Lorne GreeneThe most famous role of Canadian actor Lorne Greene was that of Ben Cartwright, on the TV show "Bonanza" which ran from 1959 until 1973. The intoduction to the show each week is shown below courtesy of YouTube
He also appeared as Commander Adama in the shorter-lived original incarnation of the cult classic sci-fi franchise of "Battlestar Galactica". After graduating as a chemical engineer, he found a job as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and was assigned as the primary newsreader on the CBC National News, where he earned the nickname "The Voice of Canada". In 1957 Greene played the role of the Prosecutor in the socially controversial movie "Peyton Place". The first of his American television roles was as patriarch of the Cartwright family on the long-running western series "Bonanza", which made Greene a household name. He earned the role of Ben Cartwright after giving a stirring performance in a production of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" for the CBS and after the cancellation of the Bonanza series, he became the host for the nature documentary series, "Last of the Wild" which ran during 1974 and 1975. In the TV mini-series "Roots", he played the first owner of the slave, Kunta Kinte, John Reynolds. Greene was also popular as the spokesman for Alpo dog food commercials in the 1970s. Mini-Bio
Internet Movie Database - Lorne Greene
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