With a dry sense of humour and a penchant for teasing, it's no wonder that acclaimed actor Graham Greene believed his own friends were pranking him when he got the call from someone with the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards letting him know he'd be receiving a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award.

"'Yeah, yeah, who is it?'" he recalls saying. "I found out it was true, and I said, 'Oh my gosh, I'm terribly sorry, I thought it was some friends playing a joke.' The same thing happened when I got the Order of Canada, I thought somebody was pulling my leg."

The 72-year-old actor will be receiving the honour for his vast body of work in stage and screen, which includes unforgettable portrayals of chiefs, medicine men, doctors, a judge ( ), a detective ( ) and a death row inmate ( ). Fo

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