Editing Lorne Greene (section)

==Early life and career in Canada==
Greene was born Lyon Himan Green on February 12, 1915, in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]],<ref name="biobooklinda"/> to [[Jews|Jewish]] immigrants from the [[Russian Empire]], Dora ([[Birth name#Maiden and married names|née]] Grinovsky) and Daniel Green, a shoemaker.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEduwCqa290C&q=shoemaker|title=Newsmakers 1988|isbn=9780810322073|access-date=27 August 2015|last1=Gareffa|first1=Peter M.|date=June 1988|publisher=Gale Research }}</ref> He was called "Chaim" by his mother, and his name is shown as "Hyman" on his school report cards. In a biography of him, written by his daughter, she wrote that it was unknown when he began using the name Lorne, nor when he added an "e" to Green.<ref name="biobooklinda"/> 

Greene was the drama instructor at Camp Arowhon, a summer camp in [[Algonquin Provincial Park]], Ontario, Canada, where he developed his talents.

Greene began acting while attending [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] in [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]], where he acquired a knack for broadcasting with the Radio Workshop of the university's Drama Guild on the campus radio station [[CFRC-FM|CFRC]]. 

He gave up on a career in [[chemical engineering]], and upon graduation, found a job as a [[radio]] [[broadcasting|broadcaster]] for the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC).  

During [[World War II]], Greene served as a [[Flying officer]] in the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]]. 

Afterward, he was assigned as the principal [[news presenter|newsreader]] on the CBC National News, with CBC gave him the [[nickname]] "The Voice of Canada". However, following Canada's entry into World War II in 1939, his role in delivering distressing war news in sonorous tones with his deep, resonant voice caused many listeners to call him "The Voice of Doom", especially as he was delegated  the dreaded list of soldiers killed in the war. 

During his radio days, Greene invented a stopwatch that ran backwards, ''i.e.'', it would start from a given number and count down to zero.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/12/arts/lorne-greene-tv-patriarch-is-dead.html "Lorne Greene, TV Patriarch, Is Dead"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 12 September 1987.</ref> This helped radio announcers gauge how much time was left while speaking.

During his CBC radio career, Greene also narrated documentary films, such as the [[National Film Board of Canada]]'s ''[[Fighting Norway]]'' (1943).

Greene left the CBC and became a freelancer after the war when the network ordered staff announcers to turn over a large percentage of any income they earned from film narration. Greene continued to appear on CBC on a freelance basis while becoming the newsreader for private radio station [[CHKT|CKEY]] in Toronto, while also returning to acting work both on stage and in radio plays.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Macdonald |first1=Wallace |title=The Voice of Doom |url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1952/09/15/the-voice-of-doom |access-date=February 14, 2022 |work=Maclean's Magazine |date=September 15, 1952 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214135938/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1952/09/15/the-voice-of-doom |url-status=dead }}</ref>

After closing his Academy of Radio Arts in 1952, Greene relocated to the United States. [[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]].'' Greene likewise began appearing in isolated episodes on live television in the 1950s. In 1953, he was seen in the title role of a one-hour adaptation of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] ''[[Othello]].'' In 1954, he made his Hollywood debut as [[Saint Peter]] in ''[[The Silver Chalice (film)|The Silver Chalice]]'' and made several more films and appearances on American television.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} In 1955, he starred in the British Canadian television series ''Sailor of Fortune''. In 1955, he was [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] in an episode of the TV version of ''[[You Are There (series)|You Are There]]'', and also appeared as [[Marcus Junius Brutus|Marcus Brutus]] in ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' at the [[Stratford Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/people/6923 |title=Archived copy |access-date=6 April 2019 |archive-date=6 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406003118/https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/people/6923 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1957, Greene played the prosecutor in ''[[Peyton Place (film)|Peyton Place]]''.