Jay Silverheels

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 that same year that Jay would be hired to play the faithful Indian companion, Tonto, in the television series "The Lone Ranger" (1949). This role, while still playing the "Indian," would bring Jay the fame that his motion picture career never did. As Tonto, on his horse Scout, Jay could show up where the Ranger could not and some of the time he would be shot at or beat up for his trouble. Jay would play Tonto in all the episodes except for those that he missed when he had his heart attack. In those episodes, he was replaced by the Ranger's nephew, Dan. However, Clayton Moore would miss the third season when he was replaced by John Hart. Jay would reprise the role of Tonto in two big-screen color movies with Moore, The Lone Ranger (1956) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). After the series ended in 1957, Jay could not escape the typecasting of Tonto. He would continue to appear in an occasional film and television show, but he would become a spokesman to improve the portrayal of Indians on TV.

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1969 Condemned Man at Hanging (uncredited)
1969 McDonald Lasheway
1968 Tonto (archive footage)
1967 Great Bear
1965 Chief Hevatanu
1965
1964 Sashona
1964 Chenrogan
1964 Latawa
1962 Den'Gwatzi
1962 Spotted Hand
1961 Hopi Indian
1959 Tonto (uncredited)
1959 Pawnee Joe
1958 Indian Joe
1958 Charley Red Cloud
1956 Tonto
1956 Geronimo
1955 Beeteia
1954 Taos
1954 Black Buffalo
1954 Cajou
1954 Yellow Hawk
1954 Yaqui
1953 Red Cloud
1953 Spotted Bear
1953 Satanta
1953 Indian (uncredited)
1952 Lead Warrior
1952 Apache (uncredited)
1952 Chingachgook
1952 Chief Tecumseh
1952 Geronimo
1951 Little Crow
1951 Benders
1950 Geronimo (uncredited)
1949 Creek Indian (uncredited)
1949 Lakohna
1949 Indian (uncredited)
1949 Walter
1949 Running Wolf (uncredited)
1949 Poleon
1949 Tonto
1948 Diego (uncredited)
1948 Little Dog (uncredited)
1948 Elevator Boy (uncredited)
1948 Indian Guide at Pier (uncredited)
1948 Tom Osceola (uncredited)
1948 Abel
1948 Indian (uncredited)
1947 Coatl (uncredited)
1947 Kingsley's Henchman (uncredited)
1947 Running Deer
1944 Lua
1944 Guard at Execution (uncredited)
1944 Indian (uncredited)
1943 Indian (uncredited)
1943 Astari Warrior (uncredited)
1943 Fighter Tito Flores
1942 Tuareg
1942 Indian (uncredited)
1941 Indian Marauder
1941 Indian
1940 Indian
1940 Native Lookout
1940 Indian
1940 Indian (uncredited)