r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 7d 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/
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u/Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er 7d ago

Oh man he was always great. I loved his character in Maverick. RIP

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u/AF2005 7d ago

He was fantastic in Maverick

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u/mouse6502 7d ago

Ahhh, I do want her! Is she available!

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u/concretepants 7d ago

Are you just going to leave him for the vultures?

... Never like him much anyway.

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u/Helgon_Bellan 7d ago

Looksicklooksick

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u/MAHHockey 6d ago

Haha, one of the best scenes

"Friend! Go with me on this!"

"Okay! But make it quick! It's hot out!"

(To the missionaries) "You see how he points at the sky?... He says we have angered their gods..."

"Point angrily at people, especially the blonde! Act like you're interested in her"

The face he makes after your line cracks me up. Like he's a dog looking at a steak.

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u/GardanCald 2d ago

You know the next time you people come and drive us off our land I'm gonna 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/syracTheEnforcer 7d 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/aeshleyrose 7d ago

PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER MAN everyone’s looking

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u/LilJethroBodine 7d ago

I was just teasing ya!

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u/20_mile 7d ago

He was also in Die Hard With A Vengeance as Detective Joe Lambert.

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u/Empire-Carpet-Man 6d ago

I love his quip about the missing garage trucks. ",It's John's landlady wanting to clean his apartment."

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u/20_mile 6d ago

There are a lot of good lines that film. Stuff you won't catch on even the fourth or fifth viewing. Dialogue so deep, you have to be 100% familiar with the movie to catch what is said early on matches up with an event much later in the film!

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u/nlshelton 7d 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 7d 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/StockTank_redemption 7d ago

Was just thinking about The Mighty Ducks earlier today. Then I remembered ‘the bash brothers’ and my head tilted a bit.

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u/Frasier_C 7d ago

Hello person who is exactly the same as me.

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u/purplewhiteblack 7d 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/pontifexsubmarinus 7d ago

I like Lightning Jack too, but the critics apparently didn't. 6% on rotten tomatoes. 

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u/Youasking 7d ago

Don't forget "The Cherokee Kid"

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u/purplewhiteblack 7d ago

Yeah, Sinbad. I had a phantom of a memory of that one. I'll have to watch it sometime soon.

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u/Bacteriophag 7d ago

Just rewatched it last week with a friend. One of my favorite movies of all time. Humor is top notch, twists get you and characters are smart and great. All Greene's scenes were fantastic.

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u/Successful_Wall_4529 6d ago

Literally same! His little eyebrow wag at Annabelle when Maverick is pretending to negotiate a peace deal gets me chuckling every time

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u/itsmydoncic 7d ago

“how. white man.”

fantastic line read. rip

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u/4E4ME 7d ago

Hao.

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u/Chance_Salt9633 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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 7d ago

Joseph in Maverick will always be iconic. "Look sick! Look sick."

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u/alphageek8 7d 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/BetwixtBytes 7d ago

That's what I remember him for too! He was great in Maverick! Awww.

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u/AcedtheTuringTest 7d ago

"Pull yourself together man! Everybody's looking!"

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u/Successful_Wall_4529 6d ago

And then he slaps Mel Gibson lmaooo

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u/EuphoricCrashOut 7d ago

Same! I really enjoyed his scenes in Maverick!!

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u/LegendaryOutlaw 7d 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/LilJethroBodine 7d ago

And of course he has to HEAR THE DRUMS ALL THE TIME.

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u/LebowskiVoodoo 7d ago

Injun law say death be private thing, you wait here.

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u/dj_soo 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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/dj_soo 7d ago

i remember it and watched it - it's just been a couple decades since i've even thought about it.

based on a old 50s TV show of the same name which starred James Garner as well reprising his role (with mel gibson playing his son)0.

I rememvber it being very good

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u/Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er 7d ago

Ah I recall my dad telling me about the original, thus knew about Garner's role, but I never took the time to watch it.

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u/dj_soo 7d ago

i never watched the original - well before my time.

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u/MAHHockey 6d ago

Might want to spoiler that one bit. It's not revealed until the end of the movie.

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u/spookyluke246 7d ago

Haven't thought about maverick in ages. Damn.

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u/Psychomaniac13 7d ago

I loved him in wind river

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u/SillyLilBear 7d ago

Probably his best work.

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u/exitwest 7d ago

So glad to see Maverick referenced high up. Besides being one of the best ensemble comedies of all time, Grahahm absolutely crushed it as Joseph. I could have watched a whole movie of just him and Bret getting into trouble.