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4. Juli 2013 · Before Johnny Depp stepped into the role of Tonto, Ontario born Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels was remembered at THE Tonto, the faithful 'Injun sidekick', in t...
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20. Okt. 2023 · Here are 9 interesting facts about Clayton Moore and his journey to becoming the Lone Ranger — on-screen and off. 1. Moore performed in a trapeze group at the Chicago World’s Fair. Jack Carlton Moore was born in Chicago on September 14, 1914, the youngest of three brothers born to Theresa Fisher and Sprague Moore.
17. Feb. 2017 · He was born Harold Jay Smith and later changed his name to Jay Silverheels, but to many he will always be remembered as Tonto. Silverheels was born May 26, 1912 on the Six Nations reserve in Ohsweken, Ont. The Lone Ranger, which told the tale of a mysterious masked man and his faithful Indian companion as they fought to bring peace and justice ...
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 ...
24. Okt. 2016 · And the actor who made Tonto come alive during the entire TV run of The Lone Ranger (1949-57) was a handsome, dark-haired, sometimes-Buffalonian named Jay Silverheels. Silverheels’s real name was Harry J. Smith, born into a prominent Mohawk-Seneca family at Six Nations of the Grand River, Ont., 75 miles west of Buffalo.
Masterson Of Kansas (1954) -- (Movie Clip) The Laws Of The White Man More rapid plot progress, George Montgomery as the title-role sheriff of Dodge City confronts Jay Silverheels as neighboring chief Yellow Hawk, reluctant to hand over falsely-accused rancher and “Peacemaker” Merrick (John Maxwell), whose schoolteacher daughter Amy (Nancy Gates) offers support in jail, early in Masterson ...
But he waited until 1938, when he began working as an extra in cowboy-and-Indian epics. He did not win a speaking role until well into the 1940s. Silverheels made his last public appearance when a star bearing his name was embedded in the sidewalk in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. —Jerry Belcher in the Los Angeles Times March 6, 1980.
