Jay Silverheels
Birthday
1912/05/26
Day of death
1980/03/05 (67 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Also know as
Harold J. Smith, Harry Silversmith, Harry Smith
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...Read more
Acting
(1948) The Feathered Serpent
as Diego (uncredited)
(1968) The Movie Orgy
as Tonto (archive footage)
(1960) Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
as Natchez
(1944) Tahiti Nights
as Lua
(1973) The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
as The Chief
(1970) The Phynx
as Tonto
(1973) One Little Indian
as Jimmy Wolf
(1952) Yankee Buccaneer
as Lead Warrior
(1973) Santee
as John Crow
(1947) Captain from Castile
as Coatl (uncredited)
(1943) Northern Pursuit
as Indian (uncredited)
(1943) The Phantom
as Astari Warrior (uncredited)
(1952) The Half-Breed
as Apache (uncredited)
(1967) Pistols 'n' Petticoats
as Great Bear
(1956) The Lone Ranger
as Tonto
(1958) The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
as Tonto
(1954) Drums Across the River
as Taos
(1949) Tulsa
as Creek Indian (uncredited)
(1954) The Black Dakotas
as Black Buffalo
(1948) Fury at Furnace Creek
as Little Dog (uncredited)
(1951) Red Mountain
as Little Crow
(1954) Saskatchewan
as Cajou
(1943) The Girl from Monterrey
as Fighter Tito Flores
(1965) Indian Paint
as Chief Hevatanu
(1951) The Wild Blue Yonder
as Benders
(1953) Jack McCall, Desperado
as Red Cloud
(1958) Return to Warbow
as Indian Joe
(1955) The Vanishing American
as Beeteia
(1954) Masterson of Kansas
as Yellow Hawk
(1953) The Nebraskan
as Spotted Bear
(1972) In Pursuit of Treasure
as ---
(1952) The Pathfinder
as Chingachgook
(1949) The Cowboy and the Indians
as Lakohna
(1954) Four Guns to the Border
as Yaqui
(1948) Family Honeymoon
as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
(1950) Broken Arrow
as Geronimo (uncredited)
(1952) Brave Warrior
as Chief Tecumseh
(1953) War Arrow
as Satanta
(1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as Indian Guide at Pier (uncredited)
(1949) Sand
as Indian (uncredited)
(1969) True Grit
as Condemned Man at Hanging (uncredited)
(1952) The Battle at Apache Pass
as Geronimo
(1956) Walk the Proud Land
as Geronimo
(1952) The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
as Tonto
(2002) The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s
as ---
(1949) Lust for Gold
as Walter
(1948) Key Largo
as Tom Osceola (uncredited)
(1942) Perils of Nyoka
as Tuareg
(1940) Kit Carson
as Indian
(1947) Gas House Kids Go West
as Kingsley's Henchman (uncredited)
(1949) Laramie
as Running Wolf (uncredited)
(1953) Last of the Comanches
as Indian (uncredited)
(1940) The Sea Hawk
as Native Lookout
(1940) Too Many Girls
as Indian
(1949) Trail of the Yukon
as Poleon
(1947) The Prairie
as Running Deer
(1941) This Woman Is Mine
as Indian Marauder
(1941) Western Union
as Indian
(1948) Singin' Spurs
as Abel
(1942) Valley of the Sun
as Indian (uncredited)
(1969) Smith!
as McDonald Lasheway
(1948) Yellow Sky
as Indian (uncredited)
(1944) Lost in a Harem
as Guard at Execution (uncredited)
(1944) I Am an American
as Indian (uncredited)
(2001) Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes
as Tonto
(1959) Alias Jesse James
as Tonto (uncredited)
(1971) Cat Ballou
as Indian Chief
(2013) The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man
as Tonto
(1958) The Western: A Lost TV Special
as Self
(1969) The Brady Bunch
as ---
(1971) Cannon
as ---
(1966) Pistols 'n' Petticoats
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Pawnee Joe
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Sashona
(1965) Branded
as ---
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Charley Red Cloud
(1949) The Lone Ranger
as Tonto
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Latawa
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Chenrogan
(1962) The Virginian
as Den'Gwatzi
(1962) The Virginian
as Spotted Hand