Jay Silverheels
Acting 1912-05-26 Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
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
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The Movie Orgy
1968
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The Lone Ranger
1956
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Yankee Buccaneer
1952
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Captain from Castile
1947
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Tulsa
1949
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Northern Pursuit
1943
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One Little Indian
1973
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The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973
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The Phantom
1943
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The Half-Breed
1952
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The Phynx
1970
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Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1967
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Fury at Furnace Creek
1948
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Drums Across the River
1954
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The Feathered Serpent
1948
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
1958
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Santee
1973
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The Black Dakotas
1954
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Tahiti Nights
1944
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Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
1960