Gordon Pinsent
Gordon Pinsent was born in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada on July 12th, 1930 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 93, Gordon Pinsent biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC (born July 12, 1930) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, director, and playwright.
He is well-known for his appearances in a variety of films, including Away from Her, The Rowdyman, John, and Missus, A Gift to Last, Due South, Quentin Durgens, M.P.
He has been acting as Babar the elephant's voice in television and film since 1989, for 30 years.
Early life
Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, (present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada). Florence "Flossie" (née Cooper), the child of Stephen Arthur Pinsent, was born in Clifton, Newfoundland, and his father, Stephen Arthur Pinsent, was a paper mill worker and cobbler who arrived in Dildo, Newfoundland. His mother was "quiet spoken" and a religious Anglican; the family was descended from refugees from Kent and Devon in England. He was a self-described "awkward boy" who had rickets.
Pinsent debuted on stage in the 1940s at the age of 17. He began appearing in radio drama on the CBC and later moved to television and film. He took a break from acting and joined the Canadian Army in the early 1950s, spending four years as a private in The Royal Canadian Regiment.
Personal life
Charmion King, a pinsent married actress, was married in 1962. They remained together until her death in 2007. Leah Pinsent, their daughter, is also an actor. Pinsent also has two children from a previous marriage.
Career
Pinsent's professional acting career began in 1957 at Winnipeg's Theatre 77 (later known as the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre) under the direction of John Hirsch. In the years that followed, he performed in many theatrical productions in Winnipeg, Toronto and at the Stratford Festival.
In the early 1960s he appeared in Scarlett Hill and The Forest Rangers. He has since become a staple of Canadian television with roles including the series Quentin Durgens, M.P., A Gift to Last (which he created), The Red Green Show, Due South, Wind at My Back and Power Play. The pilot episode of A Gift to Last was adapted for the stage by Walter Learning and Alden Nowlan and has become a perennial Canadian Christmas favourite in regional theatres across the country.
Pinsent's movie roles include The Rowdyman, Who Has Seen the Wind, John and the Missus, The Shipping News and Away from Her. He wrote the screenplays for The Rowdyman and John and the Missus. Perhaps his best known early film role was that of the President of the United States in the 1970 science fiction cult classic Colossus: The Forbin Project. He starred in a role called Horse Latitudes based upon Donald Crowhurst, now featured in Deep Water.
In 1979 he was made an officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1998. In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. On March 6, 2007, it was announced that Pinsent would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
On March 8, 2007, it was publicly announced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that Pinsent had accepted the appointment of honorary chairman of the "Building for the Future" fundraising campaign for The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum.
During the 2008, 2010 and 2011 summer periods of CBC Radio One, Pinsent presented a radio documentary series called The Late Show featuring extended obituaries of notable Canadians whom the producers believed deserved attention.
Pinsent appeared in one of Canadian director Stephen Dunn's early short films titled Life Doesn't Frighten Me, which won various awards, including the CBC Short Film Face-Off, with a cash prize of $30,000. The film also won awards at the Toronto Student Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013.
Most recently he had a guest starring role as Maurice Becker on the February 3, 2010 episode of Canadian television series Republic of Doyle. He was also a featured guest reader on Bookaboo.
He attained notoriety when a comedic segment of him reading dramatically from Justin Bieber's autobiography on This Hour Has 22 Minutes went viral on October 20, 2010.