Jay Silverheels
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 called The Cowboy and the Indians (1949) with another "B movie" actor named Clayton Moore. It was later t...
Also Known As
Harold J. Smith, Harry Silversmith, Harry Smith
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Jay Silverheels's Movies
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
15 Jan 1948
True Grit
11 Jun 1969
Key Largo
16 Jul 1948
Broken Arrow
21 Jul 1950
The Sea Hawk
10 Aug 1940
Yellow Sky
24 Dec 1948
Western Union
21 Feb 1941
Captain from Castile
25 Dec 1947
Lust for Gold
10 Jun 1949
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
28 Jun 1973
Alias Jesse James
20 Mar 1959
Tulsa
13 Apr 1949
The Lone Ranger
25 Feb 1956
One Little Indian
20 Jun 1973
Drums Across the River
01 Jun 1954
Saskatchewan
30 Mar 1954
War Arrow
26 Dec 1953
Last of the Comanches
01 Feb 1953
Northern Pursuit
07 Nov 1943
Red Mountain
01 Nov 1951
Jay Silverheels's TV Shows
The Brady Bunch
26 Sept 1969
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
01 Oct 1962
Rawhide
09 Jan 1959
Cannon
14 Sept 1971
Wanted: Dead or Alive
06 Sept 1958
The Lone Ranger
15 Sept 1949
The Virginian
19 Sept 1962
The Virginian
19 Sept 1962
Daniel Boone
24 Sept 1964
Daniel Boone
24 Sept 1964
Daniel Boone
24 Sept 1964
Branded
24 Jan 1965
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
17 Sept 1966
Gunslinger
09 Feb 1961