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Lorne Greene
Age: 72 (passed away Sep. 11th, 1987)
Height: 6' 0 1/2"
Birth Place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Born: Feb. 12th, 1915
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BIOGRAPHY: Canadian-born Lorne Greene began acting while attending Canada's Queen's University, and after graduation got a job in radio broadcasting. His rich, deep, authoritarian voice quickly propelled him to prominence as Canada's top newscaster. He left Canada in the early 1950s for a film career in Hollywood, and soon began appearing regularly in television, films and on radio. His greatest successes came in two television series, the long-running Western "Bonanza" (1959), in which he played the patriarch of a wealthy frontier family, and the sci-fi series "Battlestar Galactica" (1978).
TRIVIA:
- Attended Lisgar Collegiate, Ottawa, Ontario.
- Once played George Wahington in a short film produced for the National Park Service.
- Just before his death, Greene had signed on to reprise the role of Ben Cartwright in a TV-movie revival of "Bonanza."
- He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on June 27, 1969 for his services to the performing arts and community.
- He was scheduled to appear in a flashback scene using archival footage on the new Battlestar Galactica TV series, but the plan fell through.
- When he was an announcer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the early years of World War II, he was nicknamed "The Voice of Doom" for the combination of his deep voice and the usually gloomy news reports about the war he had to read.
- Died the same day as 'Peter Tosh' (qv).
- He is the only actor to appear in every episode of both _"Battlestar Galactica" (1978)_ (qv) and _"Galactica 1980" (1980)_ (qv).
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