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Grey Owl

Year:
Duration:
Canada:117 min | Spain:120 min | UK:118 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama | Western
IMDB rate:
6
Director:
Richard Attenborough
Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1999-09-10
Filming Locations: Chelsea, Québec, Canada
Earnings
Budget: $30,000,000
Gross: $632,617 (USA) (1 January 2005)
Cast
Actor
Character
Pierce Brosnan
Archie Grey Owl
Stewart Bick
Cyrus Finney
Vlasta Vrana
Harry Champlin
Annie Galipeau
Pony
Neil Kroetsch
First Hunter
Serge Houde
Second Hunter
Peter Colvey
Hotel Guest
Nathaniel Arcand
Ned White Bear
Jacques Lussier
Hotel Manager
Lee-Roy Jacobs
Hotel Porter
John Dunn-Hill
Sim Hancock
Graham Greene
Jim Bernard
Gordon Masten
Gus Mitchell
Chip Chuipka
First Trapper
John Walsh
Second Trapper
David Fox
Jim Wood
Annabelle Torsein
Hiker
Marcel Jeannin
Hiker
Kent McQuaid
Hiker
Matthew Sharp
Hiker Hawkins
Charles Edwin Powell
Walter Perry (as Charles Powell)
Seann Gallagher
Bill Oliver
James Bradford
Tom Walker
Noel Burton
Southampton Reporter
Renée Asherson
Carrie Belaney
Stephanie Cole
Ada Belaney
Richard Jutras
Halifax Reporter
Art Kitching
Halifax Reporter
Pierre Lenoir
Halifax Reporter
Norris Domingue
Halifax Reporter
Al Vandecruys
Immigration Officer (as Al Vandercruys)
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
Pow Wow Chief (as Floyd Crow Westerman)
Saginaw Grant
Pow Wow Chief
Gene Blackbird
Wabiken Lodge Dancer
Lindsey Cote
Wabiken Lodge Dancer
Arnold Jocks
Wabiken Lodge Dancer
Tahatie Montour
Wabiken Lodge Dancer
Rene Tonda Splicer Kiepprien
Wabiken Lodge Dancer
Donald J. White
Wabiken Lodge Dancer
Kevin Peltier
Wabiken Lodge Dancer
Donald Swamp
Wabiken Lodge Dancer
Gerald McDonald
Lead Wabiken Lodge Drummer
Michael MacDonald
Wabiken Lodge Drummer
Narcisse Kakegabon
Wabiken Lodge Drummer
Timothy Eashappie
Lead Pow Wow Dancer
Frank Buswa
Pow Wow Dancer
Vernon Cardinal
Pow Wow Dancer
Josie Cox
Pow Wow Dancer
Donald Dowd
Pow Wow Dancer
Hilliard Friday
Pow Wow Dancer
Les Harper
Pow Wow Dancer
David Herman
Pow Wow Dancer
Joseph McLeod
Pow Wow Dancer
Dylan Manitopyes
Pow Wow Dancer
Brian Moore
Pow Wow Dancer
Gordie Odjig
Pow Wow Dancer
Gary Parker
Pow Wow Dancer
Ron Ranville
Pow Wow Dancer
Steve Sands
Pow Wow Dancer
Dwight 'Bucko' Teeple
Pow Wow Dancer
Denis Whiteye
Pow Wow Dancer
Larry Yazzie
Pow Wow Dancer
Steve Wood
Lead Pow Wow Drummer
Elmer Baptiste
Pow Wow Drummer
Shane Dion
Pow Wow Drummer
Aaron McGilvery
Pow Wow Drummer
Bradley McGilvery
Pow Wow Drummer
Ferlin McGilvery
Pow Wow Drummer
Cecil Nepoose
Pow Wow Drummer
Leroy Whitstone
Pow Wow Drummer
John Canoe
Mohawk Nation Member
Craig Gauthier
Hiker
King George VI
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jeffrey Lee
Chief's Counselman (Ending Scene) (uncredited)
Princess Margaret
Herself (with her parents) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Queen Elizabeth II
Herself (with her parents) (uncredited)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The movie was never given a theatrical release in the United States.
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Filmed in 1998, but not released until the end of 2000.
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Goofs
When Grey Owl's publisher Champlin arrives by airplane, to convince Grey Owl to go on tour in England, the airplane shown is clearly a DeHavilland DHC-2 "Beaver" on floats. This scene is set in approximately 1935, but the DeHavilland Beaver did not make its first flight until 1947.
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When Archie is skinning a deer he has it hung up by the neck. Normally game is hung by the hind legs and bled from the neck before it is skinned or butchered.
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Quotes
Pow Wow Chief: A man becomes what he dreams... you dreamed well.
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Cyrus Finney: He never spoke in public again. That night, when we watched Archie strip away all pretense of being an Indian; I knew that what he was saying was far more important than who he really was. Afterwards, he slipped silently into the night and went back to his remote cabin on Lake Ajawaan. He died there, suddenly, of pneumonia, two years later, in April, 1938. In recognition of what Archie was trying to achieve, the North Bay Nugget agreed to hold my story while he lived. They ran it the day after he died, and it made front page all over the world. Pony never stopped campaigning against trapping and, slowly, because of what she and Archie did, there were laws passed to protect the beaver, and they returned to the lakes and streams of Canada. But once his true identity was revealed, Archie's early warning about the natural world, about keeping it safe for future generations was quickly dismissed and then... conveniently forgotten. Only many years later, when the truth could no longer be ignored, did he come to be seen... as a man ahead of his time.
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Photos from cast
Jimmy Herman
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