Graham Greene (actor)

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Graham Greene

Graham Greene (b.June 22, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian actor. He is an Oneida, born in Ohsweken on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario as a young adult. ^[1]

Greene's first brushes with the entertainment industry came when he was an audio technician for rock bands. He graduated from The Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School program in 1974, and began appearing in theater in Toronto and England.

His screen debut was in 1983 in Running Brave, and appeared in such films as Revolution and Powwow Highway, but it was his Academy Award nominated role as "Kicking Bird" in the 1990 film Dances With Wolves that brought him stardom.

He followed that up with such films as Thunderheart, Benefit of the Doubt, and Maverick, and on the television series Northern Exposure and The Red Green Show. He also hosted a true crime documentary show called Exhibit A (called Secrets of Forensic Science in the United States) in 1997.

In 1992 he played the role of Ishi the last Yahi in the HBO drama The Last of His Tribe.

In 1994 he began appearing as Mr. Crabby Tree in the children's series The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon for which he received his first, and so far only Gemini Award.

In 1997, Greene suffered a major depressive attack, and had to be hospitalized after a police encounter. He survived the ordeal, and subsequently was featured as Arlen Bitterbuck, a Native American on death row in the Oscar-nominated The Green Mile (1999). He starred in the short-run television series Wolf Lake in 2001.

In 2004 he accepted the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement at the Gemini Awards.

In 2005, he re-emerged as the potential love interest in Transamerica of a pre-operative transsexual woman. He also appeared as himself in a parody of the famous Lakota-brand pain reliever commercials, on CBC Television's Rick Mercer Report. In 2006, Greene was the presenter of the documentary series The War that Made America about the French and Indian War of the mid-18th century.

In 2006, the Stratford Theatre Festival of Canada announced that Greene would be taking leading roles in their 2007 productions of The Merchant of Venice and Of Mice and Men.

1 Selected filmography
2 Trivia
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Selected filmography

Dances with Wolves (1990)
The Last of His Tribe (1992)
Thunderheart (1992)
Cooperstown (1993) (TVM)
Maverick (1994)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
The Outer Limits: "The Light Brigade" (1996)
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
The Green Mile (1999)
Duct Tape Forever (2002)
Skins (2002)
Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion (2003)
Transamerica (2005)

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[edit] Trivia

Greene provides the pre-recorded narration for the highly acclaimed Tecumseh! outdoor drama in Chillicothe, Ohio, based upon the life of the famous Shawnee chief, Tecumseh.
Greene portrays the famous Sioux leader Sitting Bull in a short Historica vignette.
Greene has the same name of a novelist of the 20th century, Graham Greene