Jay Silverheels
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man
Film • 2013
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The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s
Film • 2002
Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes
Film • 2001
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Santee
Film • 1973
jako John Crow
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Film • 1973
jako The Chief
One Little Indian
Film • 1973
jako Jimmy Wolf
In Pursuit of Treasure
Film • 1972
Cannon
Serial • 1971
Cat Ballou
Film • 1971
jako Indian Chief
The Phynx
Film • 1970
jako Tonto
The Brady Bunch
Serial • 1969
jako Chief Eagle Cloud
Prawdziwe męstwo
Film • 1969
jako Condemned Man at Hanging (uncredited)
Smith!
Film • 1969
jako McDonald Lasheway
The Movie Orgy
Film • 1968
jako Tonto (archive footage)
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Film • 1967
jako Great Bear
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Serial • 1966
Indian Paint
Film • 1965
jako Chief Hevatanu
Branded
Serial • 1965
Daniel Boone
Serial • 1964
jako Sashona
The Virginian
Serial • 1962
jako Den'Gwatzi
Gunslinger
Serial • 1961
jako Hopi Indian
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
Film • 1960
jako Natchez
Pechowiec na prerii
Film • 1959
jako Tonto (uncredited)
Rawhide
Serial • 1959
jako Pawnee Joe
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Serial • 1958
jako Charley Red Cloud
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Film • 1958
jako Self
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Film • 1958
jako Tonto
Return to Warbow
Film • 1958
jako Indian Joe
Walk the Proud Land
Film • 1956
jako Geronimo
The Lone Ranger
Film • 1956
jako Tonto
The Vanishing American
Film • 1955
jako Beeteia
Masterson of Kansas
Film • 1954
jako Yellow Hawk
Strzały na granicy
Film • 1954
jako Yaqui
The Black Dakotas
Film • 1954
jako Black Buffalo
Drums Across the River
Film • 1954
jako Taos
Saskatchewan
Film • 1954
jako Cajou
Strzała wojny
Film • 1953
jako Satanta
The Nebraskan
Film • 1953
jako Spotted Bear
Jack McCall, Desperado
Film • 1953
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Ostatni Komancze
Film • 1953
jako Indian (uncredited)
The Pathfinder
Film • 1952
jako Chingachgook
Yankee Buccaneer
Film • 1952
jako Lead Warrior
Brave Warrior
Film • 1952
jako Chief Tecumseh
Bitwa na przełęczy Apaczów
Film • 1952
jako Geronimo
The Half-Breed
Film • 1952
jako Apache (uncredited)
The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
Film • 1952
jako Tonto
The Wild Blue Yonder
Film • 1951
jako Benders
Red Mountain
Film • 1951
jako Little Crow
Złamana strzała
Film • 1950
jako Geronimo (uncredited)
The Cowboy and the Indians
Film • 1949
jako Lakohna
The Lone Ranger
Serial • 1949
jako Tonto
Sand
Film • 1949
jako Indian (uncredited)
Trail of the Yukon
Film • 1949
jako Poleon
Lust for Gold
Film • 1949
jako Walter
Laramie
Film • 1949
jako Running Wolf (uncredited)
Tulsa
Film • 1949
jako Creek Indian (uncredited)
Droga do Yellow Sky
Film • 1948
jako Indian (uncredited)
The Feathered Serpent
Film • 1948
jako Diego (uncredited)
Family Honeymoon
Film • 1948
jako Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Singin' Spurs
Film • 1948
jako Abel
Key Largo
Film • 1948
jako Tom Osceola (uncredited)
Fury at Furnace Creek
Film • 1948
jako Little Dog (uncredited)
Skarb Sierra Madre
Film • 1948
jako Indian Guide at Pier (uncredited)
Captain from Castile
Film • 1947
jako Coatl (uncredited)
The Prairie
Film • 1947
jako Running Deer
The Last Round-up
Film • 1947
Gas House Kids Go West
Film • 1947
jako Kingsley's Henchman (uncredited)
Tahiti Nights
Film • 1944
jako Lua
I Am an American
Film • 1944
jako Indian (uncredited)
Abbott i Costello Zagubieni w Haremie
Film • 1944
jako Guard at Execution (uncredited)
Droga do Marsylii
Film • 1944
jako Sailor Crewman on Boat Deck (uncredited)
The Phantom
Film • 1943
jako Astari Warrior (uncredited)
Northern Pursuit
Film • 1943
jako Indian (uncredited)
The Girl from Monterrey
Film • 1943
jako Fighter Tito Flores
Perils of Nyoka
Film • 1942
jako Tuareg
Valley of the Sun
Film • 1942
jako Indian (uncredited)
This Woman Is Mine
Film • 1941
jako Indian Marauder
Napad na Western Union
Film • 1941
jako Indian
Zatoka Hudsona
Film • 1940
jako Indian (uncredited)
Too Many Girls
Film • 1940
jako Indian (uncredited)
Kit Carson
Film • 1940
jako Indian
Sokół morski
Film • 1940
jako Native Lookout
A Different Drum
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