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For 14 seasons, Lorne Greene played all-American cowboy Ben Cartwright on the television Western, Bonanza.
Lorne greene biography interview
Greene, however, was actually a Canadian boy. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on February 12, 1915, the only child of Daniel and Doris Green, Russian Jewish immigrants whose original name was Grinovsky. Lorne's birth name was Lyon Himan Green but his mother referred to him as "Chaim." At some point, he began calling himself Lorne and added an "e" to his last name.
In her 2004 biography, My Father's Voice: The Biography of Lorne Greene, his daughter, Linda Greene Bennett, wrote that it is not known when he changed his name.
Greene attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, originally intending to pursue a career in chemical engineering.
His heart, however, was in acting. According to daughter Linda, in order to participate in the university's drama guild, "he altered his course registration, deleting chemical enginee