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Grey Owl (film)

Grey Owl
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Directed by Richard Attenborough
Produced by Richard Attenborough
Jake Eberts
Claude Léger
Written by William Nicholson
Starring
Music by George Fenton
Cinematography Roger Pratt
Edited by Lesley Walker
Production
company
Distributed by New City Releasing (USA)
20th Century Fox (UK)
Release date
  • 10 September 1999 (1999-09-10) (US)

February 15, 2000 (VHS & DVD release)
Running time
117 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Canada
Language English
Budget $30 million
Box office $632,617

Grey Owl is a 1999 biopic directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Pierce Brosnan in the role of real life British schoolboy turned Indian trapper "Grey Owl," Archibald Belaney (1888–1938), and Annie Galipeau as his wife Anahareo, with brief appearances by Graham Greene and others. The screenplay was written by William Nicholson. This film is released September 10, 1999.

Archibald Belaney (Brosnan) was a British man who grew up fascinated with Native American culture—so much so that in the early 1900s he left the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for Canada, where he reinvented himself as Archie Grey Owl and lived in the wild as a North American Indian trapper. Eventually, Belaney becomes an environmentalist after renouncing trapping and hunting.

The film was shot in the English town of Hastings, Quebec towns Chelsea and Wakefield, Jacques Cartier Park and Saskatchewan's Prince Albert National Park.

Director Richard Attenborough said in an interview that he and his brother, noted presenter and naturalist David Attenborough, had attended "Grey Owl's" De Montfort Hall, Leicester lecture in 1936, depicted in the film, and being influenced by his advocacy of conservation.


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