Graham Greene (actor)

Graham Greene
Greene in 1998
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Hilary Blackmore (1994–present)

Graham Greene (born June 22, 1952) is an Academy Award–nominated Canadian actor.

Early life

Greene is an Oneida, born in Ohsweken on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, the son of Lillian and John Greene, who was an ambulance driver and maintenance man. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario as a young adult. Greene's first brushes with the entertainment industry came when he was an audio technician for rock bands based in Newfoundland and Labrador going by the alias Mabes. He graduated from The Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School program in 1974, and began appearing in theatre in Toronto and England.

Career

Greene's TV debut was in an episode of The Great Detective in 1979, and his screen debut was in 1983 in Running Brave. He appeared in such films as Revolution and Powwow Highway, as well as the first nations, CBC tv series Spirit Bay.

It was his Academy Award-nominated role as Kicking Bird (Lakota: Ziŋtká Nagwáka) in the 1990 film Dances with Wolves that brought him stardom. This role was followed by such films as Thunderheart, Benefit of the Doubt, and Maverick, and the television series Northern Exposure and The Red Green Show. Greene also acted alongside Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance, where he played Detective Joe-Rob Lambert. He hosted the reality crime documentary show Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science.

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 the Gemini Award. In 1997, Greene suffered a major depressive episode, and had to be hospitalized after a police encounter. He recovered.

Subsequently he was featured as Arlen Bitterbuck, a Native American on death row in the Oscar-nominated The Green Mile (1999). He starred in the short-lived television series Wolf Lake in 2001. In 2004, he accepted the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement at the Canadian Gemini Awards.

In 2005, he acted as the potential love interest of a pre-operative transsexual woman in Transamerica. He 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 the same year, the Stratford 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. In 2007, he appeared as Shylock in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of The Merchant of Venice.

Greene provides the pre-recorded narration for the highly acclaimed outdoor drama, Tecumseh! in Chillicothe, Ohio, based upon the life of the famous Shawnee chief, Tecumseh. Greene portrayed the illustrious Sioux leader Sitting Bull in a short Historica vignette.

He guest starred in an episode of the TV series Numb3rs, as a First Nations chief. He also guest-starred on multiple occasions on The Red Green Show as Edgar "K.B." Montrose, an explosives enthusiast.

He appeared in The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Harry Clearwater, Charlie Swan's old friend.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
1991	Academy Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Dances With Wolves	Nominated
1994	Gemini Awards	Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series	"The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon"	Won
	Gemini Awards	Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series	"North of 60"	Nominated

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	The Great Detective		episode "The Black Curse"
1983	Running Brave	Eddie Mills
1984	Spirit Bay	Pete "Baba" Green
1985	Revolution	Ongwata
1988	9B	Dan Jackson	appeared in five episodes
1989	Powwow Highway	Vietnam Vet
	Where the Spirit Lives	Komi's Father
1990	Lost in the Barrens	Mewasin
	Dances with Wolves	Kicking Bird	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1992	Clearcut	Arthur
	The Last of His Tribe	Ishi
	Thunderheart	Walter Crow Horse
	Rain Without Thunder	Author on History
	Northern Exposure	Leonard	appeared in five episodes
1993	Medicine River	Will
	Huck and the King of Hearts	Jim
	Spirit Rider	Vern
	Cooperstown	Raymond Maracle
	North of 60	Rico Nez	episode "The Art of the Deal"
	Benefit of the Doubt	Calhoun
	The Broken Chain	Peace Maker
1994	The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon	Mr. Crabby Tree
	Camilla	Hunt Weller
	Lonesome Dove: The Series	Red Hawk	appeared in three episodes
	Murder, She Wrote	Peter Henderson	appeared in two episodes
	Savage Land	Skyano
	The Red Green Show	Edgar K. B. Montrose	appeared in nineteen episodes from 1994 to 2006
	Maverick	Joseph
	North	Alaskan Dad
1995	Die Hard: With a Vengeance	Joe Lambert
	The Pathfinder	Chingachgook
1996	The Outer Limits	Chief Weapons Officer	episode "The Light Brigade"
1997	The Education of Little Tree	Willow John
1999	Grey Owl	Jim Bernard
	The Green Mile	Arlen Bitterbuck
2000	Big Wolf on Campus	Ferryman
2001	Lost and Delirious	Joe Menzies
2002	Duct Tape Forever	Edgar K. B. Montrose
	Snow Dogs	Peter Yellowbear
	Skins	Mogie Yellow Lodge
2003	Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion	Elijah Cobb
	Coyote Waits	Slick Nakai
2004	A Thief of Time	Slick Nakai
2005	Transamerica	Calvin
	Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story	Lloyd Blackburn
	Into the West	Conquering Bear
	Numb3rs	Chief James Clearwater
	Christmas in the Clouds
2006	A Lobster Tale	Sheriff
2007	Luna: Spirit of the Whale	Bill Louis
	All Hat	Jim Burns
	Just Buried	Henry Sanipass
2009	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	Harry Clearwater
2010	Gunless	Two Dogs

See also

• Notable Aboriginal people of Canada

External links

• Template:Amg name
• Graham Greene at IMDb