Jay Silverheels — Actor (10)
The Cowboy and the Indians (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Cowboy and the Indians
director: John English actor: Gene Autry / Champion
Finding Indians stealing from his ranch, Gene learns they are suffering from malnutrition. Store owner Martin is cheating them and now he is after the Chief's valuable necklace. When the dying chief is found, having been attacked and robbed, Martin blames Lakhona who would become the new chief. When Gene helps Lakhona they soon find themselves fleeing from the law.
Sand (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sand
director: Louis King actor: Mark Stevens / Coleen Gray
other title: / 春情烈馬
Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's Sand was based. Mark Stevens plays horse breeder Jeff Keane, who loses his prize stallion in a train accident. While the stallion roams wild and free, Keane enlists the aid of rancher Joan Hartley (Coleen Gray) in searching for the animal. Once the horse is located, it is clear that it has developed a mean streak, the result of various cruelties inflicted upon it by humans. Jeff and Joan combine their efforts to regain the horse's friendship. Veteran Native American actors Iron Eyes Cody and Jay Silverheels make significant supporting appearances. Sand was attractively filmed in Technicolor on location in Colorado.
Santee (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Santee
director: Gary Nelson actor: Glenn Ford / Michael Burns
other title: Santee, der Einzelgänger / Tres Flechas
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
Walk the Proud Land (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Walk the Proud Land
director: Jesse Hibbs actor: Audie Murphy / Anne Bancroft
other title: Ritt in den Tod / L'homme de San Carlos
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apache based on respect for autonomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow given to him as housekeeper. Through use of diplomacy and demonstrations of faith in Apache leaders, reservation is put on the road to autonomy. Conflicts arise between Apache widow and Eastern wife but latter has a lot to learn.
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
other title: Der Held mit der Maske / El llanero solitario y la ciudad perdida del oro
Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large silver plaque which served as a treasure map to a secret location where a large amount of gold is reputedly stashed. Two more medallions are unaccounted for, and the The Lone Ranger and his friend Tonto must use all their resources to intercept the gang, prevent further carnage and save the owners of the medallions.
War Arrow (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
War Arrow
other title: A Última Avançada / Verschwörung auf Fort Clark
A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to stop a planned Kiowa attack.
The Lone Ranger (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Lone Ranger
other title: 론 레인저 / Der weiße Reiter
The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians who ride with saddles. Wealthy rancher Reese Kilgore wants to mine silver on Spirit Mountain which is sacred to the Indians.