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W. Van film actor says
‘the part spoke to me’

AFTER YEARS of roaming
the world as the son of an
RCAF officer and more
recently with a special ef-
fects cabaret production
crew, R Lewis Morrison to-
day finds himself in an ap-
propriate role: the lead in
the Vancouver-made film
The Traveller.

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“There is no doubt that ! was
very sympathetic to the character
(Robert Braun) because of my
travels and background,” con-
fesses Morrison, just in from a late
night flight from Toronto’s Festival
of Festivals.

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In The Traveller, which makes its
West Coast premiere at the eighth
Vancouver International Film Fes-

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Although both his parents are R LEWIS Morrison plays Robert Braun in Bruno Pacheco’s film The NORTH VANCOUVER o ancouver
white, Braun was raised on a Traveller, which makes its West Coast premiere at the eighth Van-
North coast reservation. couver International Film Festival.

“Essentially he is caught be-
tween two cultures,” Morrison

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leaves the reservation to enter the
white business world he is fost and
confused

Morrison’s own father worked in
indian Affairs and his family lived
Near Indian reservations on Van-
couver Island and in Northern
B.C. “Ail my buddies were In-
dians,’’ he says.

Morrison is an elfish man with a

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