Gord Downie

Gord Downie

Nacimiento : 1964-02-06, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Muerte : 2017-10-17

Historia

Gordon Edgar Downie CM was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist. He was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from their formation in 1984 until his death in 2017.

Perfil

Gord Downie
Gord Downie

Películas

The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running
Himself
A documentary chronicling The Tragically Hip during the emotional lead up through to the epic last show of the iconic Canadian band's now legendary 2016 tour.
The Secret Path
Executive Producer
The Secret Path is an animated film adaptation of Gord Downie's album and Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. Working with Downie's poetry and music, Lemire has created a powerful visual representation of the life of Chanie Wenjack.
The Secret Path
Music
The Secret Path is an animated film adaptation of Gord Downie's album and Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. Working with Downie's poetry and music, Lemire has created a powerful visual representation of the life of Chanie Wenjack.
The Secret Path
Writer
The Secret Path is an animated film adaptation of Gord Downie's album and Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. Working with Downie's poetry and music, Lemire has created a powerful visual representation of the life of Chanie Wenjack.
The Secret Path
Director
The Secret Path is an animated film adaptation of Gord Downie's album and Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. Working with Downie's poetry and music, Lemire has created a powerful visual representation of the life of Chanie Wenjack.
The Tragically Hip -  A National Celebration
Vocals
Cuando se anunció en mayo de 2016 que el cantante Gord Downie había sido diagnosticado con cáncer cerebral terminal, la banda decidió que harían una última carrera de 15 fechas en Canadá. Una celebración nacional fue el espectáculo final de la gira de poemas Tragically Hip's Man Machine, grabada el 20 de agosto de 2016 en el K-Rock Center en su ciudad natal de Kingston Ontario. Originalmente transmitido en vivo por CBC en todas las plataformas, el concierto fue experimentado por aproximadamente un tercio de los canadienses, uno de los eventos más importantes en la historia de las transmisiones del país.
Lennon or McCartney
Self
550 artistas fueron entrevistados a lo largo de diez años. En algún momento de esas entrevistas se les hizo una pregunta y se les pidió que respondieran con una sola palabra. Algunos se ciñeron a una, otros dijeron más, otros contestaron rápidamente, otros se lo pensaron mejor y otros no contestaron nada. Esa pregunta… ¿Lennon o McCartney?
The Tragically Hip In Bobcaygeon
Himself
It was one of the most anticipated events in the history of Canadian music. The Tragically Hip, Canada's most beloved rock band, was headlining a festival concert in Bobcaygeon - the small Ontario town, population 2,500, that inspired one of the group's most popular and enduring songs. 25,000 fans from across North America and Europe would make the pilgrimage. This is the story of a monumental concert, told through intimate footage of devoted Hip fans, the townspeople who embraced them, and of the inimitable band who, after more than 25 years of playing music together, have come to represent the soul of Canadian rock.
One Week
Biker
Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Cop 1
The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty" which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever
The Tragically Hip - Macroscopic
A charming, 50-minute documentary of daily band life of The Tragically Hip directed by Christopher Mills. A true visual feat that is a distant, "up-close-and-personal" perspective on what makes the Hip tick.
The Tragically Hip - That Night in Toronto
Himself - Vocals and Guitars
That Night in Toronto is a live concert DVD featuring Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, filmed and directed by filmmaking brothers Pierre and Francois Lamoureux.
Heksenketel
Self
The Tragically Hip's '93 tour, Another Roadside Attraction, was originally called 'Heksenketel', or witches' cauldron. Which is apt, since bands on tour eventually come under some sort of spell. Reality is suspended. Into this cauldron we have added a sea of steaming fans, some vintage Hip performances and a tour bus on its last trip across the country.
I Love a Man in Uniform
Original Music Composer
Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn't long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.
The Truth About Rainbows
Taxi Driver
The Truth About Rainbows is a dramatic short film set in a new world city on the verge of change, for better or worse. Once upon a time, Toronto was heralded as one of the most liveable and culturally diverse cities in the world. But that was before years of economic instability, political scandal and rising crime rates forced the Federal Crown to appoint a City Comptroller. It is now 2023. Amidst the largest revitalization campaign in the country, conflict sparks between the wealthy who reside in the City Core, and the displaced living in localized communities on the Outside. When Des Roberson returns home after a five-year absence, he arrives in a city militarized, and with the unsettling knowledge that his father has mysteriously disappeared.
Finding the Secret Path
"Secret Path” is the award winning multi-media project that seamlessly blends Gord Downie's poetry and music with Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. It tells the wrenching and all too common story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old boy who died in 1966 after running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario. Finding the Secret Path is an intimate concert film and documentary that captures Gord Downie, behind the scenes, as he prepares for an emotional and historic Secret Path performance, before the entire Wenjack family, at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, interwoven with footage from the original animated film.