Jay Silverheels
Acting
Born: 1912-05-26 · Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1980-03-05
Biography
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 t
🎬 Movies (30)
The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man
2013
Tonto
The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s
2002
Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes
2001
Tonto
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973
The Chief
One Little Indian
1973
Jimmy Wolf
Santee
1973
John Crow
In Pursuit of Treasure
1972
Cat Ballou
1971
Indian Chief
The Phynx
1970
Tonto
True Grit
1969
Condemned Man at Hanging (uncredited)
Smith!
1969
McDonald Lasheway
The Movie Orgy
1968
Tonto (archive footage)
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1967
Great Bear
Indian Paint
1965
Chief Hevatanu
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
1960
Natchez
Alias Jesse James
1959
Tonto (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
1958
Tonto
Return to Warbow
1958
Indian Joe
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
Self
The Lone Ranger
1956
Tonto
Walk the Proud Land
1956
Geronimo
The Vanishing American
1955
Beeteia
Drums Across the River
1954
Taos
The Black Dakotas
1954
Black Buffalo
Saskatchewan
1954
Cajou
Masterson of Kansas
1954
Yellow Hawk
Four Guns to the Border
1954
Yaqui
Jack McCall, Desperado
1953
Red Cloud
The Nebraskan
1953
Spotted Bear
War Arrow
1953
Satanta
📺 TV Shows (11)
Cannon
1971
The Brady Bunch
1969
Chief Eagle Cloud
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
Branded
1965
Daniel Boone
1964
Latawa
The Virginian
1962
Spotted Hand
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gunslinger
1961
Hopi Indian
Rawhide
1959
Pawnee Joe
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Charley Red Cloud
The Lone Ranger
1949
Tonto