Jay Silverheels
Actor

Jay Silverheels

Jay Silverheels is credited on 35 movies and 8 TV shows, best known by TMDB votes for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, True Grit and Key Largo.

Born May 26, 1912 in Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada; died March 5, 1980.

Filmography · 43 titles

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About Jay Silverheels

Jay Silverheels was born on a reservation in Canada to a Mohawk chief. 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 though the 1940s before he gained some notice as the Osceola brother in Humphrey Bogart's film Key Largo...

Biography from TMDB, written by its community.

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