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 "...
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The Feathered Serpent
As Diego (uncredited)
The Movie Orgy
As Tonto (archive footage)
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
As Natchez
Tahiti Nights
As Lua
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
As The Chief
The Phynx
As Tonto
One Little Indian
As Jimmy Wolf
Yankee Buccaneer
As Lead Warrior
Santee
As John Crow
Captain from Castile
As Coatl (uncredited)
Northern Pursuit
As Indian (uncredited)
The Phantom
As Astari Warrior (uncredited)
The Half-Breed
As Apache (uncredited)
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
As Great Bear
The Lone Ranger
As Tonto
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
As Tonto
Drums Across the River
As Taos
Tulsa
As Creek Indian (uncredited)
The Black Dakotas
As Black Buffalo
Fury at Furnace Creek
As Little Dog (uncredited)
Red Mountain
As Little Crow
Saskatchewan
As Cajou
The Girl from Monterrey
As Fighter Tito Flores
Indian Paint
As Chief Hevatanu
The Wild Blue Yonder
As Benders
Jack McCall, Desperado
As Red Cloud
Return to Warbow
As Indian Joe
The Vanishing American
As Beeteia
Masterson of Kansas
As Yellow Hawk
The Nebraskan
As Spotted Bear
In Pursuit of Treasure
The Pathfinder
As Chingachgook
The Cowboy and the Indians
As Lakohna
Four Guns to the Border
As Yaqui
Family Honeymoon
As Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Broken Arrow
As Geronimo
Brave Warrior
As Chief Tecumseh
War Arrow
As Satanta
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
As Indian Guide at Pier (uncredited)
Sand
As Indian (uncredited)
True Grit
As Condemned Man at Hanging (uncredited)
The Battle at Apache Pass
As Geronimo
Walk the Proud Land
As Geronimo
The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
As Tonto
Enter the Lone Ranger
As Tonto
The Ultimate Collection Starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 60s and 70s
Lust for Gold
As Walter
Key Largo
As Tom Osceola (uncredited)
Perils of Nyoka
As Tuareg
Kit Carson
As Indian
Gas House Kids Go West
As Kingsley's Henchman (uncredited)
Laramie
As Running Wolf (uncredited)
Last of the Comanches
As Indian (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk
As Native Lookout
Too Many Girls
As Indian
Trail of the Yukon
As Poleon
The Prairie
As Running Deer
This Woman Is Mine
As Indian Marauder
Western Union
As Indian
Singin' Spurs
As Abel
Valley of the Sun
As Indian
Smith!
As McDonald Lasheway
Yellow Sky
As Indian (uncredited)
Lost in a Harem
As Guard at Execution (uncredited)
I Am an American
As Indian (uncredited)
Lone Ranger: Lost Episodes
As Tonto
Alias Jesse James
As Tonto (uncredited)
Cat Ballou
As Indian Chief
The Lone Ranger: Who Was That Masked Man
As Tonto
The Brady Bunch
Cannon
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Rawhide
As Pawnee Joe
Daniel Boone
As Sashona
Branded
Wanted: Dead or Alive
As Charley Red Cloud
The Lone Ranger
As Tonto
The Virginian
As Den'Gwatzi