Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1899-07-24
Place of Birth
British Columbia, Canada
Chief Dan George
Biography
Chief Dan George OC (July 24, 1899 – September 23, 1981) was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band whose Indian reserve is located on Burrard Inlet in the southeast area of the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was also an actor, musician, poet and author; his best-known written work was "My Heart Soars". As an actor, he is best remembered for portraying Old Lodge Skins opposite Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Known For
as Old Lodge Skins
as Lone Watie
as Red Cloud
as Self - Guest
as Sam Birdwater
as Chief Peter A-Tas-Ka-Nay
as Lone Wolf
as Sam Two Feathers
as Ol' Antoine
as Chief Morales
as Old Man Hawk
as The Big Chief
as Sounding Sky
as Himself
as Moses
as Oscar
as Grandfather
as Self (archive footage)
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