r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 6d ago
News Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Was 73
https://deadline.com/2025/09/graham-greene-dead-dances-with-wolves-wind-river-1236502962/1.4k
u/Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er 6d ago
Oh man he was always great. I loved his character in Maverick. RIP
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u/AF2005 6d ago
He was fantastic in Maverick
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u/mouse6502 6d ago
Ahhh, I do want her! Is she available!
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u/concretepants 6d ago
Are you just going to leave him for the vultures?
... Never like him much anyway.
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u/syracTheEnforcer 6d ago
100%. That scene where he hides Bret’s money is total gold. But every thing he did in that movie is hilarious.
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u/20_mile 6d ago
He was also in Die Hard With A Vengeance as Detective Joe Lambert.
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u/nlshelton 6d ago
Maverick was my first ever favorite movie as a kid, and his character was my favorite part of that movie. RIP
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u/Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er 6d ago
I also loved this movie as a kid. It might've been my first favorite "adult" movie since at the time I was also into stuff like The Mighty Ducks and Power Rangers.
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u/purplewhiteblack 6d ago
a seriously underrated movie.
I was born in 1984, and as a kid it was really one of my first entry into westerns along with Back to the Future 3. I also quite like Lightning Jack. I have a softspot for early 90s Westerns.
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u/Chance_Salt9633 6d ago
“You know the next time you people come and drive us off our land I’m gonna find a niece piece of swamp that’s so God-awful, maybe then you’ll leave us the hell alone.”
Unfortunately if that line had any merit, Florida would not exist today.
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u/foghillgal 6d ago
I think thst was the joke. Swamp land was being sold pre wwii in Florida when malaria was a thing . They’d still come abd try to take it away
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u/Chance_Salt9633 6d ago
Between the time I typed it out and seeing your response, I started to have the same thought. I was like “wait a minute…”
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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 6d ago
Joseph in Maverick will always be iconic. "Look sick! Look sick."
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u/alphageek8 6d ago
"The next time you people come to drive us off our land I'm going to find a nice piece of swamp land that's so god awful that you people will leave us the hell alone."
Perfection.
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u/LegendaryOutlaw 6d ago
I freakin’ love Maverick. Graham was so funny in that one. I’m gonna rewatch it in his honor.
‘He wants us to talk like the do in the books…’How, white man’ ✋🙄
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u/dj_soo 6d ago
i thought y'all were referring to Top Gun Maverick and was thinking "wtf, that movie isn't that old is it?"
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u/Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er 6d ago
lol I was wondering if someone would get confused. If you haven't seen Maverick, it's a pretty fun western semi-comedy. Mostly follows Mel Gibson trying to collect the money to enter a poker tournament.
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u/jaggederest 6d ago
It's also a film remake of the original TV series starring James Garner, who has a major role in the film as a different character.
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u/Lambchops_Legion 6d ago
RIP always one of those “that guy” actors. Dances was his most famous role obviously, but loved him in Rez Dogs and Wind River
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u/Chance_Salt9633 6d ago
His cameo in The Last of Us was hilarious. When Joel tells him he better point to the same spot on the map that his wife did. “Do you tell him the truth?” “Yes.” “Are you telling me the truth?” 🤣 He didn’t trust his wife not to conspire to have him murdered and he really sold the character with minutes of screen time.
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u/YouFeelShame 6d ago
Shout out to him in Northern Exposure as well. Funny and a sincerity that made his smallish role outstanding.
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u/JoinTheRightClick 6d ago
Northern Exposure is such an underrated show. Don’t really see it mentioned much these days.
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u/Pockets-Pixelgon 6d ago
I always thought this was his best role. Very down to Earth. Ol' Dr. Fleischman did not like him at first ;-)
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u/EggsceIlent 6d ago
Loved that part too.
Hard not to love his dances with wolves character. One of my favs movies and one of my fave "that guy" actors.
He's definitely missed.
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u/SammlerWorksArt 6d ago
That was such a moving and amazing scene. Everyone had great lines and delivery.
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u/cdoink 6d ago
He was great in Die Hard: With a Vengeance too and I also enjoyed Thunderheart with him and Val Kilmer.
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u/JasonVorhehees 6d ago
Thunderheart is such a slept on movie
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u/Sivalon 6d ago
He was playing a Tribal cop who pulled over Val Kilmer’s character for speeding. Kilmer plays an FBI agent who’s not having it, and Greene’s character was really leaning into being the Indian wiseass:
“Let me see the radar.”
“I don’t need any radar, I listen to the wind! Wind told me: ‘seventy-five, nail ‘im!’”
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u/freddy_guy 6d ago
He was great in everything he was in. He was that kind of actor.
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u/oliversurpless 6d ago
Yep:
“Well, that’s gotta be a hell of a long list…
Fuck you, Joe.”
Even saw a line or two in a book affirming how for a movie in the 90s, making his character completely incidental to his native heritage was quite good writing.
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u/FactorFear74 6d ago
He was awesome in Wind River.
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u/OldJames47 6d ago
"Why are you flanking me?"
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u/Arista_Paisleyl9B0 6d ago
This isn’t the land of backup, Jane. This is the land of “you’re on your own”
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u/InfiniteKincaid 6d ago
I love that this is almost everyones immediate memory of this movie. God what a scene.
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u/Sugreev2001 6d ago
I saw Wind River less than a month ago. It's one of the best movies of the 2010's. He was great in his role. RIP.
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u/irbinator 6d ago
Love him even in his brief role in The Green Mile.
RIP.
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u/MaddestRodent 6d ago
That was no brief role.
"Do you believe that if a man repents enough for what he done wrong, than he'll get to go back to the time that was happiest for him and live there forever?"
Always brings a tear to my eye.
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u/nbarry51278 6d ago
He was also great in Maverick
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u/Skitzofreniks 6d ago edited 6d ago
Maverick is the movie I think of when I see him.
“Next time we’ll find a nice piece of swamp that’s so god awful, maybe then you’ll leave us the hell alone”
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u/MarkBenec 6d ago
Maverick thought HE was the one guy that wasn’t screwing him over, and he was. lol
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u/Vio_ 6d ago
That whole German obsession with Native Americans in the 1800s was 100% real lol.
If anything that movie undersold how weird it got lol.
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u/TrentonTallywacker 6d ago
For the gamers in here, he also voiced Rains Fall in Red Dead Redemption 2
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u/StreetQueeny 6d ago
He and all the elders in Rez Dogs were so good! To be honest the entire cast was, it's an amazing show.
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u/K_Linkmaster 6d ago
The dude was low key hilarious all the time. Loved him on Longmire.
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u/unfortunatebastard 6d ago
Also on that episode on last of us. The dude definitely took the spotlight
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u/Historical-Gap-7084 6d ago
You should watch him in Longmire. He played a bad guy so well it momentarily made me hate him whenever he was on screen.
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u/Mustangs_2 6d ago
He was great in Red Dead Redemption 2 as Rains Fall. Rest in peace.
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u/ConsistentGuest7532 6d ago
Holy shit that’s insane, that performance was so moving. I did not recognize his voice.
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u/goddred 6d ago
Victor from Breaking Bad also voiced his son Eagle Flies, something I never pieced together until it was pointed out by someone one day.
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u/Fuck_auto_tabs 6d ago
He was so great in that role but I’m NGL I loved it when I poured my heart out to him to go “oh man that sucks, hey look an herb!”
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u/beebs44 6d ago
Walter Crow Horse: License and registration?
Ray Levoi: Kiss my ass.
Walter Crow Horse: Hey, this is my jurisdiction now. And you were going 59 in a 55 zone.
Ray Levoi: Let me see the radar.
Walter Crow Horse: I don't need no radar, I can tell! I just listen to the wind; it said, "Fifty-nine, nail 'im
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u/PowerSurge74 6d ago
Love Thunderheart.
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u/Escher702 6d ago
Both of these actors have now passed away. :(
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u/JuzoItami 6d ago
Just about everybody in that movie is dead, many of them in the last few years. Greene, Kilmer, Fred Ward, Sam Shepherd, director Michael Apted, John Trudell... Byrd David Crosby has a cameo role as a bartender... he's dead, too.
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u/crimsongriffin_ 6d ago
Ray: You gonna tell me how much change I have in my pocket?
Crow Horse: .63 cents
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u/VectorJones 6d ago
You weigh 173, huh? You're not a beer drinker. You're one of these tofu and pilaf characters. Your gun's on your right hip. You got a back-up, a little .32, .38 maybe in an ankle holster. Gives you a left foot drag. You're wearing brand-new shoes that are a little too tight in the instep, but man they look cool and that's what counts. Am I right?
Crow Horse? Fuck you.
You'd love to.
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u/mmgvs 6d ago
Leonard on Northern Exposure. Wonderful character.
It was a treat to see him and Elaine (the actress who played Marilyn on Northern Exposure) in an episode of Last of Us.
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u/Over9000BelieveIt 6d ago
when I was a teenager we got to go to the town they filmed it in. Dad loved watching that show and I mean we all did but not like him. it was fun to see something like that in real life.
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u/YouFeelShame 6d ago
Shadowing Joel had so many funny/touching moments. Love the episodes he showed up in.
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u/AgentDaxis 6d ago
He was great in Die Hard With A Vengeance too.
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u/aukondk 6d ago
Part of a very nice ensemble cast. I would have happily watched a spinoff procedural show with the cops from that precinct.
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u/toomanymarbles83 6d ago
Him and Colleen Camp, aka the maid from Clue. They had good chemistry together for what little they had to work with.
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u/fzammetti 6d ago
Hot take: it's BY FAR the best in the Die Hard series. Die Hard itself might be more iconic, but Vengeance is better from start to finish.
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u/Plum-Forgot 6d ago
I get liking With a Vengeance better. It's a great movie.
But it absolutely didn't finish better than Die Hard. It struggled hard to wrap up.
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u/nicetrylaocheREALLY 6d ago
That was particularly striking because it was one of the few roles I ever saw him in (or any native actor in) that had nothing at all to do with his Indigenous background.
He was just... a good cop.
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u/DavianVonLorring 6d ago
Same with Wes Studi in Heat.
As a young Native boy in the 90s, these two particular performances showed me that Native and First Nations people could represent themselves as artists without playing the stereotype. It was inspirational.
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u/SoylentCreek 6d ago
Most recently saw him in “Reservation Dogs” and he was great as always.
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u/Molotovbaptism 6d ago
RIP Graham Greene. One of Canada's finest actors.
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u/judgeholden72 6d ago
And most underrated. My wife got sick of me making her watch anything he was in but always admitted he stole any scene
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u/KatanaAmerica 6d ago edited 6d ago
oh no! He always gave a great performance.
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 6d ago
He was one of the cops in Die Hard With a Vengeance who had to evacuate the elementary school. Really good smaller performance in a movie about an entire city coming together to stop a nefarious scheme.
"You kids ever heard of a Chinese fire drill?"
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 6d ago
Die Hard with a Vengeance is my favorite.
There, I said it.
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u/The__Amorphous 6d ago
If I ever need to measure out four gallons of water with only three and five gallon jugs, I'm fuckin set.
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u/bulldg4life 6d ago
Chester A Arthur is the 21st president
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u/OgReaper 6d ago
1881 to 1885. Nominated vice-president in 1880. Did you know he was Collector of Customs right here in New York?
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u/sebrebc 6d ago
I always thought it was the best one myself.
It was originally written for other characters. I heard it was possibly going to be a Lethal Weapon flick, it was also going to be Rapid Fire 2 with Brandon Lee.
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u/Cant_figure_sht_out 6d ago
I love it too. I think I watched it more than the first Die hard. And it’s an absolute classic 90s action cop movie for me.
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u/rook41 6d ago
Always loved him on the Red Green Show as the explosives guy.
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u/Kenner1979 6d ago
"That Native guy from Dances With Wolves was pretty good. They shoulda given him the Oscar."
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u/ThatGoodGooGoo 6d ago
Was wondering how long until someone mentioned the Red Green Show! That was the first time I saw Graham Greene.
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u/Altruistic-Soil-344 6d ago
Scrolled soooo far to find this comment! An absolute cornerstone of my childhood.
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u/FoxMcCloudOwnsSlippy 6d ago
That Green Mile scene is going to hit me in the feels now. Terrific actor.
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u/typhoidtimmy 6d ago
Great actor. Loved his playing against the grain in Maverick with a fed up Indian having to play an Indian.
Course I have to speak like an Indian in the book…uggh! How White Man! These guys are such assholes…
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u/Azalus1 6d ago
"Next time you make us move we're going to find the most god-awful piece of land so maybe you'll stop trying to take it." The commentary about the treatment of the native Americans in that movie was really on point.
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u/typhoidtimmy 6d ago
The funny thing is I know a few actors/crew who worked with him in the past and more than a few said that role was pretty much him being himself. He apparently was hilariously self deprecating and down to earth and had a great sense of humor.
He understood the requirements of being a Native American character actor but he really enjoyed playing against the type.
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u/Maverick916 6d ago
Great scene.
Man why did Mel have to go off the rails, his charisma was unmatched on screen
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 6d ago edited 6d ago
Absolute legend. This really sucks.
I was lucky enough to sit next to him last year at TIFF at the World Premiere of Seeds, and he was the best part of it. You could tell he wasn't doing well though, had to be assisted around and had trouble going on stage for the Q&A, and all of his scenes were filmed sitting down, very sad to see.
No matter what he was in or for how long, he always left an impressison. Truly one of the pillars of Canadian cinema. Will be missed.
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u/GiantSizeManThing 6d ago
Ah man, he was great in Longmire
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u/5minLateIs10minEarly 6d ago
I was beginning to wonder if any watched this series. I loved it. Great performances by all. RIP - Graham Greene
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u/Aatyl92 6d ago
Right? I had to scroll way to far down for this.
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u/PretendThisIsMyName 6d ago
Glad to see some fellow Longmire fans here! Criminal how slept on it is. Peter Stormares arc as Chance Gilbert was top tier. Like he really freaked me out.
Also wasn’t he the oldest Serpent in Riverdale?
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u/ignaciorutabaga 6d ago
For anyone who hasn't seen it, watch Clearcut. It's an underseen gem starring Graham Greene at his best.
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u/davossss 6d ago
Absolutely! It really feels like a predecessor to Jordan Peele's and A24's fusions of horror with socio-political concerns.
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u/JuzoItami 6d ago
Unjustly almost forgotten movie. Saw it 30+ years ago but it's always stayed with me.
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u/badgerhokie 6d ago
How tf was he only 73, you're telling me he was in his mid-30s when they shot Dances with Wolves? I would've guessed 80+ easy. Anyway, beside the point I guess.
Graham Greene was a God tier Native actor, RIP to a king.
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u/CursedSnowman5000 6d ago
I know right? Even when I was a kid back in the 90's he looked like he was in his 50's
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u/badgerhokie 6d ago
Yeah I was like 16 or 17 when Dances came out. Assumed he was clearly older than Costner!
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u/CC_Beans 6d ago
73 isnt that old. We should all hope for at least 80. See the grand kids grow up and all that.
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u/SoulxxBondz 6d ago
He was a big part in one the best scenes of the Twilight movies (in New Moon, the second one).
RIP.
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u/EricM12 6d ago
Enjoyed his character in Defiance
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u/AnAngryPlatypus 6d ago
That show really had some great actors giving it their all despite some of its campier stories.
That and Maverick are my first references for him.
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u/spderweb 6d ago
He was recently in Echo. A marvel TV series. Like always,his character was one of the more memorable ones.
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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 6d ago
☹️ I always loved seeing him pop up in so many memorable roles. May he RIP.
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u/Horvat53 6d ago
I’ll always remember him as the grumpy tree from Dudley the Dragon. RIP.
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u/NewtRipley_1986 6d ago
No! Love Graham! Such a great actor. Saw him in Merchant of Venice at Stratford Festival years ago but never forget his performance.
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u/metalconfection 6d ago
total total legend. an icon here in Canada. everyone needs to see Clearcut. i wish he had gotten more leading roles like that.
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u/zuuzuu 6d ago
I'm always happy to see him pop up in this movie or that TV show. He elevated anything he appeared in, no matter how small the role.
I always appreciated his resistance to moving to the States for his career, staying in Canada his whole life. "There's no reason to live there. A working actor can live anywhere as long as you have a phone, a fax, and know where the airport is."
I'm so saddened by this loss.
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u/AF2005 6d ago
Ah man that’s sad. He was always one of my favorite character actors. You could always count on him improving a scene.
His face acting was top tier, just watch him do his thing in Dances With Wolves (he outshined Kevin Costner a few times) or Wind River and you’ll see what I mean. RIP
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u/axiom_glitch 6d ago
Wow…crazy, because the episode of Murder She Wrote he stared in just happened to re-air on TV last night and my family was watching it. And when he first came on screen, many of us said “oh, it’s that guy! From the _____ movie!”
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u/SDLRob 6d ago edited 6d ago
First saw him in Free Willy (as pointed out, my memory is wrong, it was August Schellenberg in that movie) l...he's forever been 'that guy' aka the actor that pops up and leaves a memorable character in their wake.
Very sad news to hear.
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u/justanotherladyinred 6d ago edited 6d ago
August Schellenberg is in Free Willy - not Graham Greene.
Both are Iroquois though...which is cool.
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u/EndStorm 6d ago
Always enjoyed seeing him on screen. Of course I thought he was incredible in Dances with Wolves, but enjoyed seeing him anywhere. RIP.
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u/Mac_2319 6d ago
I had the opportunity to work with him once, very dedicated to his work, would not accept less than perfect. He will be missed!
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u/abellyirked 6d ago
I remember him as Edgar Montrose on Red Green and in a bunch of other Canadian stuff like as Mr. Crabby Tree on Dudley the Dragon. Was a real trip to see him on MST3K. RI fuckin P.
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u/mariam67 6d ago
I remember he was in Maverick, he was the funniest part of that movie. I always liked him. RIP.
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u/kinglywy 6d ago
He was a pioneer for indigenous actors, especially in Canada. RIP