Oscar-nominated actor Graham Greene lifeless at 73

Oscar-nominated actor Graham Greene died Monday in Stratford, Ont., on the age of 73, his supervisor has confirmed to CBC News. 

“It is with deep sadness we announce the peaceful passing of award-winning legendary Canadian actor Graham Greene,” Gerry Jordan stated. 

The Oneida actor from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario was greatest recognized for movie roles equivalent to Kicking Bird, a Sioux medication man, in 1990’s Dances with Wolves, which earned him an Oscar nomination as greatest supporting actor. He was additionally in The Green Mile with Tom Hanks in 1999 and The Twilight Saga: New Moon in 2009.

On tv, he had roles in Northern Exposure within the Nineteen Nineties, and extra lately as a visitor star in Reservation Dogs and The Last of Us. 

He instructed CBC Q‘s Tom Power earlier this yr that he received his first performing alternative when he was working as a roadie, and somebody requested him if he’d ever thought of performing.

Decorated profession on stage and display

Even although he stated he knew nothing in regards to the theatre — and even what a script seemed like, he stated — he gave it a attempt. And he cherished it. 

“I changed into the costume and they put me in the shade in a nice chair,” he stated. “They brought me food and water … and I thought, ‘Jeez, I’m living the life of a dog! This is great. I don’t have to carry anybody’s amplifiers anymore. I don’t have to do lights. I don’t have to drive halfway across the country for nothing.'”

Overall, Greene gained two Gemini Awards, a Canadian Screen Award for his function in Seeds, a Grammy Award (for greatest spoken phrase album for kids for Listen to the Storyteller), and in 2025, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.  

“That was a major coup. I thought, ‘Wow, why me?’ ” he stated on Q. “It means a lot to be recognized in my own country.” 

Greene was additionally a member of the Order of Canada. 

‘He was a greatest pal to me’

Fellow actor Tom Jackson stated Greene was a pal and brother to him.

“I never spent enough time enjoying Graham’s company,” he instructed CBC News Monday night from Tantallon, N.S. “I wasn’t necessarily a best friend to him, but he was a best friend to me.”

Jackson co-starred with Greene within the TV film Medicine River and within the TV sequence Spirit Bay. He stated Greene did no matter it took to be in present enterprise: he would run sound, construct units, be stage supervisor — believing that to be in present enterprise, you needed to be the enterprise.

“And he was. He was an epitome of the business,” Jackson stated. “It’s an honour to be able to speak about Graham.”

‘An epic loss for therefore many’

Greene was in heady firm on the 1991 Academy Awards, nominated within the supporting actor class alongside Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Bruce Davison and Joe Pesci, who would win for Goodfellas.

He went on to play dozens of roles on stage and on display in a profession that spanned nearly 5 many years, from main movement footage like Thunderheart, Maverick and Die Hard With a Vengeance, to a variety of labor on Canadian productions, together with comedy The Red Greene Show, kids’s program The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon and as narrator-host of Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science.

“Today we lost a great one,” Indigenous filmmaker and actor Jennifer Podemski said in a social media post.

“I feel so lucky to have known him. An epic loss for so many,” she added.

Actor Lou Diamond Phillips stated in a social media publish he was “heartbroken” to be taught of Greene’s loss of life.

“From Wolf Lake to Longmire, we had a beautiful friendship,” stated Phillips. “An Actor’s Actor. One of the wittiest, wiliest, warmest people I’ve ever known. Iconic and Legendary.”

Greene’s supervisor instructed CBC News the actor died of pure causes, and that particulars relating to a remembrance celebration will probably be shared within the coming days.