Grey Owl (film)
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| Directed by | Richard Attenborough |
| Produced by | Richard Attenborough Jake Eberts Claude Léger |
| Written by | William Nicholson |
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| Music by | George Fenton |
| Cinematography | Roger Pratt |
| Edited by | Lesley Walker |
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New City Releasing (USA) 20th Century Fox (UK) |
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Release date
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February 15, 2000 (VHS & DVD release) |
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Running time
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117 minutes |
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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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