Who is gordon pinsent

My wife and I always had houses and things and then decided to go condo style. We were lucky because then they were building larger condos than they are today. It's home. What do you like about the neighbourhood? I'm 16 storeys up, so I'm looking down on Allan Gardens, which has always been great looking. And now you can't see any crack being moved about. At the beginning there was more than there is now. I do like Cabbagetown and Riverdale. Excellent for walking through the farm and so on.

I'm on my own now and it takes me only moments to get to the centre, which is going to end up being like New York in a few years, I'm afraid. It must be difficult, seeing the city without your wife [actress Charmion King, who passed away in ]. Her idea of a holiday when we lived in Forest Hill was to go downtown and see all the changes. She loved the city. I love it too and I have since the beginning, when I stepped out of Union Station and the Royal York was the second-tallest building.

I just took to it and it's held me ever since. And the changes, I don't mind them at all. Let them happen. I cursed them when they changed Maple Leaf Gardens into a Loblaws but it's wonderful. I love it. And certainly it's brought a whole new strain of people that I hadn't been seeing on a daily basis. You met your wife at a theatre here, didn't you? It's a movie theatre. We worked there. She was doing a play called The Madwoman of Chaillot and I played the love interest.

Which theatres in the city do you like to attend? I love most of them. I'm not as quick to go to opening nights any more. I leave it a bit. I'm invited and I don't always go and I should. I should support a little bit more. View rank on IMDbPro ». Gordon was known as "Porky" as a child, and dreamed of performing as early as he can remember. He served with the Royal Canadian Regiment from Gordon received an L.

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Showing all 21 items. Recipient of three Honorary Doctorates. Made an Officer of the Order of Canada in When filming the movie The Shipping News , he was the model for the Newfoundland accent for the rest of the cast, since this was the province in which he was born and raised.

One child with Charmion King , Leah Pinsent. While living in California he was friends with Marlon Brando. On one occasion he and Brando attended a drive in movie together with Brando's wife and children. Ex-father-in-law of Michael Capellupo. The two appeared together in two episodes of Due South Early in my career, I figured out how to 'hit notes' - you know, to color them properly, to play the right chords.

And I hit them pretty well, you know. But now I know precisely what to do with them. I can bring them down, down, down. And I can still be true to the rendition when I do it. In acting, you're simply at the mercy of other people's perception of you. It can be a terrifying feeling. The rewards can be great, but there is no steady happiness in this business.

There are peaks of joy and valleys of gloom. As you get older, you forget that it was an adventure at one time, that you were able to take the falls.