Jay Silverheels

Acting

Jay Silverheels

Born 1912-05-26 Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada 73 films

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" a…

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Filmography

73 films
Santee poster

Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an…

Santee

★ 5.5 1973

Cat Ballou poster

A pretty ranch owner hires an alcoholic gunfighter to protect her ranch and her adopted boy from an…

Cat Ballou

★ 7.0 1971

The Phynx poster

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania…

The Phynx

★ 3.6 1970

True Grit poster

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging…

True Grit

★ 7.3 1969

Smith! poster

When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who…

Smith!

★ 5.8 1969

The Movie Orgy poster

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloo…

The Movie Orgy

★ 6.8 1968