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Gary Farmer

Gary Farmer began his acting career coaching Native kids with the Native Theatre School in Toronto. His first theatrical role was in the Michael Cook play, On The Rim Of The Curve which was produced during the 1976 Olympics in Montréal.

Also see: Gary Farmer Honoured by imagineNATIVE.

Features & TV Movies

Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

Police Academy (1984)
The Undergrads (TV-1985)
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (TV-1985)
Doing Life (TV-1986)
The Believers (1987)
The Big Town (1987)
Still Life (1988)
Blue City Slammers (1988)
Powwow Highway (1989)
Renegades (1989)

Sparks: The Price of Passion (TV-1990)
Plymouth (TV-1991)
The Dark Wind (1991)
Blown Away (1992)
Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
Sioux City (1994)
Henry & Verlin (1994)
Demon Knight (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Lilies (1996)
Moonshine Highway (TV-1996)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Stolen Heart (1998)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Touched (1999)
Justice (TV-1999)
Heater (1999)

The Virginian (TV-2000)
Delivering Milo (2000)
Angels Don’t Sleep Here (2000)
The Score (2001)
Route 666 (2001)
Two Grey Hills (2001)
Skins (2002)
Adaptation (2002)
A Thousand Guns (2002)
Twist (2003)
The Republic of Love (2003)
The Big Empty (2003)
Sawtooth (2004)
Evergreen (2004)
A Thief of Time (2004)
3 Needles (2005)
One Dead Indian (TV-2006)
Disappearances (2006)
Doomstown (TV-2006)
One Night With You (2006)
Intervention (2006)
Elijah (TV-2007)
All Hat (2007)
California Indian (2007)
The Timekeeper (2008)
Powerball (2009, short)

A Windigo Tale (2010)
Bear Tung (2010, short)
Good Neighbours (2010)
A Bird in the Air (2011)
California Indian (2011)
Foreverland (2011)
The Loop (2011)
Ink: A Tale of Captivity (2011)
Path of Souls (2012)
Jimmy P. (2013)
Winter in Blood (2013)
Rez Carz (2014, short)
Peter and John (2015)
The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw (2019)
First Cow (2019)
Blood Quantum (2019)
Santa Fake (2019)

Cowboys (2020)
The Dark Divide (2020)
Blood Brothers (2021)
The Boardinghouse Reach (2021)
Hey, Viktor! (2023)

TV Series – Cast:
Spirit Day (1984)

Forever Night (1992-1993)
500 Nations (voice, 1995, mini-series)
The Rez (1996)

Dice (2001, mini-series)
Dreamkeeper (2003, mini-series)
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (2006, mini-series)
Moose TV (2006)
Easy Money (2008-2009)

Blackstone (2012)
The Red Road (2014)

TV Series – Guest appearances:
The Littlest Hobo (1983)
Spirit Bay (1984)
For the Record (1985)
Philip Marlowe (1988)
Private Eye (1986)
Adderly (1986)
Miami Vice (1988)
Friday the 13th: The Series (1989)

China Beach (1990)
E.N.G. (1992)
Street Legal (1993)
The Big Comfy Couch (1993)
The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon (1994)
The Rez (1996)
Promised Land (1997)
The New Ghostwriter Mysteries (1997)
The Pretender (1998)

The West Wing (2001)
The Job (2002)
Screech Owls (2002)
Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries (2002)
Lord Have Mercy! (2003)
Odd Job Jack (2003)
Mutant X (2003)
The Chris Isaak Show (2004)
This is Wonderland (2004, 2005)
Longmire (2013, 2017)
The Red Road (2014, 2015)
Zoo (2015, 2016)
Graves (2016)
Guilt Free Zone (2017)
Blackwater (2019)

Resident Alien (2021)
Rutherford Falls (2021)