Iron Eyes Cody

Iron Eyes Cody

Acting 1907-04-03 Gueydan, Louisiana, USA

Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti), was an Italian American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface. He also played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements, "Keep America Beautiful". Cody began acting in the early 1930s. He worked in film and television until his death. Cody claimed his father was Cherokee (and his mother Cree), also naming several different tribes, and frequently changing his claimed place of birth. To those unfamiliar with Indigenous American or First Nations cultures and people, he gave the appearance of living "as if" he were Native American, fulfilling the stereotypical expectations by wearing his film wardrobe as daily clothing—including braided wig, fringed leathers and beaded moccasins—at least when photographers were visiting, and in other ways continuing to play the same Hollywood-scripted roles off-screen as well as on. He appeared in more than 200 films, including The Big Trail with John Wayne; The Scarlet Letter, with Colleen Moore; Sitting Bull, as Crazy Horse; The Light in the Forest as Cuyloga; The Great Sioux Massacre, with Joseph Cotten; Nevada Smith, with Steve McQueen; A Man Called Horse, with Richard Harris; and Ernest Goes to Camp as Chief St. Cloud, with Jim Varney. In 1953, he appeared twice in Duncan Renaldo's syndicated television series, The Cisco Kid as Chief Sky Eagle. He guest starred on the NBC western series, The Restless Gun, starring John Payne, and The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. In 1961, he played the title role in "The Burying of Sammy Hart" on the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. A close friend of Walt Disney, Cody appeared in a Disney studio serial titled The First Americans, and in episodes of The Mountain Man, Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. In 1964 Cody appeared as Chief Black Feather on The Virginian in the episode "The Intruders." He also appeared in a 1968 episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood featuring Native American dancers. Cody was widely seen as the "Crying Indian" in the "Keep America Beautiful" public service announcements (PSA) in the early 1970s.The environmental commercial showed Cody in costume, shedding a tear after trash is thrown from the window of a car and it lands at his feet. The announcer, William Conrad, says: "People start pollution; people can stop it." The Joni Mitchell song "Lakota", from the 1988 album, Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm, features Cody's chanting. He made a cameo appearance in the 1990 film Spirit of '76. Living in Hollywood, he began to insist, even in his private life, that he was Native American, over time claiming membership in several different tribes. In 1996, Cody's half-sister said that he was of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. After his death, it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage, and not Native American at all. Cody, at age 94, died of mesothelioma at his home in Los Angeles on January 4, 1999.

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2024 Crying Indian (archival footage)
1990 Iron Eyes Cody
1987 Old Indian Chief
1983 Chief Watashi
1980 Self
1977 Standing Bear
1976 Old Indian
1970 Medicine Man
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1970 Santana
1969 Chanter
1969 Chief John Carbona
1968 Medicine Man
1967
1966 Taka-Ta (uncredited)
1965 Crazy Horse
1965 Medicine Man
1965
1962 Charlie Two-Bits
1962 Chief Black Feather
1961 Self
1961 Chief Thundercloud
1960
1959 2nd Indian on Train (uncredited)
1959 Medicine Man (uncredited)
1959 Sammy Hart
1959 John Redcloud
1958 Cuyloga's Counsellor
1958 1st Indian Chief
1958
1957 Cheyenne Indian (uncredited)
1957 Eskimo Pilot (uncredited)
1957 Joe White Cloud
1957 Indian (uncredited)
1956 Mountain Cloud
1956 Chief
1956 Many Stars
1956 Red Rock
1955
1955 Indian
1954 Chief Rasacura (uncredited)
1954 Crazy Horse
1953 Ben Iron Mountain
1952 Indian with Pat (uncredited)
1952 Male Model
1952 Chief Yellow Cloud
1952 Apache with Major Dekker's Hat
1952 Canook (uncredited)
1952 Henchman Cherokee
1952 Osage Brave - Blue Shirt
1951 Brave Bear (as Iron Eyes)
1951 Indian Copy Boy (uncredited)
1951 Ute Indian
1950 Teese (uncredited)
1950 Indian Who Slugs Cody (archive footage) (uncredited)
1950 Indian
1950 Longknife
1950 Chief Big Cloud
1949 Chief Iron Eyes (uncredited)
1949 Indian (uncredited)
1949 Indian Farmer (uncredited)
1949 Chief Yellowstone
1948 Chief Iron Eyes
1948 Geronimo
1948 Indian Warrior
1948 Wovoka
1948 Toma (uncredited)
1947 Indian Joe
1947 Red Corn
1944 Indian Scaring Caroline (uncredited)
1943 Native (uncredited)
1942 Indian (uncredited
1942 Arab
1942 Indian (uncredited)
1942 Indian
1942 1st Friendly Indian
1942 Indian (uncredited)
1942 Indian
1942 Indian
1942 Indian
1942 Indian (uncredited)
1942 Native Henchman at Mill [Ch. 5]
1942 White Cloud (uncredited)
1941 Indian (uncredited)
1941 Carlos
1941 Black Eagle
1941 Hostile Indian
1941 Indian
1941 Indian Who Drinks Chemical Solution
1940 indian
1940 Acuna's Aide
1940 Indian (uncredited)
1940 Indian (uncredited)
1940 Indian
1940 Indian Henchman
1940 Big Bear
1940 Indian
1940 Indian
1940 Indian (uncredited)
1940 Indian Brave (Uncredited)
1940 Killer
1940 Indian (uncredited)
1940 Stunts
1939 Running Wolf
1939 Brave
1939 Indian Joe - Harrington's Henchman
1939 Indian Chief
1939 Crow Foot
1939 Indian (uncredited)
1939 2nd Indian at Post
1939 Wild West Show Indian
1939 Indian
1939 Stunts
1938 Bullet-Bringer
1938 Rodeo Indian (uncredited)
1937 Indian (uncredited)
1936 Indian Dancer (uncredited)
1936 Chief Brown Fox
1936 Little Deer
1936 Comanche War Party Leader (uncredited)
1936 Indian (uncredited)
1936 Chief Brown Fox
1935 Cat Man
1935 Indian
1934 Cat Man
1934 Temple Guard
1934 Indian (uncredited)
1933 Cheyenne Rider
1933 Circus Indian
1932 Indian (uncredited)
1932 John Tom
1932 Indian at Sideshow (uncredited)
1932 Little Eagle
1931 War Eagle
1928 Indian (uncredited)