Greene was born in Ottawa, Ontario to Russian Jewish immigrants, and began acting while attending Queen's University in Kingston, where he also acquired a knack for broadcasting with the Radio Workshop of the university's Drama Guild on the campus radio station CFRC. The first of his American television roles was as family patriarch Ben Cartwright on the long-running western series Bonanza (1959–1973), making Greene a household name. He garnered
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Ringo
I'm a Gun
Bonanza
Pretty Horses
The Devil's Grin
Five Card Stud
Ghost Riders In The Sky
Sand
Geronimo
Sixteen Tons
An Ol' Tin Cup (And a Battered Ol' Coffee Pot)
Virginia Town
Devil Cat
Alamo
Pony Express
Frightened Town
Endless Prairie
The Search
Gunslinger's Prayer
Shadow of the Cactus
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Dig, Dig, Dig, Dig (There's No More Water in the Well)
Saga of the Ponderosa
pop goes the hammer
Blue Guitar
Destiny
Twilight on the Trail
Nine Pound Hammer
Ol' Cyclone
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
End of Track
Mule Train
Fourteen Men
Cool Water
Trouble Row
Nellie Cole
The Ol' Chisholm Trail
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo
Oh! What A Town
The Man
Home on the Range
Gold
The Place Where I Worship
Bring on the Dancin' Girls
Wagon Wheels
Chickasaw Mountain
Darling, My Darling
'Twas The Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)
Must Be Santa
Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit from St. Nicholas)
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