Gary Farmer

Acting

Gary Farmer

Born 1953-06-12 · Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada

Gary Dale Farmer (born June 12, 1953) is a versatile and esteemed Aboriginal Canadian actor known for his compelling performances on screen. Born in Ohsweken, Ontario, Farmer has made significant contributions to film and television. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his memorable performance as Nobody in the Jim Jarmusch independent western Dead Man (1995), in which he starred opposite Johnny Depp, and again for his role in Smoke Signals (1998). Gary reprised his role as Nobody for Jim Jarmusch again in "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), and Frank Oz cast him alongside Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro in The Score (2001). Recently Gary showed off his comedy chops as Uncle Brownie on "Reservation Dogs." Farmer's ability to portray diverse characters with authenticity and nuance has earned him acclaim in the entertainment industry. His passion for storytelling and his commitment to his craft have established him as a respected and influential figure in the world of acting.

Acting credits

The Score poster
6.7

An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.

The Score

2001

Adaptation. poster
7.3

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.

Adaptation.

2002

Police Academy poster
6.7

New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

Police Academy

1984

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai poster
7.3

A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

1999

Dead Man poster
7.3

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Dead Man

1995

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight poster
6.8

Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

1995

Blood Quantum poster
5.8

The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.

Blood Quantum

2019

First Cow poster
7.0

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.

First Cow

2020

The Believers poster
5.9

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

The Believers

1987

Swing Vote poster
5.8

In a remarkable turn of events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.

Swing Vote

2008

Margie Claus poster
NR

When Santa goes missing Christmas Eve, his wife Margie Claus has to assemble a rag-tag team of long-retired reindeer to rescue Santa and save Christmas

Margie Claus

2027

The Big Empty poster
6.1

Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cowboy in return for having his credit card debt of $27,000 paid off. Upon his arrival, John can't find the cowboy but receives an ominously head-shaped package he's supposed to hang onto. While waiting, John gets close to Ruthie, whose psychotic boyfriend, Randy, keeps threatening to kill him.

The Big Empty

2003

Renegades poster
5.3

While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to participate in a heist, leading to innocent casualties and the theft of an ancient Lakota tribal spear. After McHenry ends up severely wounded, he is taken in by Native American Hank Storm, who is out to recover the spear and avenge the death of a loved one in the heist.

Renegades

1989

Cowboys poster
6.2

Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.

Cowboys

2020

Delivering Milo poster
5.4

A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.

Delivering Milo

2001

Route 666 poster
5.1

Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed 'Route 666' after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name.

Route 666

2001

The Big Town poster
5.5

It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.

The Big Town

1987

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NR

Tombs weaves together the triangular story points of three Oklahoma sisters and their mother who travel to Los Angeles as a part of a relocation program in the 1950s that gave Native Americans the opportunity to become “civilized” by getting jobs in urban centres. When they arrive, they begin to understand that like many east-to-west dreams, the reality is not the new beginning they sought. Abandoned by government policy and in acute poverty, they begin to search for their own, finding home in “the tombs” – the cemented riverways of LA. It is here a young mother is killed, and the lives of her children separate down three very different paths that emerge in 1970s Los Angeles – weaving together one telling, one flood.

How We Stand

2026

Trudell poster
5.7

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances, and politics.

Trudell

2005

Blown Away poster
6.3

After her mother is killed by a car bomb, a 17-year-old girl lives a reckless and decadent lifestyle. She begins having sex with a boy who works at a local ski resort. He falls in love, and she tells him of her suspicions that her strict father was responsible for her mother's death and wants him to help her out of her situation. He must decide whether she's telling the truth or using him to her own ends.

Blown Away

1993

Skins poster
5.3

An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.

Skins

2002

Powwow Highway poster
6.8

Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.

Powwow Highway

1989

Sioux City poster
5.0

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller.

Sioux City

1994

Dreamkeeper poster
6.7

In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic.

Dreamkeeper

2003

Behind the camera