Chief John Big Tree

Chief John Big Tree

Nacimiento : 1877-06-02, Buffalo - New York - USA

Muerte : 1967-07-06

Historia

Chief John Big Tree was born on June 2, 1877 in Buffalo, New York, as Isaac Johnny John. He was an actor, known for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and Devil's Doorway (1950). He died on July 6, 1967 in Onondaga Indian Reservation, New York. One of three men who posed for artist James Fraser for the profile which became the famous "Indian head nickel" or "buffalo nickel" minted 1913-1938. The other two were Chief Two Moons (of the Cheyenne) and Chief Iron Tail (of the Lakota Sioux). The image was reused for a special commemorative $50 gold piece in 2006--the USA's first 24k (pure gold) coin. Big Tree was a member of the Seneca Nation.

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Chief John Big Tree

Películas

La puerta del diablo
Thundercloud
Un indio, tras haber participado en la guerra de Secesión en el bando nordista, vuelve con su tribu y se encuentra un panorama desolador: su pueblo vive en la miseria y está a punto de perder sus tierras. Así, pues, tendrá que seguir luchando, en este caso contra las injusticias a las que su pueblo se ve sometido.
La legión invencible
Chief Pony That Walks
Las tribus indias planean unirse para una guerra total contra los blancos. Brittles, un veterano capitán de caballería, recibe la orden de evitar las concentraciones de indios, al tiempo que debe escoltar a la esposa y a la sobrina de su comandante. Además, ha de impedir que un traficante venda una partida de armas a los indios. Esta triple misión será la última del capitán antes de su jubilación.
Espíritu de conquista
Chief Spotted Horse
Edward Creighton, ingeniero de la compañía telegráfica Western Union, se encarga de dirigir la instalación de una línea a través de los territorios del Oeste. Ayudado por su hermana Sue, recluta a los trabajadores en los pueblos más cercanos. Pero, como la región es peligrosa y está infestada de indios, la empresa tiene que ofrecer sueldos elevados para contratar al personal.
Hudson's Bay
Chief
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.
Policía montada del Canadá
Blue Owl (uncredited)
En 1885, tres aventureros de la frontera (el maestro Riel, el traficante de whisky Corbeau y el trampero Duroc) fomentan en Canadá una rebelión contra la Corona. Sólo la Policía Montada permanece leal. El policía Ronnie Logan está enamorado de la hija de Corbeau, pero tiene que rivalizar con un ránger de Texas que busca a Corbeau por asesinato
Too Many Girls
Chief
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
El hombre de la frontera
Big Elk
La verdadera historia del famoso líder mormón Brigham Young y su batalla para el transporte de su pueblo a través de las montañas Rocosas a establecerse en Salt Lake City. La trama se centra en dos personajes, Jonathan Kent y Zina Webb y las dificultades que tienen que enfrentar en el camino.
Arizona
Indian in Saloon (uncredited)
Tom Destry, hijo de un legendario pacificador de la frontera, es un joven pacífico que rechaza todo tipo de violencia, por lo que es objeto de toda clase de burlas cuando recorre a caballo la ciudad de Bottleneck, el feudo personal de Kent. Las burlas aumentan cuando Destry nombra sheriff al borracho Wash Dimsdale. Esta actitud cambia cuando resulta que Destry, a pesar de odiar las armas, es un buen tirador. Mientras tanto, Frenchy, la cantante del saloon y novia de Kent, que se siente ofendida ante la indiferencia que Destry muestra hacia ella, jura poner en ridículo al nuevo sheriff.
Corazones indomables
Blue Back
Albany, Nueva York, 1776. Después de casarse, Gil y Lana viajan al norte para instalarse en una pequeña granja en el valle del río Mohawk; pero pronto su creciente prosperidad y felicidad se ven amenazadas por el siniestro sonido de los tambores que anuncian oscuros tiempos de revolución y guerra.
El camino de Oregón
Spotted Elk
Jeff Scott es enviado a investigar los problemas con los vagones que intentan hacer el viaje a Oregón. Sam Morgan ha enviado a sus secuaces, bajo el mando del secuaz principal Bull Bragg, a detener las caravanas para mantener el control del comercio de pieles en la zona.
Susannah of the Mounties
Chief (uncredited)
Adaptación de una novela de Muriel Denison en la cual una niña, superviviente de una masacre india, acaba siendo la mascota de un regimiento de la Policía Montada de Canadá.
La diligencia
Indian Scout (uncredited)
Personajes muy variopintos emprenden un largo, duro y peligroso viaje en diligencia. Entre ellos, un fuera de la ley en busca de venganza, una prostituta a la que han echado del pueblo, un jugador, un médico, la mujer embarazada de un militar y un sheriff. Las relaciones entre ellos serán difíciles y tensas. Además, durante el viaje, tendrán que afrontar el ataque de una partida de indios apaches.
The Girl of the Golden West
Indian Chief in Prologue
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee - making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. On the way to Monterey to sing at a mass officiated by Father Sienna, her stagecoach is held up by the infamous masked bandit, Ramerez. He too takes a fancy to Mary, and decides to secretly follow her, taking on the identity of an officer named, Lieutenant Johnson. While in Monterey, he dances, sings and courts Mary, who has now fallen in love with him. He then has to make a quick getaway. In the mean-time, Sheriff Jack has set up a trap to catch Ramerez at "The Poker". When Ramerez does arrive he soon discovers that Mary is the owner, and quickly changes to the identity of Lieutenant Johnson. How long can this charade last?
Prairie Thunder
Indian (uncredited)
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
Hills of Old Wyoming
Chief Big Tree
An evil deputy is using Indian half-breeds to rustle cattle. This causes trouble between the cattlemen and Indians. Hoppy, Windy and Lucky see that justice is served. Songs abound.
Maid of Salem
Indian Man (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
The Bold Caballero
Tavern Indian (uncredited)
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Indian John
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
Custer's Last Stand
Medicine Man
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
The Singing Vagabond
Chief White Eagle (uncredited)
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
Wheels of Destiny
Chief War Eagle
Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map. When Rocky and his men attack, Ken Manning breaks it up and later identifies Rocky and his men as the attackers. Expelled from the wagon train, they stampede a buffalo herd puting the Indians on the warpath. After the Indians attack the wagon train, Rocky thinks he can get the map.
King of the Arena
Circus Indian
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
The Telegraph Trail
Indian Chief (uncredited)
A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.
The Golden West
Indian (uncredited)
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
The Last of the Mohicans
Huron Warrior (uncredited)
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights battles against nefarious white soldiers as well as the vicious Indian Magua and his cohorts.
Red Fork Range
Chief Barking Fox
It's time for the stagecoach race to win the mail contract and the only entries are Reden and Farrell. Reden's men kidnap Farrell's daughter and then force him to withdraw. Wally rescues Ruth, buys out Farrel, and enters the race himself. But Reden has his men planted along the course to make sure Wally doesn't win.
The Overland Telegraph
Medecine Man
At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen. In response, Major Hammond, who oversees the troops, requests that President Abraham Lincoln send twenty thousand more soldiers to come to his aid. Lincoln grants Hammond's request, and sends along Capt. Allen, who is knowledgeable about Indians. At his new post, Allen discovers that a Confederate spy has been fomenting trouble with the Indians. Allen eventually uncovers the spy, makes peace with the Indians and wins the love of Dorothy, a young woman who lives at the post.
Spoilers of the West
Red Cloud
A soldier falls in love with a beautiful settler who has refused his order to leave American Indian land.
Painted Ponies
A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.
The Frontiersman
Grey Eagle
John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.
Por la razón y la fuerza
Chief Pontiac
El coronel O'Hara, un hábil luchador en la naturaleza, ama a Rene, hija del comandante de las fuerzas francesas durante la guerra entre Francia y la India. Los indios, bajo Pontiac, secuestran a René. O'Hara espera rescatarla y casarse con ella.
The Desert's Toll
Red Eagle
Frank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn't kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta.
Flor de capricho
Indian (uncredited)
Joe vive en un enclave perdido entre montañas y piensa que ya es hora de buscar pareja. Se va a la ciudad y conoce a Alverna, una desinhibida manicurista, con quien se casa. Al mismo tiempo, Ralph, un abogado especializado en divorcios, agobiado por la presión de las mujeres que acuden a él en busca de ayuda, decide pasar una temporada de descanso en Mantrap, donde se encuentra con Joe y Alverna...
The Frontier Trail
Chief Gray Wolf
A 1926 silent Western.
The Red Rider
Indian Chief
White Elk, a light-skinned Indian chief, incurs the enmity of Chief Black Panther, whom he prevents from looting a westbound wagon train. Although White Elk is betrothed to an Indian princess, he falls in love with Lucille Cavanagh, a white woman from the East. After her father, John Cavanagh, tricks White Elk into signing away the lands of his tribe, the young chief is condemned to be burned alive by Black Panther.
El caballo de hierro
Cheyenne Chief
Considerada la mejor película de la época muda de John Ford, un western alrededor del ferrocarril y el espíritu pionero de los Estados Unidos de América. El presidente Lincoln ha autorizado la construcción de un enlace entre las líneas ferroviarias de la Union Pacific y la Central Pacific. Un contratista (Will Walling) y un topógrafo (George O´Brien) emprenden viaje con el objetivo de trazar la ruta idónea, pero, aunque logran localizar un paso montañoso que permitiría el establecimiento de una conexión mucho más rápida de lo que se había esperado, el riesgo de que los nativos ataquen a los trabajadores amenaza con dar al traste con el ambicioso proyecto.
The Huntress
Otebaya
Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to avoid marrying a brave from the tribe. She determines to marry land prospector Sam Gladding, who resists her advances but later falls in love with Bela when an Indian sage gives him some advice.
The Primitive Lover
Chief Johnny Bluebottle
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
A Fight for Love
Swift Deer
Los Montados del Noroeste persiguen a Cheyenne Harry por el asesinato de un niño indio, y el único testigo del crimen es un sacerdote, que no puede decir lo que vio porque el verdadero asesino, Black Michael, se lo confesó.
The Spirit of '76
Gowah
Catherine Montour, a striking half-breed Indian princess, and mistress of King George III aspires to become the first Queen of America when the revolution breaks out.