Grey Owl poster
Director Richard Attenborough
Screenplay William Nicholson

Grey Owl

Tagline: A dream to save the wilderness. A secret that shocked the world.

Release Date: 1999-10-01

Duration: 117 minutes

Synopsis

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. Instead, he works as a guide, a naturalist writer, and then the Canadian government hires him to save the beaver in a conserve by Lake Ajawaan in Prince Albert National Park. He writes a biography, which brings him attention in Canada and invitations to lecture in England. Before he leaves, he and Anahareo (Pony) marry. In England, his secret is revealed. Will Anahareo continue to love him?

Casting

  • Pierce Brosnan
    Grey Owl
  • Graham Greene
    Jim Bernard
  • Jimmy Herman
    Chief Pete Misebi
  • Nathaniel Arcand
    Ned White Bear
  • Stephanie Cole
  • Stewart Bick
    Cyrus Finney
  • John Dunn-Hill
    Sim Hancock
  • Serge Houde
    Second Hunter
  • Vlasta Vrana
    Harry Champlin
  • Renée Asherson