Gord Downie

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Gord Downie

Born February 6, 1964 · Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Died October 17, 2017 · aged 53

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.

Known For

One WeekOne Week · 2008
One Week
6.82008
MovieAdventureDrama
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 MovieTrailer Park Boys: The Movie · 2006
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
6.52006
MovieComedyCrime
The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail, upon release they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty", a plan to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.
I Love a Man in UniformI Love a Man in Uniform · 1993
I Love a Man in Uniform
6.41993
MovieDramaThriller
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 Tragically Hip - MacroscopicThe Tragically Hip - Macroscopic · 2005
The Tragically Hip - Macroscopic
2005
MovieDocumentaryMusic
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 - Live at the Misty MoonThe Tragically Hip - Live at the Misty Moon · 1990
The Tragically Hip - Live at the Misty Moon
1990
MovieMusic
A recording of Live at The Misty Moon the special filmed for MuchMusic in 1990 from The Misty Moon in Halifax with accompanying 1 hour concert film on Bluray
Finding the Secret PathFinding the Secret Path · 2018
Finding the Secret Path
2018
MovieDocumentary
"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.

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