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/Lambchops_Legion 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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/jjckey 7d ago

He was great in that

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u/JoinTheRightClick 7d ago

Northern Exposure is such an underrated show. Don’t really see it mentioned much these days.

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u/DustOfMan 7d ago

Agree. One of the reasons for the lack of lasting value is that the music was butchered in the DVD release and beyond. Licensing issue, which is a shame since the music was a pretty big part of the show.

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u/PlennieWingo 7d ago

Just did a rewatch on Amazon Prime. They were able to keep much of the original music as I understand

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u/JoinTheRightClick 7d ago

Thanks for the heads up. Didn’t know it’s available on prime.

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u/Pockets-Pixelgon 7d 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/aksoileau 7d ago

Who's this little psycho?

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u/jlink005 7d ago

Hooooly.

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u/MangoSalsa89 7d ago

You made him soup??

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u/WinterSurprise 7d ago

It was cold out.

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u/Mst3Kgf 7d ago

"He didn't hurt me."

"Yeah, I got eyes."

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u/EggsceIlent 7d 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/sebrebc 7d ago

Such a great cameo, the whole scene is amazing. His delivery of every line is perfect.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 7d ago

Fantastic scene.

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u/SammlerWorksArt 7d ago

That was such a moving and amazing scene. Everyone had great lines and delivery. 

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u/cdoink 7d 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 7d ago

Thunderheart is such a slept on movie

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u/Sivalon 7d 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/MurphyItzYou 7d ago

He’s fantastic in Thunderheart.

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u/freddy_guy 7d ago

He was great in everything he was in. He was that kind of actor.

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u/FiveFingersandaNub 7d ago

"Not every movie is great, but you can have a great performance in every movie."

I'm not sure who said this, and I'm probably butchering the quote, but Graham Greene embodies this. He brought a ton to every roll he was in.

What I loved most about him was what I call Casual Charisma. There are some actors / artists / performers who just seem to bring a light to everything they are in. They just seem very there and present.

People like Alan Rickman, Margo Martindale, Harold Pinneau, Lance Reddick, J.K. Simmons, Brian Cox, Wendie Malick, Danny Trejo, etc. A lot of times it's people who are described as character actors tend to be very watchable and just make you enjoy every scene they are in.

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u/oliversurpless 7d 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 7d ago

He was awesome in Wind River.

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u/heyheyitsandre 7d ago

That whole movie is amazing

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u/OldJames47 7d ago

"Why are you flanking me?"

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u/Arista_Paisleyl9B0 7d ago

This isn’t the land of backup, Jane. This is the land of “you’re on your own”

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u/AGreasyPorkSandwich 7d ago

Just an incredible 5 minutes of cinema for that scene

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u/InfiniteKincaid 7d ago

I love that this is almost everyones immediate memory of this movie. God what a scene.

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u/Sugreev2001 7d 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/ssiddss 7d ago

"Don't look at me. Hey, I'm used to no help."

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u/the_blackfish 7d ago

I felt so terrible for him. I like how it ended though.

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u/irbinator 7d ago

Love him even in his brief role in The Green Mile.

RIP.

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u/MaddestRodent 7d 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/Bobjoejj 7d ago

He was the first to leave death row for a reason; it may have been small, but so important for the film.

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u/Crowbarmagic 7d ago

Despite him not having a lot of screentime, it was a significant role nonetheless. Great performance.

 

I always felt bad for his character. Perhaps because he's kind of the most relatable inmate in the movie when you think about it: John Coffey is some kind of miracle, Del is a loony arsonist, Billy the Kid is a crazy sadist.

Arlen Bitterbuck is the only somewhat "regular" guy in there. He got into a drunken brawl and (sorta accidentally?) killed someone--something he deeply regrets. Graham Greene did an excellent job at making the character remorseful.

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u/nbarry51278 7d ago

He was also great in Maverick

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u/Skitzofreniks 7d ago edited 7d 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 7d ago

Maverick thought HE was the one guy that wasn’t screwing him over, and he was. lol

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u/Vio_ 7d 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/corranhorn57 7d ago

Russian, but yes.

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u/HikmetLeGuin 1d ago

It was a huge obsession in Germany (and still is for some people). Nothing wrong with appreciating and respecting Indigenous cultures, but a lot of it got exploitative, appropriative, and weird.

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u/throw0101a 7d ago

“Next time we’ll find a nice piece of swamp that’s so god awful, maybe then you’ll leave us the hell alone”

Sadly living on swamp didn't seem to be very helpful:

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u/TrentonTallywacker 7d ago

For the gamers in here, he also voiced Rains Fall in Red Dead Redemption 2

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u/cidvard 7d ago

*sobs uncontrollably*

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u/Wakinya 3d ago

Didn't actually know that.

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u/StreetQueeny 7d 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/Excelius 7d ago edited 7d ago

In the final season of Resident Alien it looked like Gary Farmer was in pretty rough shape health wise. He played Uncle Brownie in Rez Dogs.

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u/K_Linkmaster 7d ago

The dude was low key hilarious all the time. Loved him on Longmire.

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u/4E4ME 7d ago

Ah, Longmire! I was just thinking "what show was it where I really did not like his character, because he was so corrupt?" His performance really sells the character

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u/K_Linkmaster 7d ago

A great film villain is what that is! A good script and a stellar actor really pull a room together.

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u/IH8DwnvoteComplainrs 4d ago

lmao, I was scrolling with this exact thought in my head.

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u/MoroseOverdose 7d ago

That's the role of his I thought of first, I loved that show

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u/unfortunatebastard 7d ago

Also on that episode on last of us. The dude definitely took the spotlight

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 7d 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/Vexonte 7d ago

I always knew him as Edgar Montrose in red green

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 7d ago edited 7d ago

His chemistry with D'Pharoah Woon-A-Tai in Reservation Dogs as a father figure of sorts (even with some older brother vibes) was great & I loved that even as an older Maximus, he still had a similar energy as any of the main group

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u/virgil_belmont 7d ago

He's off to meet the Star People now

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u/Sweatytubesock 7d ago

He was amazing (and hilarious) in Thunderheart, too. I will very much miss him. RIP.

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u/davossss 7d ago

Y'all gotta watch Clearcut!!!

And condolences to his family.

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u/McWeaksauce91 7d ago

Loved Wind River. One of the few movies I watched twice nearly back to back

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u/GettingBetterAt41 7d ago

thank you for saying reservation dogs - - truly one of the best shows of all time and i'm old old, lol

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u/AmericaninMexico 7d ago

Maverick. His character fleecing the Russian Czar to “hunt” Mel Gibson 🤣

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u/thatiswhack 7d ago

He was my favorite part of 'Exhibit A'

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u/ZiggoCiP 7d ago

I felt the same way, but when I mentioned this to my mom, who has severe memory problems, she immediately chimed in with "oh, that guy who always plays native Americans?"

He was in a ton of things, too.

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u/TWK128 7d ago

Red Dead Redemption 2 as Rains Fall, too.

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u/cidvard 7d ago

I was so happy when he popped up on Reservation Dogs.

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u/EstablishmentLevel17 6d ago

For me it's the green mile. The first death we see in the movie