Silverheels appeared in the film sequels: The Lone Ranger (1956) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). Jay Silverheels achieved his greatest fame as Tonto on The Lone Ranger (1949–1957). One of his last roles was a wise, white-haired chief in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973).Ĭlayton Moore as the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto: Moore is riding Silver, while Silverheels is riding Scout. He played a substantial role as John Crow in Santee (1973), starring Glenn Ford. He made a brief appearance in True Grit (1969) as a condemned criminal about to be executed. From the late 1940s, he played in major films, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power (1947), Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart (1948), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford (1949), Broken Arrow (1950) with James Stewart, War Arrow (1953) with Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery Jr., The Black Dakotas (1954) as Black Buffalo, Drums Across the River (1954), Walk the Proud Land (1956) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James (1959) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint (1964) with Johnny Crawford. Jay Silverheels was cast in a short feature film, I Am an American (1944). He adopted his screen name from the nickname he had as a lacrosse player. He was billed variously as Harold Smith and Harry Smith, and appeared in low-budget features, Westerns, and serials. Silverheels began working in motion pictures as an extra and stuntman in 1937. Brown encouraged him to do a screen test, which led to his acting career. While playing in Los Angeles on a touring box lacrosse team in 1937, Silverheels impressed Joe E. Silverheels was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a veteran player in 1997. He lived for a time in Buffalo, New York, and in 1938, placed second in the middleweight class of the Golden Gloves tournament.
Along with his brothers and cousin, Russell (Beef), Sid (Porky), and George (Chubby), he also played on teams in Buffalo, Rochester, Atlantic City, and Akron throughout the 1930s on teams in the North American Amateur Lacrosse Association. In 1931, owners of National Hockey League's franchises in Toronto and Montreal created indoor lacrosse (also known as "box lacrosse") as a means to fill empty arenas during the summers, and playing as "Harry Smith", Silverheels was among the first players chosen to play for the Toronto Tecumsehs. Silverheels excelled in athletics, most notably in lacrosse, before leaving home to travel around North America. His father was wounded and decorated for service at the battles of Somme and Ypres during World War I, and later was an adjutant training Polish-American recruits for the Blue Army for service in France, at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Smith and Mary Wedge, and one of the 11 children of Captain Alexander George Edwin Smith, MC, Cayuga, and his wife Mabel Phoebe Dockstater, maternal Mohawk, and paternal Seneca. Silverheels was born Harold Jay Smith in Canada, on the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hagersville, Ontario.
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