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- Based on a true story, Grey Owl is the story of Archibald Belaney, an Englishman who emigrated to Canada in 1906, and worked as a trapper, guide and forest ranger.
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Grey Owl is a 1999 biopic directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Pierce Brosnan in the role of real-life British schoolboy turned Native American trapper "Grey Owl", Archibald Belaney (1888–1938), and Annie Galipeau as his wife Anahareo, with brief appearances by Graham Greene and others.
Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938), commonly known as Grey Owl, was a popular writer, public speaker and conservationist. Born an Englishman, in the latter years of his life he passed as half-Indian, claiming he was the son of a Scottish man and an Apache woman.
Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping.
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- Biography, Drama, Western
- Richard Attenborough
- 1999-10-01
Based on a true story, Grey Owl is the story of Archibald Belaney, an Englishman who emigrated to Canada in 1906, and worked as a trapper, guide and forest ranger.
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- October 1, 1999
- Richard Attenborough
Based on a true story, Grey Owl is the story of Archibald Belaney, an Englishman who emigrated to Canada in 1906, and worked as a trapper, guide and forest ranger.
- Richard Attenborough
- Remstar Distribution
- Richard Attenborough, Jake Eberts
The story begins with him as a solitary fur-trapper and chronicles a two-year period in which he became a committed environmentalist. It's based on a real historic figure, whose true identity was not exposed until after his death, although the film's position is that it basically wasn't a big deal. Attenborough is the…
Grey Owl was a real historic figure, and someone could probably do something interesting with his story, but what Attenborough seems to find most compelling and noble about him is that he sacrificed his WASP identity to become a lower caste.
