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Jay Silverheels
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Jay Silverheels
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1912-05-26,Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Gender
Male
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 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.

Filmography

The Feathered Serpent

5.8

The Feathered Serpent
1948-12-19

6.5

The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01

Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

0

Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
1960-03-04

0

Tahiti Nights
1944-12-28

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

5.8

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973-06-28

3.5

The Phynx
1970-03-06

One Little Indian

6.3

One Little Indian
1973-06-20

Yankee Buccaneer

5.8

Yankee Buccaneer
1952-09-16

5.3

Santee
1973-09-01

Captain from Castile

7.1

Captain from Castile
1947-12-25

Northern Pursuit

5.9

Northern Pursuit
1943-11-07

6.2

The Phantom
1943-12-24

5

The Half-Breed
1952-05-03

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

0

Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1967-09-05

The Lone Ranger

6.1

The Lone Ranger
1956-02-25

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

6.5

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
1958-06-04

Drums Across the River

5.4

Drums Across the River
1954-06-01

6.3

Tulsa
1949-04-13

The Black Dakotas

5.1

The Black Dakotas
1954-09-02

Fury at Furnace Creek

6

Fury at Furnace Creek
1948-04-30

6.2

Red Mountain
1951-11-01

5.9

Saskatchewan
1954-03-30

The Girl from Monterrey

0

The Girl from Monterrey
1943-10-04

5.3

Indian Paint
1965-04-08

The Wild Blue Yonder

6

The Wild Blue Yonder
1951-12-05

Jack McCall, Desperado

5.3

Jack McCall, Desperado
1953-04-01

Return to Warbow

5.8

Return to Warbow
1958-01-15

The Vanishing American

4

The Vanishing American
1955-11-17

Masterson of Kansas

5.8

Masterson of Kansas
1954-12-01

3

The Nebraskan
1953-12-02

In Pursuit of Treasure

0

In Pursuit of Treasure
1972-03-17

4

The Pathfinder
1952-12-09

The Cowboy and the Indians

6.8

The Cowboy and the Indians
1949-09-15

Four Guns to the Border

4.5

Four Guns to the Border
1954-11-05

Family Honeymoon

5.7

Family Honeymoon
1948-12-06

6.7

Broken Arrow
1950-08-01

4

Brave Warrior
1952-05-31

5.6

War Arrow
1953-12-26

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

7.955

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948-01-15

4.5

Sand
1949-08-03

7.3

True Grit
1969-06-11

The Battle at Apache Pass

6.3

The Battle at Apache Pass
1952-05-09

Walk the Proud Land

6.1

Walk the Proud Land
1956-09-01

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger

6

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
1952-01-01

Enter the Lone Ranger

3.5

Enter the Lone Ranger
1949-09-15

The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s

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The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s
2002-10-13

5.9

Lust for Gold
1949-06-10

7.5

Key Largo
1948-07-16

Perils of Nyoka

0

Perils of Nyoka
1942-06-27

6.1

Kit Carson
1940-08-30

Gas House Kids Go West

6

Gas House Kids Go West
1947-06-12

6.5

Laramie
1949-05-19

Last of the Comanches

6.4

Last of the Comanches
1953-02-01

7.1

The Sea Hawk
1940-08-10

5.7

Too Many Girls
1940-10-08

Trail of the Yukon

6

Trail of the Yukon
1949-07-31

6

The Prairie
1947-11-27

This Woman Is Mine

3.2

This Woman Is Mine
1941-08-22

6

Western Union
1941-02-21

0

Singin' Spurs
1948-09-22

Valley of the Sun

5.8

Valley of the Sun
1942-02-06

5.6

Smith!
1969-03-21

6.9

Yellow Sky
1948-12-24

Lost in a Harem

5.5

Lost in a Harem
1944-12-01

I Am an American

5.3

I Am an American
1944-12-23

Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes

0

Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes
2001-05-29

Alias Jesse James

5.9

Alias Jesse James
1959-03-20

0

Cat Ballou
1971-09-06

The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man

0

The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man

The Brady Bunch

6.7

The Brady Bunch
1969-09-26

6.4

Cannon
1971-09-14

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

7.5

Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966-09-17

7.2

Rawhide
1959-01-09

6.9

Daniel Boone
1964-09-24

6.4

Branded
1965-01-24

Wanted: Dead or Alive

6.9

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958-09-06

The Lone Ranger

6.7

The Lone Ranger
1949-09-15

6.9

Daniel Boone
1964-09-24

6.9

Daniel Boone
1964-09-24

6.4

The Virginian
1962-09-19

6.4

The Virginian
1962-09-19