Jay Silverheels
Acting
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Acting Credits
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...
Known For
Filmography
The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man
2013
as Tonto
The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s
2002
Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes
2001
as Tonto
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973
as The Chief
One Little Indian
1973
as Jimmy Wolf
Santee
1973
as John Crow
In Pursuit of Treasure
1972
Cat Ballou
1971
as Indian Chief
Cannon
1971
The Phynx
1970
as Tonto
True Grit
1969
as Condemned Man at Hanging (uncredited)
Smith!
1969
as McDonald Lasheway
The Brady Bunch
1969
as Chief Eagle Cloud
The Movie Orgy
1968
as Tonto (archive footage)
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1967
as Great Bear
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
as Great Bear
Indian Paint
1965
as Chief Hevatanu
Branded
1965
Daniel Boone
1964
as Sashona
Daniel Boone
1964
as Latawa
Daniel Boone
1964
as Chenrogan
The Virginian
1962
as Den'Gwatzi
The Virginian
1962
as Spotted Hand
Gunslinger
1961
as Hopi Indian
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
1960
as Natchez
Alias Jesse James
1959
as Tonto (uncredited)
Rawhide
1959
as Pawnee Joe
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
1958
as Tonto
Return to Warbow
1958
as Indian Joe
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
as Self
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Charley Red Cloud
The Lone Ranger
1956
as Tonto
Walk the Proud Land
1956
as Geronimo
The Vanishing American
1955
as Beeteia
Drums Across the River
1954
as Taos
The Black Dakotas
1954
as Black Buffalo
Saskatchewan
1954
as Cajou
Masterson of Kansas
1954
as Yellow Hawk
Four Guns to the Border
1954
as Yaqui
Jack McCall, Desperado
1953
as Red Cloud
The Nebraskan
1953
as Spotted Bear
War Arrow
1953
as Satanta
Last of the Comanches
1953
as Indian (uncredited)
Yankee Buccaneer
1952
as Lead Warrior
The Half-Breed
1952
as Apache (uncredited)
The Pathfinder
1952
as Chingachgook
Brave Warrior
1952
as Chief Tecumseh
The Battle at Apache Pass
1952
as Geronimo
The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
1952
as Tonto
Red Mountain
1951
as Little Crow
The Wild Blue Yonder
1951
as Benders
Broken Arrow
1950
as Geronimo (uncredited)
Tulsa
1949
as Creek Indian (uncredited)
The Cowboy and the Indians
1949
as Lakohna
Sand
1949
as Indian (uncredited)
Lust for Gold
1949
as Walter
Laramie
1949
as Running Wolf (uncredited)
Trail of the Yukon
1949
as Poleon
The Lone Ranger
1949
as Tonto
The Feathered Serpent
1948
as Diego (uncredited)
Fury at Furnace Creek
1948
as Little Dog (uncredited)
Family Honeymoon
1948
as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
as Indian Guide at Pier (uncredited)
Key Largo
1948
as Tom Osceola (uncredited)
Singin' Spurs
1948
as Abel
Yellow Sky
1948
as Indian (uncredited)
Captain from Castile
1947
as Coatl (uncredited)
Gas House Kids Go West
1947
as Kingsley's Henchman (uncredited)
The Prairie
1947
as Running Deer
The Last Round-up
1947
Tahiti Nights
1944
as Lua
Lost in a Harem
1944
as Guard at Execution (uncredited)
I Am an American
1944
as Indian (uncredited)
Passage to Marseille
1944
as Sailor Crewman on Boat Deck (uncredited)
Northern Pursuit
1943
as Indian (uncredited)
The Phantom
1943
as Astari Warrior (uncredited)
The Girl from Monterrey
1943
as Fighter Tito Flores
Perils of Nyoka
1942
as Tuareg
Valley of the Sun
1942
as Indian (uncredited)
This Woman Is Mine
1941
as Indian Marauder
Western Union
1941
as Indian
Kit Carson
1940
as Indian
The Sea Hawk
1940
as Native Lookout
Too Many Girls
1940
as Indian (uncredited)
Hudson's Bay
1940
as Indian (uncredited)