Gary Farmer
Birthday: 1953-06-12
Place of Birth: Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada
Biography: Gary Dale Farmer (born June 12, 1953) is a versatile and esteemed Native-Canadian actor known for his compelling performances on screen. Born in Ohsweken, Ontario, Farmer has made significant contributions to film and television. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his memorable performance as Nobody in the Jim Jarmusch independent western Dead Man (1995), in which he starred opposite Johnny Depp, and again for his role in Smoke Signals (1998). Gary reprised his role as Nobody for Jim Jarmusch again in "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), and Frank Oz cast him alongside Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro in The Score (2001). Recently Gary showed off his comedy chops as Uncle Brownie on "Reservation Dogs." Farmer's ability to portray diverse characters with authenticity and nuance has earned him acclaim in the entertainment industry. His passion for storytelling and his commitment to his craft have established him as a respected and influential figure in the world of acting.
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Dead Man
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepa...
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Smoke Signals
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling ...
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Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sini...
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A Thief Of Time
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from ...
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One Night with You
As Jake Tarlow knows, sometimes things don't turn out as you'd like. You end up living in your car. ...
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Jimmy P.
At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from une...
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Run Woman Run
Beck, a single mom, lives in Six Nations, Canada. After her mother’s death, she abandons her dream o...
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Twist
In a gritty retelling of the Dickens's classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the ...
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Powwow Highway
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one ...
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Good Neighbours
Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terr...
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Disappearances
Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his en...
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Rez Carz
Abandoned cars rest silently in fields for decades, still holding secret conversations within their ...
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Hey Viktor!
Twenty-five long years after his time in the limelight, former child actor Cody Lightning tries to r...
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Collateral Damage
Glen is surprised when a news anchor stops reporting on the Gulf War and begins talking directly to ...
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Skins
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ri...
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The Republic Of Love
A thrice-divorced radio DJ meets the woman of his dreams but can he convince her of the truth of his...
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Dreamkeeper
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is...
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Moonshine Highway
The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry w...
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Heater
In wintry Winnipeg a man struggling to keep the poor lodging he can find meets a homeless man luggin...
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Sparks: The Price of Passion
A female mayor of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic cente...
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Winter in the Blood
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by ch...
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The Undergrads
An elderly man discovers that his son wants to put him in an old-age home. However, the old man's gr...
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Henry & Verlin
Verlin is 9 years old and does not talk, nor does he even seem to hear. Henry, a child-like adult, b...
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Still Life
The alleys of downtown Manhattan become a modern killing field when corpses begin turning up, disfig...
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Lake of Betrayal: The Story of Kinzua Dam
Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania was a flashpoint in history for the Seneca Nation ...
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Lilies
1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a prison to hear the confession of Simon, a boyhood friend jailed for m...
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Blown Away
After her mother is killed by a car bomb, a 17-year-old girl lives a reckless and decadent lifestyle...
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Angels Don't Sleep Here
A man is accused of murder and manipulated into a web of deceit as his thought-to-be dead twin broth...
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All Hat
An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner tr...
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California Indian
Nick Thomas, a Pomo Indian and a successful Los Angeles radio host, is forced back to the reservatio...
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Delivering Milo
A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort....
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Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat
This Heritage Minute follows the life of Onondaga long-distance runner Gagwe:gih, whose name means “...
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Adaptation.
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustr...
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A Windigo Tale
Two stories woven together, one profoundly affecting the other. A Native Canadian grandfather drives...
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The Dark Wind
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation....
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Evergreen
Seduced by a boy's affluent, seemingly idyllic family, a young girl goes to extremes to gain accepta...
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Renegades
While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to ...
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Touched
A young man runs from the voices in his head into the arms of an elderly cowgirl....
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The Timekeeper
A l'automne 1964, la construction des 52 derniers milles du chemin de fer du Grand lac des Esclaves ...
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob....
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Sioux City
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cu...
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The Score
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him int...
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Ed and His Dead Mother
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexp...
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The Believers
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laco...
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Blood Quantum
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its In...
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First Cow
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a C...
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Santa Fake
The Christmas-themed family film will follow Pat Keeley, a young man from Ireland who has emigrated ...
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Police Academy
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longe...
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A Bird of the Air
A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pur...
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The Dark Divide
A shy butterfly expert embarks on a dangerous, life-changing trek through one of America’s greatest ...
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Stolen Heart
A trio of small-time hoods decide to go for the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich self-h...
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Cowboys
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wi...
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Foreverland
A sufferer of cystic fibrosis travels to a legendary shrine that reputedly has the power to heal his...
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The Big Empty
Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of B...
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The Big Town
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who le...
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Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca....
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Blackwater
Native American country singer Birdie Blackwater is court ordered to attend 180 days of wellness the...
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Quantum Cowboys
Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's...
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Coyote Waits
A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Che...
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Blood Brothers
Two brothers’ relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance compl...
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Intervention
An eclectic group of people drawn from all walks of life find themselves under one roof for twenty-e...
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Trudell
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performan...
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Christmas Eve
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with childre...
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An Ode for Leviticus
A decrepit old man discovers the true nature of his doctor's appointment and attempts to escape....
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Path of Souls
Of First Nations background originally from central Manitoba, Jon Beardsley, a Ph.D. candidate, dies...
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The Virginian
A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice a...
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Tombs
Tombs weaves together the triangular story points of three Oklahoma sisters and their mother who tra...
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