Jay Silverheels
ActingBorn: May 26, 1912 in Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Biography
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 calle...
All Credits83 Titles
Film
72 Titles
7.3
FILM
True Grit1969
8.0
FILM
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948
6.7
FILM
Broken Arrow1950
7.5
FILM
Key Largo1948
7.0
FILM
Yellow Sky1948
6.6
FILM
The Movie Orgy1968
6.0
FILM
Western Union1941
6.4
FILM
Tulsa1949
7.2
FILM
The Sea Hawk1940
6.0
FILM
Alias Jesse James1959
5.9
FILM
Smith!1969
5.8
FILM
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing1973
6.7
FILM
Red Mountain1951
6.6
FILM
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold1958
6.3
FILM
The Lone Ranger1956
6.2
FILM
Northern Pursuit1943
Series
11 Titles
7.5
SERIES
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962–
6.5
SERIES
The Virginian1962–
6.7
SERIES
Cannon1971–
7.0
SERIES
Daniel Boone1964–
7.2
SERIES
Rawhide1959–
7.0
SERIES
Wanted: Dead or Alive1958–
6.8
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The Lone Ranger1949–
6.7
SERIES
The Brady Bunch1969–
6.8
SERIES
Branded1965–
7.6
SERIES
Pistols 'n' Petticoats1966–
6.3
SERIES
Gunslinger1961–