Personal Info
Known Credits
69
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1912-05-26 (113 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Also Known For
Harold J. SmithHarry SilversmithHarry Smith
Jay Silverheels
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
Acting
2002 --
The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s
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2001 --
Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes
| Tonto
1973 --
Santee
| John Crow
1973 --
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
| The Chief
1973 --
One Little Indian
| Jimmy Wolf
1972 --
In Pursuit of Treasure
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1971 --
Cat Ballou
| Indian Chief
1970 --
The Phynx
| Tonto
1969 --
True Grit
| Condemned Man at Hanging (uncredited)
1969 --
Smith!
| McDonald Lasheway
1968 --
The Movie Orgy
| Tonto (archive footage)
1967 --
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
| Great Bear
1965 --
Indian Paint
| Chief Hevatanu
1960 --
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
| Natchez
1959 --
Alias Jesse James
| Tonto (uncredited)
1958 --
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
| Tonto
1958 --
Return to Warbow
| Indian Joe
1956 --
Walk the Proud Land
| Geronimo
1956 --
The Lone Ranger
| Tonto
1955 --
The Vanishing American
| Beeteia
1954 --
Masterson of Kansas
| Yellow Hawk
1954 --
Four Guns to the Border
| Yaqui
1954 --
The Black Dakotas
| Black Buffalo
1954 --
Drums Across the River
| Taos
1954 --
Saskatchewan
| Cajou
1953 --
War Arrow
| Satanta
1953 --
The Nebraskan
| Spotted Bear
1953 --
Jack McCall, Desperado
| Red Cloud
1953 --
Last of the Comanches
| Indian (uncredited)
1952 --
The Pathfinder
| Chingachgook
1952 --
Yankee Buccaneer
| Lead Warrior
1952 --
Brave Warrior
| Chief Tecumseh
1952 --
The Battle at Apache Pass
| Geronimo
1952 --
The Half-Breed
| Apache (uncredited)
1952 --
The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
| Tonto
1951 --
The Wild Blue Yonder
| Benders
1951 --
Red Mountain
| Little Crow
1950 --
Broken Arrow
| Geronimo
1949 --
Enter the Lone Ranger
| Tonto
1949 --
The Cowboy and the Indians
| Lakohna
1949 --
Sand
| Indian (uncredited)
1949 --
Trail of the Yukon
| Poleon
1949 --
Lust for Gold
| Walter
1949 --
Laramie
| Running Wolf (uncredited)
1949 --
Tulsa
| Creek Indian (uncredited)
1948 --
Yellow Sky
| Indian (uncredited)
1948 --
The Feathered Serpent
| Diego (uncredited)
1948 --
Family Honeymoon
| Elevator Boy (uncredited)
1948 --
Singin' Spurs
| Abel
1948 --
Key Largo
| Tom Osceola (uncredited)
1948 --
Fury at Furnace Creek
| Little Dog (uncredited)
1948 --
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
| Indian Guide at Pier (uncredited)
1947 --
Captain from Castile
| Coatl (uncredited)
1947 --
The Prairie
| Running Deer
1947 --
Gas House Kids Go West
| Kingsley's Henchman (uncredited)
1944 --
Tahiti Nights
| Lua
1944 --
I Am an American
| Indian (uncredited)
1944 --
Lost in a Harem
| Guard at Execution (uncredited)
1943 --
The Phantom
| Astari Warrior (uncredited)
1943 --
Northern Pursuit
| Indian (uncredited)
1943 --
The Girl from Monterrey
| Fighter Tito Flores
1942 --
Perils of Nyoka
| Tuareg
1942 --
Valley of the Sun
| Indian
1941 --
This Woman Is Mine
| Indian Marauder
1941 --
Western Union
| Indian
1940 --
Too Many Girls
| Indian
1940 --
Kit Carson
| Indian
1940 --
The Sea Hawk
| Native Lookout