Beloved Canadian actor GordonPinsent dead at 92
Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent is the subject of a new documentary on his life and career, "The River of My Dreams," which premiered at TIFF 2016. Pinsent and director Brigitte Berman reflected on the process with Entertainment Reporter Chris Jancelewicz.
Pinsent was “suave, classy elegant, well-spoken,” said Critch, a fellow Newfoundlander and family friend who says he became close with Pinsent after working they worked together on a YouTube project. Born in Grand Falls, N.L., in 1930, Pinsent was the youngest of six children born to Stephen Pinsent, a papermill worker and cobbler, and his wife, Flossie.
But acting remained his true love, and he became a stalwart on some children’s shows in the early 1960s, including CBC’s “The Forest Rangers”. He went on to appear in dozens of Canada’s best-known television shows, including “The Red Green Show”, “Due South”, “Wind at My Back” and Paul Gross’s “H20: The Last Prime Minister”.
The actress and director said from the moment she finished reading the Alice Munro short story, “The Bear Came Over The Mountain,” she envisioned a film starring Pinsent as Grant, the bewildered husband who loses his wife of 45 years not just to Alzheimer’s, but to another man. Pinsent was happy to oblige.
“It’s almost impossible to grasp … how do you prepare? Where does love go? Where do you go, the leftover?” At a pre-Genie brunch honouring the film in March 2008, Pinsent told of hijinks involving his co-star, Julie Christie, an animal rights activist and environmentalist. “I suppose if I was out there pounding the pavement and working rooms, there might be more coming my way, but that’s just not me,” Pinsent said. “I don’t work rooms anymore. I tried that as a younger man and didn’t like it very much.”
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