Actor Gordon Pinsent, the friendly face and rogueish heart of Canadian cinema, dead at 92
At a 2007 ceremony to unveil his star on Canada’s Walk of Fame, actor Gordon Pinsent joked that he would have to duck down side streets now lest he be caught by passersby gazing at his own celebrity. “He’ll be calling himself an icon soon,” he imagined contemptuous pedestrians saying. “We got the Mountie and we got the beaver. Those are the only two icons we need.”
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, he speculated that the experience of that delay taught him from an early age how to fake it.
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 inat the Crest Theatre in 1961. One scene required her to whistle, which she couldn’t do, and Pinsent came to her aid, whistling from the wings every night of the run. She, in exchange, gave him rides home in her car. They married a year later.
A scene from 1972's The Rowdyman, a movie Pinsent wrote and starred in about a hard-living Newfoundland mill worker.for the Charlottetown Festival and took various assignments from the CBC: increasingly recognized as a writer as well as an actor, Pinsent was soon commissioned to write a Christmas special that would offer him the role that came to personify his public image. Set around 1900,introduced the character of North West Mounted Police Sgt.
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