Jay Silverheels
🎂 Data nașterii: 1912-05-26 (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 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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⭐ 6.1
The Movie Orgy
⭐ 6.8
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
⭐ 8.0
Tahiti Nights
⭐ 9.0
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
⭐ 5.9
The Phynx
⭐ 3.6
One Little Indian
⭐ 6.3
Yankee Buccaneer
⭐ 6.0
Santee
⭐ 5.5
Captain from Castile
⭐ 7.2
Northern Pursuit
⭐ 6.1
The Phantom
⭐ 6.6
The Half-Breed
⭐ 7.0
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
⭐ N/A
The Lone Ranger
⭐ 6.2
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
⭐ 6.6
Drums Across the River
⭐ 5.8
Tulsa
⭐ 6.3
The Black Dakotas
⭐ 5.5
Fury at Furnace Creek
⭐ 6.3
Red Mountain
⭐ 6.7
Saskatchewan
⭐ 6.0
The Girl from Monterrey
⭐ 8.0
Indian Paint
⭐ 6.0
The Wild Blue Yonder
⭐ 7.0
Jack McCall, Desperado
⭐ 6.0
Return to Warbow
⭐ 5.9
The Vanishing American
⭐ 6.7
Masterson of Kansas
⭐ 6.1
The Nebraskan
⭐ 3.8
In Pursuit of Treasure
⭐ 10.0
The Pathfinder
⭐ 4.8
The Cowboy and the Indians
⭐ 7.0
Four Guns to the Border
⭐ 5.0
Family Honeymoon
⭐ 6.3
Broken Arrow
⭐ 6.7
Brave Warrior
⭐ 4.9
War Arrow
⭐ 5.8
Comoara din Sierra Madre
⭐ 8.0
Sand
⭐ 5.6
Tăria adevărată
⭐ 7.3
The Battle at Apache Pass
⭐ 6.6
Walk the Proud Land
⭐ 5.9
The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
⭐ 6.6
The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s
⭐ N/A
Lust for Gold
⭐ 6.0
Key Largo
⭐ 7.5
Perils of Nyoka
⭐ 8.0
Kit Carson
⭐ 6.1
Gas House Kids Go West
⭐ 6.5
Laramie
⭐ 6.8
Last of the Comanches
⭐ 6.2
Corsarul
⭐ 7.2
Too Many Girls
⭐ 5.9
Trail of the Yukon
⭐ 7.5
The Prairie
⭐ 6.5
This Woman Is Mine
⭐ 4.5
Western Union
⭐ 6.0
Singin' Spurs
⭐ 7.0
Valley of the Sun
⭐ 6.3
Smith!
⭐ 5.9
Yellow Sky
⭐ 7.0
Lost in a Harem
⭐ 5.6I Am an American
⭐ 6.4
Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes
⭐ N/A
Alias Jesse James
⭐ 6.1
Cat Ballou
⭐ 7.0
The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man
⭐ N/A
The Western: A Lost TV Special
⭐ N/A
Hudson's Bay
⭐ 6.1
The Last Round-up
⭐ 7.3
A Different Drum
⭐ 7.0