John Trudell
Birthday
1946/02/15
Day of death
2015/12/08 (69 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Also know as
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Biography
John Trudell was an American Indian author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After his pregnant wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed in 1979 in a fire at the home of his parents-in-law on the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes...Read more
Acting
(1998) Smoke Signals
as Randy Peone
(1999) Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
as Self - Santee Sioux
(2007) The 11th Hour
as Self
(1989) Powwow Highway
as Louie Short Hair
(2003) Dreamkeeper
as Coyote
(2010) Reel Injun
as Self
(2005) A Thousand Roads
as Narrator (voice)
(2015) Taking Alcatraz
as Self (archive footage)
(1992) Incident at Oglala
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
(2005) Trudell
as Self / Narrator (voice)
(1992) Thunderheart
as Jimmy Looks Twice
(1996) Extreme Measures
as Tony
(1994) On Deadly Ground
as Johnny Redfeather
(2009) No More Smoke Signals
as self
(2017) Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
as Self
(2012) Dark Blood
as Indian #2
(2022) Lakota Nation vs. United States
as Self (archive footage)
(1996) The West
as Self