Lyon Himan Green,[1] OC (February 12, 1915[1] – September 11, 1987), better known by the stage name Lorne Greene, was a Canadian actor and musician.
Greene was assigned as the principal newsreader on the CBC National News. The CBC gave him the nickname “The Voice of Canada”; however, his role in delivering distressing war news in sonorous tones following Canada’s entry into World War II in 1939 caused many listeners to call him “The Voice of Doom”. During his radio days, Greene invented a stopwatch that ran backwards.[3] It helped radio announcers gauge how much time was left, while speaking. He also narrated documentary films, such as the National Film Board of Canada‘s Fighting Norway (1943). In 1957 Greene played the prosecutor inPeyton Place.
Actress and theater producer Katharine Cornell cast him twice in her Broadway productions. In 1953, he was cast in The Prescott Proposals. In that same year, she cast him in a verse drama by Christopher Fry, The Dark is Light Enough.
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