Jay Silverheels

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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 televisio…

  • Acting
  • Born 26 May 1912
  • Died 5 March 1980 (age 67)
  • Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
  • 83 credits

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Most-watched Jay Silverheels films currently: True Grit (1969), Broken Arrow (1950), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Brave Warrior (1952), Key Largo (1948).

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Selected TV credits: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), The Virginian (1962), Daniel Boone (1964), Cannon (1971), The Lone Ranger (1949).

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