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Jay Silverheels (born Harold Jay Smith; May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) [1] was an Indigenous Canadian actor and athlete. [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 .
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 (1948). Most of Silverheels' roles consisted of...
- May 26, 1912
- March 5, 1980
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 ...
- January 1, 1
- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Mar 6, 1980 · By From news dispatches. March 5, 1980 at 7:00 p.m. EST. WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. -- Jay Silverheels, 62, who costarred in the long-running "Lone Ranger" television series as the faithful Indian ...
Mar 25, 2021 · Jay Silverheels helped make Tonto one of the most memorable characters in TV history. The loyal and trustworthy companion to the Lone Ranger was by his side from 1949 to 1957, during the entire ...
Jay Silverheels was born Harold Jay Smith, on May 26, 1912, in Six Nations of the Grand River, near Ontario, Canada. He hailed from the indigenous American tribe, Mohawk. Captain Alexander George Edwin Smith was his father, and Mabel Phoebe Doxtater was his mother.
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Mar 15, 2009 · Of Jay Silverheels he wrote, "Jay was from back East, where he was a champion lacrosse player and a very good boxer till he got one of his eyes bopped out. Had himself fitted with a glass eye and, some vague notion of becoming a professional gambler, he packed up his lacrosse stick and headed West.
