sipowicz
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True...his real name was "Dances with mustached women."
Who's your favorite Native American Actor?
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True...his real name was "Dances with mustached women."
mc5aw
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See post #8 ... F-R-A-N-K D-E-K-O-V-A
Mike McLellan
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Well, I'm a little partial to Topak Shakur in LA something or other.
Let's see, I always enjoyed Victor Mature in "Chief Crazy Horse." And then there was Burt Lancaster in "Apache," or Anthony Quinn in "Crazy Horse," and Jack Palance in "Arrowhead." Of course, who can forget Charles Bronson in his many roles in movies such as "Drum Beat," "Captain Jack," and yes even in "Apache." There are so many more, even my favorite Native American actor, Paul Newman, with his role in "Hombre." If I remember correctly, there was even a couple of Ricardo Montalban roles in there, too...
Gotta love those 50s "Westerns."
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Delos
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Favorite Native American Actor
I nominate Charles Bronson for Chato’s land.
(Oops parents were Polish and Lithuanian, born surname was Buchinsky)
Chato's Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh well - I pick Jack Palance as my most favorite. Oops, his parents were Ukrainian, last name originally Palahniuk)
Jack Palance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That singing married couple Sonny and Cher -- I heard Cher Bono was half Indian? But the internet says her birth name was Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere.
All that I know for sure is how good Barbara Eden looked in I Dream of Jeanie. And she married a guy that played Cochise way too well. Naturally I was jealous and considered him a bad person. Then I look him up on the internet and he was from Syria.
Okay, maybe perhaps there were three Native Americans in Hollywood prior to Dances With Wolves???
Leo Carillo was the Original Pancho Villa. And Pancho in the Cisco Kid radio days And claims to have Conquistador ancestry. He is my favorite Native American actor.
Leo Carrillo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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(Trolling down the river, on a sunny afternoon)
I nominate Charles Bronson for Chato’s land.
(Oops parents were Polish and Lithuanian, born surname was Buchinsky)
Chato's Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh well - I pick Jack Palance as my most favorite. Oops, his parents were Ukrainian, last name originally Palahniuk)
Jack Palance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That singing married couple Sonny and Cher -- I heard Cher Bono was half Indian? But the internet says her birth name was Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere.
All that I know for sure is how good Barbara Eden looked in I Dream of Jeanie. And she married a guy that played Cochise way too well. Naturally I was jealous and considered him a bad person. Then I look him up on the internet and he was from Syria.
Okay, maybe perhaps there were three Native Americans in Hollywood prior to Dances With Wolves???
Leo Carillo was the Original Pancho Villa. And Pancho in the Cisco Kid radio days And claims to have Conquistador ancestry. He is my favorite Native American actor.
Leo Carrillo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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(Trolling down the river, on a sunny afternoon)
nachogrande
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true native Americans In serious roles Chief, from cuckoo's nest. then theres chief running chicken, F-troop and that short Kosher injun Dustin Hoffman
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feralmerril
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I think chuck conners played cochise. When I was a boy I wanted to be a indian when I grew up. Who was that woman politican about 6 months ago that bragged on being indian for political reasons and benifits? They found out she wasnt indian and then she come off with she had high cheek bones.
Found it.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/warren-brown-senate-indian/2012/09/04/id/450717/
Found it.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/warren-brown-senate-indian/2012/09/04/id/450717/
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vigil617
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How 'bout Marlon Brando stand-in Sasheen Littlefeather?
(If you remember this without looking it up, extra credit to you.)
I like all three of the OP's choices best. And even if Iron Eyes Cody was really an Italian, he has the hands-down best Indian name ever. (Unless you know the old joke about "Two Dogs *******"......
But how can we leave out Fess ("Daniel Boone") Parker sidekick Ed ("Mingo") Ames, and the classic tomahawk throw he executed on the Johnny Carson Show?
Ed Ames Teaches Johnny Carson to Throw a Tomahawk - YouTube
(If you remember this without looking it up, extra credit to you.)I like all three of the OP's choices best. And even if Iron Eyes Cody was really an Italian, he has the hands-down best Indian name ever. (Unless you know the old joke about "Two Dogs *******"......
But how can we leave out Fess ("Daniel Boone") Parker sidekick Ed ("Mingo") Ames, and the classic tomahawk throw he executed on the Johnny Carson Show?
Ed Ames Teaches Johnny Carson to Throw a Tomahawk - YouTube
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cmort666
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Elizabeth Warren.
COL Jagdog
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The wolf in Dances with Wolves
Straightshooter2
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Wes Studi, Jay Silverheels and Chief Dan George. Plus Graham Greene, as others have said, was just over the top in Maverick and plays such a good/bad guy now in Defiance.
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Delos
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Elvis?
Yes, when Marlon Brando sent the Indian girl to give a speech in his place it was heartwarming.
At one time we all lived in Clans, or Tribes or whatever word you choose for extended family groups of free hunter gatherers. Native Americans are a time capsule, past the ages when our ancestors belonged to kings and feudal Lords.
All over the world you find flint hand axes from what I call the “Flint Age”. There were even big flint mines in Europe.
Perhaps some of our distant ancestors wanted flint outlawed? No doubt people were getting cut accidentally or on purpose. But one way or the other all the non-flint people disappeared. Or were absorbed by the Flint People who could hunt bigger animals.
I once read that Bonanza was very popular in Japan because they recognized Lorne Greene as having Native American (Asian) characteristics. And he was the head of the family.
So maybe Lorne Greene is my favorite Native American Actor. Or maybe Elvis Presley?
Yes, when Marlon Brando sent the Indian girl to give a speech in his place it was heartwarming.
At one time we all lived in Clans, or Tribes or whatever word you choose for extended family groups of free hunter gatherers. Native Americans are a time capsule, past the ages when our ancestors belonged to kings and feudal Lords.
All over the world you find flint hand axes from what I call the “Flint Age”. There were even big flint mines in Europe.
Perhaps some of our distant ancestors wanted flint outlawed? No doubt people were getting cut accidentally or on purpose. But one way or the other all the non-flint people disappeared. Or were absorbed by the Flint People who could hunt bigger animals.
I once read that Bonanza was very popular in Japan because they recognized Lorne Greene as having Native American (Asian) characteristics. And he was the head of the family.
So maybe Lorne Greene is my favorite Native American Actor. Or maybe Elvis Presley?
Aticus
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I like Wes Studi but not for the roles mentioned, though he was good. I liked his role as Joe Leaphorn in the Leaphorn/Chee series. A very short series.
vigil617
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Yes, when Marlon Brando sent the Indian girl to give a speech in his place it was heartwarming. QUOTE]
Right you are, Delos. And not just any speech: the speech refusing his Oscar for "The Godfather." Brando refused to attend the ceremony for some kind of political reasons; I don't remember why. Maybe he was busy hanging out with that girl from Last Tango in Paris and still trying to find the butter.
What was the thread about again? Oh yeah...favorite Native American actors.
I really liked Will Sampson, a Creek who played the role of the Comanche chief Ten Bears in The Outlaw Josey Wales, though it was a small part. "There is iron in your words of death, and in your words of life. It shall be life."
Sampson was the same actor who played The Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
And yes, Delos, I did have to look that up.
shouldazagged
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Short series, but from what I saw of it quite good. Wish I'd seen more. I've only read one of Hillerman's books, but probably will add to the list.
My Italian wife likes that one.
