Gordon Edward Pinsent CC, FRSC LL.D (born July 12, 1930) is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor.
Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Flossie Cooper and Stephen Arthur Pinsent, a papermill worker and cobbler. His mother was "quiet spoken" and a religious Anglican; the family was descended from immigrants from Kent and Devon in England. He was an "awkward child" who suffered from rickets. Pinsent began acting on stage in the 1940s at the age of 17. He soon took on roles in radio drama on the CBC, and later moved into television and film as well. In the early 1950s, he took a break from acting and joined the Canadian Army, serving for approximately four years as a Private in The Royal Canadian Regiment.
During the early years of his career he appeared in Scarlett Hill but was best known for co-starring in the CBC children's series The Forest Rangers in the early 1960s. Later television roles have included the series...
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Away From Her is a Canadian film which debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. The feature-length directorial debut of Canadian actor Sarah Polley, the film is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", from the 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.The film stars Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie as a couple whose marriage is tested when Christie's character begins to suffer from Alzheimer's and moves into a nursing home, where she loses virtually all memory of her husband and begins to develop a romance with another nursing home resident.The cast also includes Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, and Kristen Thomson.Atom Egoyan, Polley's director in The Sweet Hereafter, is the film's executive producer.The film also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.The film was distributed by Lionsgate Films....,
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Silence of the North is a 1981 Canadian film starring Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, and Ellen Burstyn. The three main actors were nominated for Genie Awards, as was the director, Allan King....,
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Blacula was a financial success when it was originally released. It was immediately followed by a sequel, Scream Blacula Scream (1973), in which the vampire (with Marshall reprising the role) is made corporeal again by a Voodoo practitioner. The success of the film also inspired the making of several other blaxploitation/horror crossovers in the mid-seventies,[citation needed] including Abby, Blackenstein, Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde, Ganja and Hess, The House on Skull Mountain, J.D.'s Revenge and Sugar Hill, although none of these films were as successful commercially as Blacula. Two more recent horror films with predominantly black casts were Vampire in Brooklyn (a 1995 film which shares many themes and source material with Blacula) and Bones (2001).
In 1780, Prince Mamuwalde (Marshall), the ruler of an African nation, seeks the help of Count Dracula (Charles Macaulay) in suppressing the slave trade. Dracula, who along with his other evils is revealed as a racist, not only...,
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Colossus: The Forbin Project is an apocalyptic science fiction film based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about the massive, eponymous American defense computer becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world. Although unsuccessful when released, it is well respected by science fiction aficionados and critics. Imagine Entertainment and Universal studios have confirmed that a remake titled Colossus, to be directed by Ron Howard, is in production.[1]Dr. Charles A. Forbin (Eric Braeden) is the chief designer of a secret government project. He and his team have built a gigantic and fantastically advanced supercomputer, called "Colossus", to control all of the United States and Allied nuclear weapons systems. Colossus is built to be impervious to any attack, encased within a mountain and powered by its own nuclear reactor. When it is activated, the Kennedy-esque President of the United States (Gordon Pinsent) announces its existence, proudly...,
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The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 movie starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A remake was released in 1999 starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.
The film was modelled on the life of noted Belgian thief Tomas Van Der Heijden who used a dune buggy to steal seven paintings by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir from the Louvre in 1961. A more immediate basis for the films was Eric Ambler's 1962 novel, The Light of Day, which provided a fictionalized account of Heijden's exploits.
The 1968 version was nominated for two Academy Awards for Original Music Score and Best Song. It won an Academy Award for Best Song with "Windmills of Your Mind" by Michel Legrand (music), Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman (lyrics).
Thomas Crown, a young, handsome millionaire pulls off the perfect crime by having five men rob a bank and dump the money in a trash can, which Crown retrieves later and stores in a Geneva bank. Vicki Anderson, an independent insurance investigator, is contracted to investigate...
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