Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on February 12th, 1915 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 72, Lorne Greene biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Lorne Hyman Greene (born Lyon Himan Greene; 1915-1915 – September 1987) was a Canadian actor, radio personality, and singer. Ben Cartwright, the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the first science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980, among his television appearances include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza and Commander Adama.
He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series Lorne Greene's New Wilderness and in television commercials.
Personal life
Greene was married twice, first to Rita Hands of Toronto (1938-1960, divorced). According to some, the couple's marriage began in 1940. They had two children, twins, born in 1945: Charles Greene and Belinda Susan Bennett. Nancy Deale (1961-1987, Greene's death), with whom he had one child, Gillian Dania Greene, who married director Sam Raimi, was his second wife.
The Ponderosa II House was constructed by Greene in Mesa, Arizona, in 1960. It is located at 602 S. Edgewater Drive. It's a recreation of the Bonanza set house on the former Ponderosa Ranch in Incline Village, Nevada. It is included in the Mesa Historic Property Register.
Early life and career in Canada
Greene was born in Ottawa, Ontario, to Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, Dora (née Grinovsky) and Daniel Green, a shoemaker, and Daniel Greene, a shoemaker. On his school report cards, he was branded "Chaim" by his mother, and his name is listed as "Hyman" in his school report cards. Linda Greene Bennett's book about him, she said it was unknown when he first used the name Lorne or when he added an "e" to Green.
Greene, the drama instructor at Camp Arowhon, a summer camp in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada, where he learned his skills.
Greene began acting at Queen's University in Kingston, where he developed a natural knack for broadcasting with the university's Drama Guild's Radio Workshop on the campus radio station CFRC.
He left a career in chemical engineering and took up a job as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation after graduation.
Greene served as a Flying Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
He was named as the principal newsreader on CBC National News later that day. Following Canada's participation in World War II in 1939, the CBC gave him the title "The Voice of Canada." However, several listeners would refer to him as "The Voice of Doom" instead, particularly because he was delegated the task of reading the dreaded list of soldiers killed in the conflict.
Greene invented a stopwatch that ran backwards in his radio days (i.e. It would begin with a given number and count down to zero; this helped radio announcers determine how much time was left while speaking.
Greene also narrated documentary films, including the National Film Board of Canada's Combat Norway (1943), during his CBC radio career (1943).
After the war, Greene left the CBC and became a freelancer, when the network ordered employees announcers to turn over a significant amount of any money earned from film narration. Greene returned to acting on stage and in radio plays while also being the newsreader for private radio station CKEY in Toronto.
Greene, who graduated from the Academy of Radio Arts in 1952, migrated to the United States. Katharine Cornell performed him twice in her Broadway appearances. He appeared in The Prescott Proposals in 1953. The Dark is Light Enough - Christopher Fry cast him in a verse drama The Dark is the Light Enough in the same year. In the 1950s, greene appeared in rare episodes on live television. He appeared in the title role of a one-hour version of Shakespeare's Othello in 1953. In 1954, he made his Hollywood debut as Saint Peter in The Silver Chalice and appeared in several more films and shows on American television. He appeared in the British television series Sailor of Fortune in 1955. Ludwig van Beethoven appeared in an episode of You Are There, but he also appeared as Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Stratford Festival in 1955. Greene appeared in Peyton Place in 1957 as the prosecutor.
