Tuesday, September 2, 2025

FAREWELL, GRAHAM GREENE

You hit super-stardom as the noble Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner's sprawling Dances With Wolves, but your career began before such and extended well beyond it.

Of your feature-length/extended endeavors, you starred in Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance, Thunderheart, Rain Without Thunder, Antlers, Turok: Son of Stone, Twilight: New Moon, The Shack, Atlantic Rim, Phil the AlienThe Green Mile, Revolution, Casino Jack, Benefit of a Doubt, Clearcut, Shattered Image, Wind River, Winter's Tale, Running Brave, Savage Land, The Last of His Tribe, The Education of Little Tree, Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story, Gunless, 1883, The Wolf and the Lion, The Birds Who Feared Death, Grey Owl, Sweet Summer Pow Wow, Into the West, The Pathfinder, Trail of Vengeance, Protectors of the Land, Defining Moments, Buffalo Dreams, All HatSnow Dogs, Corner Gas: The Movie, Chasing Shakespeare, Through Black Spruce, King Ivory, Paige Darcy: Reluctant Detective, A Dark Foe, Astronaut, Just Buried, TransamericaMisery Harbour, Ice Fall, The Great Salish Heist, The Protector, Camilla, North, Desire, Echo, 9B, Maina, Seeds, Squealer and Rugged Gold.

On television, you were a regular on Northern Exposure, as Leonard Quinhagak, on The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon, as Mr. Crabby Tree, on Wolf Lake, as Sherman Blackstone, on Longmire as Malachi Strand, on Goliath, as Littlecrow, on Defiance, as Rafe McCauley, on The Red Green Show, as Edgar K.B. Montross, and on Being Erica, as Dr. Arthur. You also appeared on the Beachcombers revivals and hosted the informative Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science

On a guest-starring basis, you visited Project: Blue Book, American Gods, The Outer Limits 1996, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Lonesome Dove, The Campbells, Liberty Street, Murder She Wrote, L.A. Law, Riverdale, The Collector, The Detour, Spirit Bay, Big Wolf on Campus, Reservation Dogs, Tulsa King and more. 

You were charismatic, identifiable and well rounded in your skills, sometimes somber, sometimes amusing, but always able to twist your stoicism with a welcoming wink. The tender method worked for sure, which is why you'll be so dearly missed, Mr. Greene ... why you'll always be kept deep within our souls. 

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