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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 .
Mar 25, 2021 · Actor Jay Silverheels who played Tonto in the popular television series of the 1950's, "The Lone Ranger" cries during a Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in Los Angeles, Thursday, July 19, 1979. (AP ...
Mar 30, 2024 · John Hart. The Lone Ranger, Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans. John Lewis Hart (December 13, 1917 – September 20, 2009), also credited as John Hilton was an American film and television actor. In his early career, Hart appeared mostly in Westerns. Although Hart played mostly minor roles in some fairly well known films, he was probably best ...
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The Lone Ranger is an American Western television series that aired on the ABC Television network from 1949 to 1957, with Clayton Moore in the starring role. Jay Silverheels, a member of the Mohawk Aboriginal people in Canada, played the Lone Ranger's Indian companion Tonto.
- 5 (9 years)
- 221 (list of episodes)
- September 15, 1949 –, June 6, 1957
- ABC
The Lone Ranger: Created by George W. Trendle, George W. George. With Jay Silverheels, Clayton Moore, John Hart, Bill Ward. The adventures of the masked hero and his Native American partner.
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- 1949-09-15
- Western
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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...
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).
