What did Bob Fraser look like as a young man?

[luzula]

I may possibly be procrastinating from writing my Bob, Buck and Caroline story by googling for images of a young Gordon Pinsent. There really isn't much out there--or possibly I don't have enough google-fu. Still, I thought I'd share what I found. There's this one, where he looks kind of serious and dark-haired and not particularly Bob-like (he's the one in the middle). Date unknown, but it looks like the 60's or 70's. And there's these two, where he's outdoors and unshaven. *squints* Yeah, I can see it. Those are from 1969, when he was 39 years old.

Also, he apparently played a Mountie on a children's TV series from the 60's called "The Forest Rangers". You can see him in uniform if you scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Huh, I wish there was something from the 50's. I mean, I do picture Bob as being a few years younger than Gordon Pinsent. Fraser was born in 1960, I think, and I've always imagined that Bob was younger than 30 when Fraser was born.

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[vsee.livejournal.com]

Oh noes, I wish I still had my copy of Gordon Pinsent's autobiography to send to you. I gave it away to someone about three years ago, after failing to read more than the first chapter. There were some young-ish photos in there, plus some stories that might have been fun inspiration. He's actually quite an interesting guy. He wrote this autobiography years before he was on Due South. I didn't know till I started looking that he is a playwright. The book was completely charming, but I somehow failed to get engrossed.

[luzula]

Huh, that could have been interesting. But OTOH, I usually don't want to know things about actors--I mean, I've never watched a CKR interview, for example. I'm just scared of getting the character influenced too much by the actor, I think.