# RIP Graham Greene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [September 1, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668 "2025-09-01T23:45:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/21 "2025-09-02T17:16:08Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > When I saw your title my reaction was Huh? Hasn’t he been dead for 30 or 40 years? Me, too. Then, I was really sad to see it was the Canadian actor. As been said, he was always memorable in everything he did. My first thought was of _The Last of His Tribe_ where he played Ishi. Wonderful heartbreaking performance, relatively early in his career. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/22 "2025-09-02T17:33:39Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > _Dances with Wolves_ is obviously his most famous appearance, but my favorite screen performance of his is in a movie called _Thunderheart._ The movie’s a little uneven, but Greene is terrific as a sarcastic tribal cop who takes every opportunity to mock the federal agent who’s visiting for an investigation. Yeah, I know it wasn’t the greatest movie, I really love it. Green was great in it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/23 "2025-09-02T18:19:04Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Green was great in it. I really enjoyed his ‘frustrated husband’ portrayal. (The actress who played his wife was good too.) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/24 "2025-09-02T21:13:37Z")
RIP. He was great in _Reservation Dogs_. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan\_myers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@aruvqan\_myers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan_myers)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/25 "2025-09-02T22:25:30Z")
Was a guy on my husband’s first boat in the 80s that was a high steel worker before he enlisted, family business. Athabascan descent. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/26 "2025-09-02T22:42:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Him in Maverick: > > > [@](#): > > > > We get dressed up in war paint and whoop around like idiots. He wants me to speak like they say in books, “How, white man.” You people are such assholes. And he’s got to hear the war drums all the time! > > He’s terrific in it. That character deserved his own movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/27 "2025-09-03T00:08:06Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > That character deserved his own movie I love that he rips of Maverick even after Maverick risks his life. He shorts him on the cash, even then. “Hey, man, you take it all. What are friends for?” ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/28 "2025-09-03T01:01:16Z")
**Thunderheart** is one of my favorite movies and he was excellent in it. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/29 "2025-09-03T01:10:44Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I recommend his 1991 movie **Clearcut** , which he said was his favorite of the films he’d appeared in. Be advised that it has a moment of extreme violence, and is an unexpectedly creepy film. It’s available for rent on YouTube for $2. I might do that. And thanks for the warning. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/30 "2025-09-07T18:56:56Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I recommend his 1991 movie **Clearcut** , which he said was his favorite of the films he’d appeared in. Be advised that it has a moment of extreme violence, and is an unexpectedly creepy film. I watched it last night and it was… interesting. I love the warrior spirit in Native Americans. Thanks again @TreacherousCretin , I enjoyed that. And Graham Greene is (was) a big strong dude! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/31 "2025-09-07T19:04:05Z")
We re-watched _Thunderheart_ the other day, in tribute to Graham; I don’t think I’d seen it since it was in the theaters in the early '90s. His role in it isn’t huge, but he steals the scenes that he’s in; the scene near the end of the film in which he (Walter) and Val Kilmer (Ray) are in the car, and Walter is explaining to Ray that he’s had a vision, is classic Graham Greene: > [@](#): > > You had yourself a vision. A man waits a long time to have a vision, and he may go his whole life without having one. Then along comes some instant Indian with a fucking Rolex and a brand new pair of shoes. A God damn FBI to top it all off, has himself a vision. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/32 "2025-09-07T19:19:45Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Thanks again @TreacherousCretin , I enjoyed that. And Graham Greene is (was) a big strong dude! You’re very welcome. Glad you enjoyed it, it’s certainly not a crowd pleasing movie for everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/33 "2025-09-07T19:59:47Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > You had yourself a vision. A man waits a long time to have a vision, and he may go his whole life without having one. Then along comes some instant Indian with a fucking Rolex and a brand new pair of shoes. A God damn FBI to top it all off, has himself a vision. That’s awesome. He has some good lines, some powerful ones, in _Clearcut_. Wish i remembered, even just one. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/34 "2025-09-07T22:04:03Z")
I’m sorry to hear about his death, and sorrier about the news he had ‘a long illness.’ He was unmatched at ‘dignified yet somewhat amused observation.’ Condolences to his family and friends. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/35 "2025-09-08T02:46:51Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > He has some good lines, some powerful ones, in _Clearcut_. Wish i remembered, even just one. At your service: > **[Clearcut (1991) - Quotes - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101592/quotes/?ref_=tttrv_ov_at_dyk_qu)** > > Clearcut: Directed by Ryszard Bugajski. With Ron Lea, Graham Greene, Michael Hogan, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman. A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging... ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/36 "2025-09-08T11:12:41Z")
@TreacherousCretin that was a good read. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/37 "2025-09-14T06:34:39Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > > [@PastTense](#): > > > > When I saw your title my reaction was Huh? Hasn’t he been dead for 30 or 40 years? > > Me, too. > > Then, I was really sad to see it was the Canadian actor. As been said, he was always memorable in everything he did. My first thought was of _The Last of His Tribe_ where he played Ishi. Wonderful heartbreaking performance, relatively early in his career. Me three, but with a twist. As embarrassing as it is, I wasn’t aware of Graham Greene, the author, when I first saw the Graham of this thread. He is very much part of the tv/ movie cast list of my younger days. At some point, considerably older than you’d want, I stumbled upon the film **Brighton Rock ,** based on the novel written by Graham Greene; then _he_ became _the_ GG in my mind. Back to the OP, what a wonderful presence he was. Yes, his heritage is the basis of most of his roles, but his incredibly emotive eyes and quiet wisdom always come through. Rest easy, sir. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668/38 "2025-09-14T16:17:30Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > At some point, considerably older than you’d want, I stumbled upon the film **Brighton Rock ,** based on the novel written by Graham Greene; then _he_ became _the_ GG in my mind. I knew about it, but also didn’t see it until comparatively recently. I’ve read a good amount of Greene, but I haven’t read that particular book. The movie though was excellent. Tremendous performance by Richard Attenborough. A kind of British film noir. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668.md?page=1)