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Jay Silverheels‌

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1912-05-26

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Jay Silverheels

Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Jay Silverheels

Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1912-05-26

Popularity

star11.9

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.

Movie Credits

The Feathered Serpent

The Feathered Serpent‌
star5.8
calendar 1948

The Movie Orgy

The Movie Orgy‌
star6.2
calendar 1968

Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge‌
star0.0
calendar 1960

Tahiti Nights

Tahiti Nights‌
star0.0
calendar 1944

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing‌
star5.8
calendar 1973

The Phynx

The Phynx‌
star3.5
calendar 1970

One Little Indian

One Little Indian‌
star6.3
calendar 1973

Yankee Buccaneer

Yankee Buccaneer‌
star5.8
calendar 1952

Santee

Santee‌
star5.3
calendar 1973

Captain from Castile

Captain from Castile‌
star7.2
calendar 1947

Northern Pursuit

Northern Pursuit‌
star5.9
calendar 1943

The Phantom

The Phantom‌
star6.2
calendar 1943

The Half-Breed

The Half-Breed‌
star5.0
calendar 1952

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

Pistols 'n' Petticoats‌
star0.0
calendar 1967

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold‌
star6.5
calendar 1958

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger‌
star6.1
calendar 1956

Drums Across the River

Drums Across the River‌
star5.4
calendar 1954

Tulsa

Tulsa‌
star6.2
calendar 1949

The Black Dakotas

The Black Dakotas‌
star5.1
calendar 1954

Fury at Furnace Creek

Fury at Furnace Creek‌
star6.0
calendar 1948

Red Mountain

Red Mountain‌
star6.1
calendar 1951

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan‌
star5.9
calendar 1954

The Girl from Monterrey

The Girl from Monterrey‌
star0.0
calendar 1943

Indian Paint

Indian Paint‌
star5.3
calendar 1965

The Wild Blue Yonder

The Wild Blue Yonder‌
star6.0
calendar 1951

Jack McCall, Desperado

Jack McCall, Desperado‌
star5.3
calendar 1953

Return to Warbow

Return to Warbow‌
star5.8
calendar 1958

The Vanishing American

The Vanishing American‌
star4.0
calendar 1955

Masterson of Kansas

Masterson of Kansas‌
star5.8
calendar 1954

The Nebraskan

The Nebraskan‌
star3.0
calendar 1953

In Pursuit of Treasure

In Pursuit of Treasure‌
star0.0
calendar 1972

The Pathfinder

The Pathfinder‌
star4.0
calendar 1952

The Cowboy and the Indians

The Cowboy and the Indians‌
star6.8
calendar 1949

Four Guns to the Border

Four Guns to the Border‌
star4.5
calendar 1954

Family Honeymoon

Family Honeymoon‌
star5.7
calendar 1948

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow‌
star6.7
calendar 1950

Brave Warrior

Brave Warrior‌
star4.0
calendar 1952

War Arrow

War Arrow‌
star5.6
calendar 1953

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre‌
star8.0
calendar 1948

Sand

Sand‌
star4.5
calendar 1949

True Grit

True Grit‌
star7.4
calendar 1969

The Battle at Apache Pass

The Battle at Apache Pass‌
star6.3
calendar 1952

Walk the Proud Land

Walk the Proud Land‌
star6.1
calendar 1956

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

Enter the Lone Ranger

Enter the Lone Ranger‌
star3.5
calendar 1949

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

The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s‌
star0.0
calendar 2002

Lust for Gold

Lust for Gold‌
star5.9
calendar 1949

Key Largo

Key Largo‌
star7.5
calendar 1948

Perils of Nyoka

Perils of Nyoka‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

Kit Carson

Kit Carson‌
star5.9
calendar 1940

Gas House Kids Go West

Gas House Kids Go West‌
star6.0
calendar 1947

Laramie

Laramie‌
star6.5
calendar 1949

Last of the Comanches

Last of the Comanches‌
star6.4
calendar 1953

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk‌
star7.1
calendar 1940

Too Many Girls

Too Many Girls‌
star5.7
calendar 1940

Trail of the Yukon

Trail of the Yukon‌
star6.0
calendar 1949

The Prairie

The Prairie‌
star6.0
calendar 1947

This Woman Is Mine

This Woman Is Mine‌
star3.2
calendar 1941

Western Union

Western Union‌
star6.0
calendar 1941

Singin' Spurs

Singin' Spurs‌
star0.0
calendar 1948

Valley of the Sun

Valley of the Sun‌
star5.8
calendar 1942

Smith!

Smith!‌
star5.6
calendar 1969

Yellow Sky

Yellow Sky‌
star6.9
calendar 1948

Lost in a Harem

Lost in a Harem‌
star5.5
calendar 1944

I Am an American

I Am an American‌
star5.3
calendar 1944

Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes

Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes‌
star0.0
calendar 2001

Alias Jesse James

Alias Jesse James‌
star5.9
calendar 1959

Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou‌
star0.0
calendar 1971

The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man

The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man‌
star0.0
calendar

Tv Credits

The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch‌
star6.7
calendar 1969

Cannon

Cannon‌
star6.5
calendar 1971

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

Pistols 'n' Petticoats‌
star7.5
calendar 1966

Rawhide

Rawhide‌
star7.0
calendar 1959

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone‌
star6.9
calendar 1964

Branded

Branded‌
star6.4
calendar 1965

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Wanted: Dead or Alive‌
star6.9
calendar 1958

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger‌
star6.8
calendar 1949

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone‌
star6.9
calendar 1964

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone‌
star6.9
calendar 1964

The Virginian

The Virginian‌
star6.4
calendar 1962

The Virginian

The Virginian‌
star6.4
calendar 1962