Lorne Greene (February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987), was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.
His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica. He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness, and in television commercials as a dog food spokesman.
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Lorne Greene Biography / Wiki
| Name | Lorne Greene |
| Also Know | Lyon Himan ‘Chaim’ Greene, Lorne Green |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Date of Birth | 1915-02-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 1987-09-11 |
Lorne Greene Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Heidi’s Song | Grandfather | 1982-11-19 | Orphan Heidi lives with her grandpa in Swiss Alps. She brings joy to all there. However, her aunt takes her to the city to live as a servant girl to a… |
| Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence | narrator | 1953-12-31 | An educational film from 1953 to encourage parents talk to their children about adolescence…. |
| Warclouds in the Pacific | Narrator | 1941-12-24 | Much activity is happening in naval yards on the western shores of the Pacific as tensions rise across the ocean with Nazi Germany’s support of the Ja… |
| The Gifts | Narrator | 1970-01-01 | The Gifts is a 1970 American short documentary film about water pollution in the United States. The film was produced by Robert McBride for the United… |
| Wings of Youth | Narrator (voice) | 1940-07-27 | This Canadian produced film spotlights the young flyers of the Canadian Air Force in the early days of World War II. Quite well done and rarely seen. … |
| Age of Turmoil | Narrator | 1953-01-01 | An afternoon and evening in the complicated lives of six teenagers…. |
| Front of Steel | Narrator | 1940-01-01 | This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and losing… |
| Home Front | Narrator | 1940-01-01 | This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series of morale-boosting wartime propaganda films. In Home Front, the various WWII-era social… |
| Churchill’s Island | Narrator (voice) | 1941-01-01 | The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America…. |
| Battle of Brains | Narrator (voice) | 1941-02-14 | This film illustrates the difference between World War II and the war of 1914, emphasizing the importance of mechanization, and contrasting the mobile… |
| Children from Overseas | Narrator | 1940-07-15 | A WWII film about children evacuated from Britain and sent to Canada for their safety. The film begins in England with children seeking shelter as ant… |
| Atlantic Patrol | Narrator | 1940-01-01 | This short documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada’s eastern ports during WWII is the first film in the Canada Carries On series. The … |
| Heroes of the Atlantic | Narrator (voice) | 1941-02-23 | A view from Canada of the North Atlantic convoy route during the Battle of the Atlantic, presented in the framework of the turnaround of a single conv… |
| The Little Brown Burro | Storyteller (voice) | 1978-12-15 | A sad little burro who feels that no one wants him and that he doesn’t belong anywhere finds out differently when he is bought by Joseph to transport … |
| Ordeal by Ice | Narrator (voice) | 1945-01-01 | This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. The secret winter manoeuvres of the British Army’s Lovat Scouts took place in the Cana… |
| Ride the Wind | Ben Cartwright | 1966-01-01 | The international theatrical release of the 1966 William Witney feature cowboy western movie made from two 1966 episodes of the television series “Bon… |
| The Mask of Nippon | Narrator (voice) | 1942-10-18 | An anti-Japanese propaganda film produced during World War II…. |
| Break-through | Himself – Narrator | 1944-03-13 | On June 6, 1944, supported by an immense naval armada, Allied troops, including the First Canadian Army, led by General Harry Crerar, launch an amphib… |
| Fighting Sea-Fleas | Narrator (voice) | 1944-03-13 | First half of film portrays life in port, including rum issue, distribution of letters, and taking on ammunition, the remainder tells the story of an … |
| Train Busters | Narrator (voice) | 1944-03-14 | This short film depicts the strength and resources of the Royal Canadian Air Force, with its 32 overseas squadrons. It includes footage that explains … |
| Trans-Canada Express | Narrator (voice) | 1944-03-14 | This short documentary from the Canada Carries On series celebrates the contribution of Canada’s railroads to the war effort. The film includes a se… |
| Now—The Peace | Narrator (uncredited) | 1945-05-18 | Short film produced and directed in 1945 for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in Action. Over its nearly 21-minute running time, cir… |
| High Country Calling | 1975-01-01 | Nature study of a photographer raising a pack of wolf cubs. Narrated by Lorne Greene…. | |
| The Legend of Amaluk: An Arctic Journey | Narrator | 1972-10-06 | Nature film that takes place in the Yukon as it follows am Eskimo named Amaluk… |
| Gateway to Asia | Narrator (voice) | 1945-12-03 | This short film highlights the province of British Columbia and its position after World War II. Located on the Pacific Coast, it is the gateway for t… |
| Suffer Little Children | Himself – Narrator | 1945-12-03 | This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. At the end of World War II there were sixty million sick and starving children in Euro… |
| Headline Hunters | Narrator (voice) | 1945-12-10 | Headline Hunters is an 11-minute 1945 Canadian documentary film, part of the wartime Canada Carries On series, produced by Alan Field. The short film … |
| The War Is Over | Narrator | 1945-09-01 | A short film about the end of World War II and Canada’s contribution to the effort…. |
| Meaning Of Adolescence | Narrator | 1953-01-01 | An overview of the social, emotional, mental and physical changes which occur in the adolescent with suggestions on how adults can help…. |
| What’s on Your Mind | Narrator | 1948-12-25 | The treatment of mental illness and psychological disorders–including electroshock therapy–brought about by the stresses of modern life are shown in… |
| A Capital Plan | Narrator | 1949-01-01 | This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction. S… |
| Tomorrow’s Citizens | Narrator | 1947-01-01 | Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new natural energies, to be used for or against mankin… |
| A Way Out of the Wilderness | Narrator | 1968-01-01 | A Way Out of the Wilderness is a 1968 American short documentary film produced by Dan E. Weisburd. It describes and illustrates steps being taken by t… |
| Destiny of a Spy | Peter Vanin | 1969-10-27 | A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love w… |
| The Harness | Peter Randall | 1971-11-12 | A gentle John Steinbeck tale from 1938 about a farmer who is dominated by his ailing wife until a free-minded young woman turns up at his ranch with h… |
| The Cliff Hangers | Self – Narration (voice) | 1950-08-20 | Over a gleaming ice field and up steep cliffs of bare rock, the camera follows members of the Alpine Club of Canada. Before they set out we are introd… |
| Man on the Outside | Wade Griffin | 1975-06-29 | A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate kille… |
| The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald | Matthew Arnold Watson | 1977-09-30 | The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial…. |
| The Canadian Conspiracy | 1985-01-01 | A mockumentary illustrating a supposed conspiracy to infiltrate American culture through employing Canadians in the U.S. entertainment industry…. | |
| 1984 | O’Brien | 1953-09-21 | George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. Episode… |
| Nevada Smith | Jonas Cord | 1975-05-03 | A half-breed gunslinger and a friend he hasn’t seen in years join together to escort a shipment of explosives across Utah…. |
| Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack | Cmdr. Adama | 1979-01-01 | Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylon… |
| Battlestar Galactica | Commander Adama | 1978-09-16 | After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the… |
| The Hard Man | Rice Martin | 1957-12-01 | A Texas Ranger (Guy Madison) turns deputy sheriff; a woman (Valerie French) wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband (Lorne Greene)…. |
| The Nutcracker: A Fantasy on Ice | 1983-01-01 | After her mechanical nutcracker is broken by her brother, Clara falls asleep under the Christmas tree with the broken nutcracker in her arms and enter… | |
| Autumn Leaves | Mr. Hanson | 1956-08-01 | A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems…. |
| Conquest of the Earth | Adama | 1981-07-01 | The Battlestar Galactica and its ragtag fleet of ships finally arrive at the Earth, only to discover that the planet is not prepared for the inevitabl… |
| The Gift of Love | Grant Allan | 1958-02-11 | Fearing she will die, a physicist’s wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts…. |
| Klondike Fever | Inspector Sam Steele | 1980-01-12 | This movie chronicles Jack London’s epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898…. |
| SST: Death Flight | Marshall Cole | 1977-02-25 | On its maiden flight, the crew of America’s first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly … |
| Johnny at the Fair | 1947-01-01 | At the Canadian National Exhibition, a young boy gets separated from his parents and meets some celebrities…. | |
| Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter | Theo | 1986-01-01 | Gino, a bank executive is not having a good day. After giving birth to their eighth child, his wife insists that he have a vasectomy, something he doe… |
| The Edge of Innocence | Lowell Williams | 1957-10-31 | An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother’s disappearance and murder…. |
| Earthquake | Sam Royce | 1974-01-01 | Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California…. |
| Tight Spot | Benjamin Costain | 1955-03-19 | A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the Distri… |
| The Last of the Fast Guns | Michael O’Reilly | 1958-07-01 | A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dyin… |
| The Bastard | Bishop Francis | 1978-05-22 | Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath o… |
| A Time for Miracles | Bishop John Carroll | 1980-12-21 | Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America’s first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tr… |
| The Trap | Davis | 1959-01-28 | Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the air… |
| The Buccaneer | Mercier | 1958-12-11 | During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will … |
| Noah’s Ark | Noah (voice) | 1986-01-01 | The story of the Prophet Noah. Violence and corruption fill the earth. To punish this wickedness, God vows to send a cleansing flood. Only one man – N… |
| The Silver Chalice | Peter | 1954-12-20 | A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels… |
| The Special London Bridge Special | Fiddler on the Roof | 1972-01-01 | In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transported to the bridge’s new location where he, befud… |
| Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love | Hercule | 1974-05-01 | Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segmen… |
| Mayerling | Emperor’s Aide | 1957-02-04 | Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf–desp… |
| The Hangman | Clem J. Cummings | 1959-06-17 | A marshal nicknamed “The Hangman” because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town…. |
| Rowan & Martin At the Movies | Himself | 1968-01-01 | This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. It turns out tha… |
| Farewell Oak Street | Narrator | 1953-06-15 | This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they wer… |
| Peyton Place | District Attorney | 1957-12-13 | In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion — which re… |
| The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers | Self | 1962-01-06 | A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches…. |
| The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory | Gen. Sam Houston | 1987-11-11 | Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mex… |
| A Walking Tour of Sesame Street | Ben Cartwright (archive footage) | 1979-03-01 | Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of S… |
| The Dean Martin Christmas Show | Himself | 1968-12-19 | A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends…. |
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