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Jay Silverheels (born Harold Jay Smith; May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980, Mohawk) [1] was a Canadian actor and athlete, descended from three Iroquois nations. [2] He was well known for his role as Tonto , the Native American companion of the Lone Ranger [ 3 ] [ 4 ] in the American Western television series The Lone Ranger .
Silverheels joined him for occasional reunions during the early 1960s. Throughout his career, Moore expressed respect and love for Silverheels. [9]: 143–149 One of Moore’s personal appearances in character became the basis of a story that actor Jay Thomas told every year around Christmas beginning in 2000 on The Late Show with David ...
Acting lessons were given by Silverheels, Noble Kid Chissel and William Bassett. [ 5 ] The published short-lived The Indian Actors Workshop Newsletter in 1976 was created by the Northwestern University Theatre in Evanston, Illinois, and reported on the American Theatre Association sessions.
Captain from Castile was the feature film debut of Jean Peters, who later married industrialist Howard Hughes, and of Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels, who later portrayed Tonto on the television series The Lone Ranger. The film is an adaptation of the 1945 best-selling novel Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger.
Jay Silverheels portrayed the arguably best-remembered version in The Lone Ranger television series. This was the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit". [4] Ivan Naranjo, a Blackfoot/Southern Ute actor from Colorado, voiced the character in The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour.
He doubled for stars such as Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Audie Murphy, Tyrone Power, David Janssen, Telly Savalas and Jay Silverheels. He appeared in more than 67 films included Bite the Bullet , The Outlaw Josey Wales , The Legend of the Lone Ranger , The Gambler II , Nevada Smith , Bronco Billy , The Enforcer and The Great Race .
Jay Silverheels, Clayton Moore and Silver from The Lone Ranger.(1960). The Lone Ranger is an American Western television series that originally aired on the ABC network. The series starred Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels as the Lone Ranger and Tonto, except for season three when John Hart played the role of the Lone Ranger.
His friend Jay Silverheels was involved in breeding, training and racing Standardbred horses. After Silverheels died from complications of pneumonia on March 5, 1980 at the age of 62, [9] Smith named a horse Hi Ho Silverheels in his honour. He raced it as a pacer. [1] [6] [7]