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Graham Greene (born June 22 , 1952 ) is a Canadian Actor . He is an Oneida Indian, born in Ohsweken on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario . Greene's first brushes with the entertainment industry came when he was an audio technician for rock bands. He graduated from The Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School program in 1974, and began appearing in theater in Toronto and England . His screen debut was in 1983 in '' Running Brave '', and appeared in such films as '' Revolution '' and '' Powwow Highway '', but it was his Academy Award nominated role as "Kicking Bird" in the 1990 film '' Dances With Wolves '' that brought him stardom. He followed that up with such films as '' Thunderheart '', '' Benefit Of The Doubt '', and '' Maverick '', and on the Television Series '' Northern Exposure '' and '' The Red Green Show ''. He also hosted a True Crime documentary show called ''Exhibit A'' (called ''Secrets of Forensic Science'' in the United States) in 1997. In 1994 he began appearing as Mr. Crabby Tree in the children's series '' The Adventures Of Dudley The Dragon '' for which he received his first and only Gemini Award . In 1997, Greene suffered a major depressive attack, and had to be hospitalized after a police encounter. He survived the ordeal, and subsquently was featured as a Native American on death row in the Oscar-nominated '' The Green Mile '' (1999). He starred in the short-run Television Series '' Wolf Lake '' in 2001. In 2004 he accepted the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement at the Gemini Awards . In 2005, he re-emerged as the potential love interest in '' Transamerica '' of a pre-operative transseuxal woman. He also appeared as himself in a parody of the famous Lakota-brand pain reliever commercials, on CBC Television 's '' Rick Mercer Report ''. In 2006, Greene was the presenter of the documentary series '' The War That Made America '' about the French And Indian War of the mid- 18th Century . SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
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