Jay Silverheels

Familiar Canadian Indian actor who shot to fame as Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the masked man on the US television series The Lone Ranger (1949). A member of the Mohawk tribe of Canada's Six Nations Reserve, Silverheels excelled at wrestling, horse racing, football, boxing, and hockey, and became a renowned lacrosse player. Jay Silverheels was an American-Canadian actor and athlete. He is best remembered for his character ‘Tonto’ in the TV series ‘The Lone Ranger.’. Since Silverheels was born into a family of indigenous Americans, he excelled in the portrayal of ‘Tonto’ who was also a Native American. Silverheels led a life of poverty in his childhood. Jay Silverheels. Actor: The Lone Ranger. 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 ...

Jay Silverheels. Actor: The Lone Ranger. 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 ... Jay Silverheels (born Harold Jay Smith, May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) [1] was an Aboriginal Canadian actor and athlete. [2] He was well known for his role as Tonto, the Native American sidekick of the Lone Ranger [3] [4] in the American western television series The Lone Ranger. WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., March 5 (AP)--Jay Silverheels, who co-starred in "The Lone Ranger" television series as the faithful Indian sidekick Tonto, died of complications from... Jay Silverheels was one of the most famous and successful Canadian actors in the history of Hollywood. For decades, The Lone Ranger and his trusty sidekick Tonto were pop culture symbols as universally identifiable as Mickey Mouse. And the actor who made Tonto come alive during the entire TV run of The Lone Ranger (1949-57) was a handsome, dark-haired, sometimes-Buffalonian named Jay Silverheels. Silverheels’s real name was Harry J. Smith, born into a prominent Mohawk-Seneca family at Six Nations of the Grand River, Ont., 75 miles west of Buffalo.

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., March 5 (AP)--Jay Silverheels, who co-starred in "The Lone Ranger" television series as the faithful Indian sidekick Tonto, died of complications from... Jay Silverheels was one of the most famous and successful Canadian actors in the history of Hollywood. For decades, The Lone Ranger and his trusty sidekick Tonto were pop culture symbols as universally identifiable as Mickey Mouse. And the actor who made Tonto come alive during the entire TV run of The Lone Ranger (1949-57) was a handsome, dark-haired, sometimes-Buffalonian named Jay Silverheels. Silverheels’s real name was Harry J. Smith, born into a prominent Mohawk-Seneca family at Six Nations of the Grand River, Ont., 75 miles west of Buffalo. Jay Silverheels (1912–1980) was a Mohawk Canadian of the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, located in Ontario. Born into poverty in a society that marginalized Amerindian voices, Jay...