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- BFI identifier502490
- Date1998 (Copyright)
2000-11-03 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, Canada
- Production company
- SynopsisDrama based on true events. A trapper known as Archie Grey Owl, who has become an outspoken environmentalist, is discovered by a newspaper reporter to be in fact an Englishman named Archibald Belaney, who, obsessed with North American Indians, left Hastings for Canada as a young man and went into the trapping trade. When he fell in love with a woman named Pony he began to care for beavers and he turned his back on his trapping and began to write books and speak in the cause of leaving nature to thrive without killing animals for greed. His 'double' existence only became known to the world after his death in 1938. (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe 'newsreel' footage of the car taking Grey Owl to Buckingham Palace is taken from the film 'Gandhi' (1982).
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- CreditsDirected by: Richard Attenborough
©/Co-produced by: Beaver Productions Ltd
©/Co-produced by: Ajawaan Productions Inc.
view all - CastPierce Brosnan (Archibald S. Belaney, 'Archie Grey Owl')
Annie Galipeau (Anahareo Bernard, 'Pony')
Renée Asherson (Aunt Carrie Belaney)
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Title
Grey Owl (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/FEDA-36C9-D91E-3E56-1523-NCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- StillsPhotograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00m-rfy
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-rfx
Photograph: print - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-rfw
Photograph: print - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-rfv
Photograph: print - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-rfu
view all - ArticlesSight and Sound v14 n9 September 2004 - DVD ReviewMusic from the Movies n29 October 2000 - Soundtrack ReviewVariety 4 Oct 1999 - Credits, Review, SynopsisScreen International n1165 03 Jul 1998 - Credits, Prod. DetailsScreen International n1153 10 Apr 1998 - Prod. Detailsview all
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- Grey Owl
Work - 502490 - 1998 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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