minute episode concentrated on a different and fascinating aspect of Canadian culture, education, politics, media, and performing arts. Innumerable Read More

The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days

Synopsis: A heroin smuggler gained an unexpected accomplice in the form of a weak TV newsman who loves wine, women and cars. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Only God Knows

Actors: Louis Tanno

Synopsis: A priest, a rabbi, and a minister are attempting to keep a financially-strapped drug rehab center open, when the last bit of funding disappears. Desperate, they approach a sickly Mafia don and offer to absolve him of his sins in exchange for cash. Unfortunately, he dies before he can get them the Read More

Newman's Law

Actors: Louis J. DiFonzo, Penelope Gillette, Wilbert Gowdy, Kirk Mee

Synopsis: 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 is put to the test when he and his partner discover a international drug ring involving some of the department's highest ranking officers. ~ Sandra Read More

Blacula

Actors: Eric Brotherson, William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala, Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: Advertised as the 100th production of American International studios, Blacula stars actor/singer William Marshall in the title role. An 18th century African prince, Blacula is transmogrified into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin to wreak havoc in Read More

Banacek: No Sign of the Cross

Synopsis: A priceless religious relic is transported from Mexico to LA under armed guard. As an added precaution, the case which contains the artifact is handcuffed to the wrist of a priest. Even so, the item vanishes before it reaches its destination. It's up to detective Banacek (George Peppard), a Read More

The Rowdyman

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Austin Davis, Estelle Wall

Synopsis: Sometimes it seems as though all the character roles in Canadian films have been played by Al Waxman, Chris Wiggins and Gordon Pinsent. It is Pinsent who functions as both star and coscripter of the modest character study Rowdyman. He plays a roustabout, libinous middle-ager who accidently causes Read More

Chandler

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, a private investigator falls for the former mistress of a racketeer who is slated to be a witness for the state. He is supposed to be quietly guarding her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Actors: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Leonid Rostoff

Synopsis: The granddaddy of all "computer run amok" films, Colossus: The Forbin Project concerns a huge electronic brain designed to control the American missile defense system. Colossus' technicians do not count on the computer developing an intelligence of its own. Communicating with its Russian Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Dropouts

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Several of Hogan's men are caught in the act of espionage by some Gestapo agents. Even though the Germans inexplicably allow the men to slip through their fingers, Hogan prepares an all-out escape for himself and his crew. And then two of the "Gestapo" officers reveal themselves to be German Read More

The Thomas Crown Affair

Actors: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a self-made Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist in hopes of leaving it all behind. Tired of being part of the Establishment, he has hopes of pulling off the caper and flying to Rio. Erwin Weaver (Jack Weston) leads the cast of crooks who never actually Read More

Don't Forget to Wipe the Blood Off

The Forest Rangers

Lydia

Actors: Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: In this sentimental drama, a man goes to Greece to contemplate his life after he learns that he is dying of a rare terminal illness. There he hears many local myths which he at first discounts. But as he listens, he comes to understand why the residents value them so highly. One of the young Read More