Jay Silverheels

Actor

Born: May 26, 1912
Died: March 5, 1980 (age 67)
From: Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada

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…

Filmography (72)

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
Santee (1973)
John Crow
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
The Chief
One Little Indian (1973)
Jimmy Wolf
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 Western: A Lost TV Special (1958)
Self
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)
Tonto
Return to Warbow (1958)
Indian Joe
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
Geronimo
The Lone Ranger (1956)
Tonto
The Vanishing American (1955)
Beeteia
Masterson of Kansas (1954)
Yellow Hawk
Four Guns to the Border (1954)
Yaqui
The Black Dakotas (1954)
Black Buffalo
Drums Across the River (1954)
Taos
Saskatchewan (1954)
Cajou
War Arrow (1953)
Satanta
The Nebraskan (1953)
Spotted Bear
Jack McCall, Desperado (1953)
Red Cloud