Lorne Greene

What strikes me about Lorne Greene is how thoroughly he reinvented the idea of a TV patriarch. As Ben Cartwright on Bonanza, he was the steady moral center of one of the longest-running Westerns ever, then decades later he commanded the original Battlestar Galactica as Adama. That span tells me he had a voice and presence audiences simply trusted across genres. I also find it telling that this Ottawa-born actor started in journalism and radio before acting, and was honored as an Officer of the Order of Canada. He felt like a bridge between old-school broadcasting authority and modern genre television, and I respect that range.

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Name (English)

Lorne Greene

Name (Japanese)

ローン・グリーン

Reading

ろーん・ぐりーん

Born

February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987

Origin

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Occupation

television actor / singer / journalist / actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

University

Queen's University

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of Canada
• 1970 Golden Plate Award
• 1987 Earle Grey Award
• 2015 Canada's Walk of Fame
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne%20Greene
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550784

Tags

• Ontario
• television actor
• singer
• journalist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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