Chief Dan George Filmography

Born:: July 24, 1899 in North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Geswanouth Slahoot
Biography:: A full-blooded Tse-lal-Watt Sioux, Canadian-born Chief Dan George was a manual laborer until his late 40s. Sidelined by an injury, George spent a dozen years as chief of his tribe. He stepped down from this post to become an actor at age 61, appearing on the Canadian TV adventure series Caribou...Read More

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1998
Spirit of the Wind

Actors: Pius Savage, Chief Dan George, Slim Pickens, George Clutesi

Synopsis: Set in the rugged but beautiful Alaskan wilds, this fact-based outdoor adventure chronicles the struggles of a family to survive and for a young boy to overcome a physical disability to win a dog-sled race. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Americathon

Actors: Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, Fred Willard, Zane Buzby, Nancy Morgan

Synopsis: In the future (the distant year of 1997), the United States of America is in crisis. The oil shortage has grown to epic proportions, leading to people living in their cars and bicycling to work. Cigarettes and meat have been outlawed, gold coins are needed to operate common household appliances Read More

1979
Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

1978
The Outlaw Josey Wales

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's fifth film as a director and eighth Western as a star (ninth if you count Paint Your Wagon), The Outlaw Josey Wales chronicles the hero's violent journey westward after the Civil War. With fresh memoris of his family's slaughter by Red Leg soldier Terrill (Bill McKinney) Read More

1976
Shadow of the Hawk

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Marilyn Hassett, Chief Dan George, Pia Shandel, Marianne Jones

Synopsis: In this actioner, the Westernized grandson of a shaman decides to return to the wilderness to learn more about his Native American heritage. He ends up meeting some very powerful evil spirits and to escape them he must enlist the aid of his lover and a local chief to stop the spirits from taking Read More

1976
Cold Journey

Actors: Chief Dan George

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the travails of a man trapped between two cultures. He is a Canadian Indian who grew up in the white world. He fits into neither. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
The Bears and I

Actors: Patrick Wayne

Synopsis: Winston Hibler, who produced many of those Disney "True Life Adventures" of the 1950s, was at the controls of The Bears and I. Patrick Wayne plays Bob Leslie, a Vietnam veteran who heads to the Canadian Rockies when he's discharged. Here he adopts three bear cubs, whose mother has been killed. Read More

1974
Harry and Tonto

Actors: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: In Paul Mazursky's rueful character drama, 57-year-old Art Carney plays Harry, a 70-plus Manhattan widower who loses his tiny apartment to the wrecking ball. Accompanied by his pet, an aged cat named Tonto, Harry sets out on an odyssey to Los Angeles. During his journey, he finds a kindred spirit Read More

1974
Dan Candy's Law

Synopsis: When a Canadian Mountie is killed by an Indian, his partner tracks down the man to avenge the death. The film is also known as Alien Thunder. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
Cancel My Reservation

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Bob Hope

Synopsis: The title of this Bob Hope vehicle Cancel My Reservation is a multiple pun, referring to elements in the story. The ever-youthful Hope plays Dan Bartlett, a late-night TV talk show host. Frazzled, he takes a much-needed vacation in Arizona. There, he stumbles upon a murder and a conspiracy by Read More

1972
Bonanza: Warbonnet

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Chief Dan George, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Native American actor Chief Dan George, who had catapulted to stardom in the 1971 theatrical feature Little Big Man, appears in this Bonanza episode as Red Cloud, a dying Indian chieftan. Before being gathered to his fathers, Red Cloud wants to reclaim a precious warbonnet lost in battle, which Read More

1971
Little Big Man

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Chief Dan George

Synopsis: Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens Read More

1970
Smith!

Actors: Glenn Ford, Nancy Olson, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Warren Oates

Synopsis: One of the better Disney features of the late 1960s, Smith relies not upon humanized Volkswagens or singing bears but on the considerable talents of its cast. Glenn Ford stars as Smith, a tenacious modern-day rancher who comes to the aid of a fugitive Native American boy (Frank Ramirez). When a Read More

1969
Cariboo Country

1960