Lorne Greene

Lorne Greene

Birthday: 1915-02-12

Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Biography: Lyon Himan Green, OC (February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987), known by his stage name Lorne Greene, was 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Greene, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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A Way Out of the Wilderness
A Way Out of the Wilderness

A Way Out of the Wilderness is a 1968 American short documentary film produced by Dan E. Weisburd. I...

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Death Follows a Psycho
Death Follows a Psycho

Private eye Wade Griffin finds himself in an intense stand-off with a "human time-bomb", who is hold...

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Earthquake
Earthquake

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits ...

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The Buccaneer
The Buccaneer

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

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Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack
Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack

A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 10–12 and 21, with alternate footage. Running low on ...

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A Place in History
A Place in History

A documentary on Dwight Eisenhower shown at the Eisenhower library....

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Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves

A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems....

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Peyton Place
Peyton Place

In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tr...

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The Dean Martin Christmas Show
The Dean Martin Christmas Show

A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends....

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The Silver Chalice
The Silver Chalice

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the fa...

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Conquest of the Earth
Conquest of the Earth

A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1–3 and 7–9, with alternate footage. The Galactica an...

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Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera

Celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Hanna-Barbera partnership....

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The Trap
The Trap

Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary...

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Heidi's Song
Heidi's Song

Orphan Heidi lives with her grandpa in Swiss Alps. She brings joy to all there. However, her aunt ta...

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Tight Spot
Tight Spot

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangste...

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Eye Witness No. 33
Eye Witness No. 33

Vignettes covering S.S. Lurcher, a celebration in Windsor, Ontario and the Sullivan Mine in British ...

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Global Air Routes
Global Air Routes

Account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of issues to be solved in re...

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Look to the North
Look to the North

A look at the development of the Canadian northwest for World War II as well as post-war purposes....

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Our Northern Neighbour
Our Northern Neighbour

A look at Soviet foreign policy and the value of the Soviet Union as an ally....

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Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence
Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence

An educational film from 1953 to encourage parents talk to their children about adolescence....

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White Fortress
White Fortress

This short 1949 documentary studies the impact Canada's National Health Program has had on people wh...

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The Last of the Fast Guns
The Last of the Fast Guns

A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En rou...

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Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica

A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1 and 5, with alternate footage. After the destructio...

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The Gift of Love
The Gift of Love

Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts...

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The Hard Man
The Hard Man

A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband....

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The Nutcracker: A Fantasy on Ice
The Nutcracker: A Fantasy on Ice

After her mechanical nutcracker is broken by her brother, Clara falls asleep under the Christmas tre...

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The Case of the Baltimore Girls
The Case of the Baltimore Girls

Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service....

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Warclouds in the Pacific
Warclouds in the Pacific

This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly establi...

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The Gifts
The Gifts

The Gifts is a 1970 American short documentary film about water pollution in the United States. The ...

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Klondike Fever
Klondike Fever

This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1...

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SST: Death Flight
SST: Death Flight

On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be abl...

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Destiny of a Spy
Destiny of a Spy

A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotag...

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The Harness
The Harness

A gentle John Steinbeck tale from 1938 about a farmer who is dominated by his ailing wife until a fr...

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The Cliff Hangers
The Cliff Hangers

Over a gleaming ice field and up steep cliffs of bare rock, the camera follows members of the Alpine...

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Man on the Outside
Man on the Outside

A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes ...

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The Bastard
The Bastard

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to Engla...

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The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches....

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Wings in the Wilderness
Wings in the Wilderness

The first man to train or imprint Canada geese goslings using a radio-controlled model airplane is d...

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The Special London Bridge Special
The Special London Bridge Special

In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transp...

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Christmas with Lorne Greene
Christmas with Lorne Greene

The Bonanza star hosts this yuletide half-hour with the UNICEF Children's Choir on their imaginary t...

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Johnny at the Fair
Johnny at the Fair

At the Canadian National Exhibition, a young boy gets separated from his parents and meets some cele...

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Wings of Youth
Wings of Youth

This Canadian produced film spotlights the young flyers of the Canadian Air Force in the early days ...

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The Hangman
The Hangman

A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted c...

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A Man for Loving
A Man for Loving

James Beal is an advertising executive in his fifties who still lives his itfe at a pace that leaves...

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Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter
Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter

Gino, a bank executive is not having a good day. After giving birth to their eighth child, his wife ...

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Farewell Oak Street
Farewell Oak Street

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing proje...

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Fighting Norway
Fighting Norway

During World War II Norwegian patriots struck at Germany from the rear, linking Canada, the United S...

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A Time for Miracles
A Time for Miracles

Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is ...

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Rowan & Martin at the Movies
Rowan & Martin at the Movies

This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV s...

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Date of Birth
Date of Birth

Canadian documentary on age and aging....

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Front of Steel
Front of Steel

This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers ...

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Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark

The story of the Prophet Noah. Violence and corruption fill the earth. To punish this wickedness, Go...

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Home Front
Home Front

This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series of morale-boosting wartime propaganda...

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Churchill's Island
Churchill's Island

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved ...

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Battle of Brains
Battle of Brains

This film illustrates the difference between World War II and the war of 1914, emphasizing the impor...

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Children from Overseas
Children from Overseas

A WWII film about children evacuated from Britain and sent to Canada for their safety. The film begi...

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Atlantic Patrol
Atlantic Patrol

This short documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada's eastern ports during WWII is th...

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Age of Turmoil
Age of Turmoil

An afternoon and evening in the complicated lives of six teenagers....

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Heroes of the Atlantic
Heroes of the Atlantic

A view from Canada of the North Atlantic convoy route during the Battle of the Atlantic, presented i...

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The Canadian Conspiracy
The Canadian Conspiracy

A mockumentary illustrating a supposed conspiracy to infiltrate American culture through employing C...

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The Little Brown Burro
The Little Brown Burro

A sad little burro who feels that no one wants him and that he doesn't belong anywhere finds out dif...

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Ordeal by Ice
Ordeal by Ice

This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. The secret winter manoeuvres of the ...

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Bonanza: Ride the Wind
Bonanza: Ride the Wind

The Pony Express opens up an office in Virginia City. Despite being an investor, Ben objects to Joe ...

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The Mask of Nippon
The Mask of Nippon

An anti-Japanese propaganda film produced during World War II....

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Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic...

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The Edge of Innocence
The Edge of Innocence

An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her bro...

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Break-through
Break-through

On June 6, 1944, supported by an immense naval armada, Allied troops, including the First Canadian A...

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Fighting Sea-Fleas
Fighting Sea-Fleas

First half of film portrays life in port, including rum issue, distribution of letters, and taking o...

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Train Busters
Train Busters

This short film depicts the strength and resources of the Royal Canadian Air Force, with its 32 over...

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Trans-Canada Express
Trans-Canada Express

This short documentary from the Canada Carries On series celebrates the contribution of Canada’s rai...

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Now—The Peace
Now—The Peace

Short film produced and directed in 1945 for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in A...

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High Country Calling
High Country Calling

Nature study of a photographer raising a pack of wolf cubs. Narrated by Lorne Greene....

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The Legend of Amaluk: An Arctic Journey
The Legend of Amaluk: An Arctic Journey

Nature film that takes place in the Yukon as it follows am Eskimo named Amaluk...

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Gateway to Asia
Gateway to Asia

This short film highlights the province of British Columbia and its position after World War II. Loc...

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Suffer Little Children
Suffer Little Children

This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series. At the end of World War II there wer...

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Headline Hunters
Headline Hunters

Headline Hunters is an 11-minute 1945 Canadian documentary film, part of the wartime Canada Carries ...

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Mayerling
Mayerling

Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunti...

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The War Is Over
The War Is Over

A short film about the end of World War II and Canada's contribution to the effort....

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Meaning of Adolescence
Meaning of Adolescence

An overview of the social, emotional, mental and physical changes which occur in the adolescent with...

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What's on Your Mind
What's on Your Mind

The treatment of mental illness and psychological disorders--including electroshock therapy--brought...

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1984
1984

George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting ...

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The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy ...

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Nevada Smith
Nevada Smith

A half-breed gunslinger and a friend he hasn't seen in years join together to escort a shipment of e...

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A Capital Plan
A Capital Plan

This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadia...

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Tomorrow's Citizens
Tomorrow's Citizens

Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new ...

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A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hos...

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Aldo Leopold 1: His Life and Thought
Aldo Leopold 1: His Life and Thought

Narrated by Lorne Greene (Bonanza), this classic documentary presents the biography of Aldo Leopold ...

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Aldo Leopold 2: A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold 2: A Sand County Almanac

This classic program, narrated by Lorne Greene (Bonanza), is based on the ecologist's famous book an...

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The Battle for Oil
The Battle for Oil

A Second World War documentary film produced for and by the National Film Board of Canada in 1942 as...

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Pincers on Japan
Pincers on Japan

When the Japanese invade the Aleutian Islands, the Allied forces must push them back....

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Wounded in Action
Wounded in Action

'Wounded in Action' is a 22-minute 1944 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board o...

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Sandy in Disneyland
Sandy in Disneyland

Sandy Duncan hosts an all-star Hollywood cast as she takes us on a tour of Disneyland. But not just...

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Tidal Wave
Tidal Wave

Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single...

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Inside Fighting China
Inside Fighting China

This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression....

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Grierson
Grierson

A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the Nati...

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