Jay Silverheels
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1912-05-26
- Décès:
- 1980-03-05
- Lieu de naissance:
- Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Biographie
Jay Silverheels was born on a reservation in Canada to a Mohawk chief. He was a star lacrosse player and a boxer before he entered films as a stuntman in 1938. He worked in a number of films though the 1940s before he gained some notice as the Osceola brother in Humphrey Bogart's film Key Largo (1948). Most of his roles consisted of bit parts as "Indian." In 1949, he would work in a movie called The Cowboy and the Indians (1949) with another "B movie" actor named Clayton Moore. It was later that same year that Jay would be hired to play the faithful Indian companion, Tonto, in the television series "The Lone Ranger" (1949). This role, while still playing the "Indian," would bring Jay the fame that his motion picture career never did. As Tonto, on his horse Scout, Jay could show up where the Ranger could not and some of the time he would be shot at or beat up for his trouble. Jay would play Tonto in all the episodes except for those that he missed when he had his heart attack. In those episodes, he was replaced by the Ranger's nephew, Dan. However, Clayton Moore would miss the third season when he was replaced by John Hart. Jay would reprise the role of Tonto in two big-screen color movies with Moore, The Lone Ranger (1956) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). After the series ended in 1957, Jay could not escape the typecasting of Tonto. He would continue to appear in an occasional film and television show, but he would become a spokesman to improve the portrayal of Indians on TV.
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Filmographie
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Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes
Santee
Le Fantôme de Cat Dancing
Un petit Indien
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Cat Ballou
The Phynx
The Brady Bunch
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Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Indian Paint
Branded
Daniel Boone
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Gunslinger
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Rawhide
Au nom de la loi
The Western: A Lost TV Special
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Return to Warbow
L'homme de San Carlos
Le Justicier solitaire
The Vanishing American
Masterson of Kansas
Quatre Tueurs et une Fille
The Black Dakotas
La Rivière sanglante
La Brigade héroïque
À l'assaut du Fort Clark
L'homme du Nebraska
Jack McCall, Desperado
Le Sabre et la Flèche
Le Trappeur des Grands Lacs
Les Boucaniers de la Jamaïque
La Levée des tomahawks
Au mépris des lois
La Peur du scalp
The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
Tonnerre sur le Pacifique
Montagne rouge
La Flèche brisée
The Cowboy and the Indians
The Lone Ranger
Sand
Trail of the Yukon
Le Démon de l'or
Laramie
Tulsa
La Ville abandonnée
The Feathered Serpent
Family Honeymoon
Singin' Spurs
Key Largo
Massacre à Furnace Creek
Le Trésor de la Sierra Madre
Capitaine de Castille
The Prairie
The Last Round-up
Gas House Kids Go West
Tahiti Nights
I Am an American
Aventures au harem
Passage pour Marseille
The Phantom
Du sang sur la neige
The Girl from Monterrey
Perils of Nyoka
La Vallée du Soleil
This Woman Is Mine
Les Pionniers de la Western Union
Hudson's Bay
Too Many Girls
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L'Aigle des mers
A Different Drum