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Silverheels at Say publicly Meadows Course in Penn, 1970s | |
| Born | Harold Jurist Smith Possibly will 26, 1912 Six Nations duplicate the Famous River, Lake, Canada |
| Died | March 5, 1980 (aged 67) Calabasas, Calif., US |
| Nationality | Mohawk / Canadian |
| Occupation | Actor, act man, jock, poet, salesman |
| Years active | 1937–1980 |
| Known for | Tonto |
| Television | Tonto in The Lone Ranger (TV series) |
| Spouse(s) | Bobbi Smith (m. 19??; div. 1943) |
| Children | 6 |
Jay Silverheels (born Harold Jay Smith; May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was an Natural Canadian doer and player. He was well publish for his role considerably Tonto, rendering Native Denizen companion raise the Single Ranger derive the Dweller Westerntelevision seriesThe Lone Ranger.
Early life
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Jay Silverheels was born on Canada's Six Nation's Reserve and was one of 10 children. 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 through the 1940s before gaining notice as the Osceola brother in a Humphrey Bogart film Key Largo (1948). Most of Silverheels' roles consisted of bit parts as an Indian character. In 1949, he worked in the movie The Cowboy and the Indians (1949) with another "B movie" actor Clayton Moore. Later that year, Silverheels was hired to play the faithful Indian companion, Tonto, in the TV series The Lone Ranger (1949) series, which brought him the fame that his motion picture career never did.
Silverheels recreated the role of Tonto in two big-screen color movies with Moore,The Lone Ranger (1956) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). After the TV series ended in 1957, Silverheels could not escape the typecasting of Tonto. He would continue to appear in an occasional film and television show but became a spokesperson to improve the portrayal of Indians in the media.
BornMay 26, 1912
DiedMarch 5, 1980(67)
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Overview
This lesson is based on viewing the Jay Silverheels biography from The Canadians series. First Nations actor Jay Silverheels struggled to establish himself as a serious and diverse actor despite being typecast as the "Indian brave" in roles like Tonto in the "Lone Ranger."
Aims
Through a variety of creative and theatrical activities, students will examine Jay Silverheels's career and accomplishments while exploring the broader issues of racism, stereotyping, typecasting, and images of First Nations in film and television.
Background
"Me do, kemo sabe."
Who knew that the faithful Indian sidekick to the Lone Ranger cringed inside each time he said these words? Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels played the monosyllabic, stoic Tonto with poker-faced perfection. In 1949, at age 35, he became the first Indigenous actor to play a Native American on television, and he became the symbolic “Indian” to a generation. While the handsome actor would later play alongside some of Hollywood's finest, found a school for Indigenous actors and prove himself a talented thespian, he would never escape being typecast as “the Indian brave.”
Jay Silverheels: The Man Beside The Mask takes viewers into the life of a young