Jay Silverheels

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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The Lone Ranger 1949Série como Tonto

O Tesouro de Sierra Madre 1948Filme +1 como Indian Guide at Pier (uncredited)

Céu Amarelo 1948Filme como Indian (uncredited)

O Levante dos Apaches 1952Filme como Geronimo

Paixões em Fúria 1948Filme +1 como Tom Osceola (uncredited)

O Justiceiro Mascarado 1956 1956Filme como Tonto

Last of the Comanches 1953Filme como Indian (uncredited)

Fury at Furnace Creek 1948Filme como Little Dog (uncredited)

Amor Feito de Ódio 1973Filme como The Chief

Red Mountain 1951Filme como Little Crow

A Grande Audácia 1953Filme como Satanta

Escravos da Ambição 1949Filme como Walter

O Pequeno Índio 1973Filme como Jimmy Wolf

O Derradeiro Assalto 1954Filme como Yaqui

Honra de Selvagens 1956Filme como Geronimo

O Cavaleiro Solitário e a Cidade de Ouro Perdida 1958Filme como Tonto

Tambores da Morte 1954Filme como Taos

A Esperança dos Índios 1969Filme como McDonald Lasheway

The Wild Blue Yonder 1951Filme como Benders

The Western: A Lost TV Special 1958Filme como Self

O Vaqueiro e os Peles-Vermelhas 1949Filme como Lakohna

Charlie Chan e o Tesoura Azteca 1948Filme como Diego (uncredited)

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger 1952Filme como Tonto

Santee 1973Filme como John Crow

A FERRADURA ACUSADORA 1949Filme como Running Wolf (uncredited)