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  1. 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).

  2. Mar 15, 2009 · 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. ... A not-so-trusty "Injun," not worth half that of a white man. Jay Silverheels fled to the United States to ...

  3. Jul 21, 2019 · Jay Silverheels had accumulated a net worth of $1 million throughout his career before he passed away in 1980. He was a Lone Ranger who took a bag full of cash from a western hit series of the 1950s with the role of Tonto.

  4. Feb 15, 2022 · Jay Silverheels I the famouspeople.com Jay Silverheels Net Worth. Jay Silverheels had an estimated net worth of $3 million before he died. Music had contributed largely to his worth. Jay Silverheels Height. Jay Silverheels stands at a height of 6 feet and an inch tall and weighs about 82kg. Jay Silverheels Quotes

  5. 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.

  6. Dec 16, 2023 · Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk-Seneca actor, played Tonto in The Lone Ranger, becoming one of the most prolific faces in the Western genre. Silverheels, previously a lacrosse player, took on the role ...

  7. Oct 24, 2016 · 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.

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