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Jimmy Herman is a Actor born on 25 october 1940
Jimmy Herman (October 25, 1940 - September 13, 2013) was a First Nations actor who appeared in several films, including Dances with Wolves among others.
He was born on the Cold Lake Reserve in Alberta, Canada. His tribal descent was Dene. Herman moved to Edmonton in 1980 to study at Grant MacEwan College's Native Communications Program. There, he received the Malcolm Calliou Award for his ambition to succeed, and to inspire other Aboriginal people to do the same. After his graduation from Grant MacEwan, he accepted employment with Native Counseling Services of Alberta as a media assistant in the media department. During this time, he did some narration work for Native Counseling Services, ACCESS radio, and the National Film Board.
A small part in a CBC Television pilot program called John Cat, based on a W. P. Kinsella book, sparked Herman’s interest in acting, and he decided to leave his position at Native Counseling Services to pursue a career in the performing arts. In April 1989, he got his big break when a Los Angeles casting agent chose him for a part in Dances With Wolves. His minor role in the movie, playing a Sioux warrior named Stone Calf, was a boost for his career, and he did not look back.
He went on to perform numerous roles in feature films and television series in Canada and the United States, including an extra in the Academy Award winning western, Unforgiven, The X-Files and a ten-year stint on CBC's North of 60, portraying fur trapper Joe Gomba. In 2005, the Dreamspeakers Film Festival Society in Edmonton honoured him with a place on the Aboriginal Walk of Fame.
Passionate about his art and the opportunity to be a positive role model in the Aboriginal community, Herman spoke frequently to Aboriginal youth in schools and at special events, encouraging them to take pride in who they are. He also turned towards political activism, seeking diplomatic solutions and bringing his voice to the debate surrounding Aboriginal treaty rights. Keenly aware that his fame could help draw attention to certain political causes, Herman used his own good fortune as a tool to better Treaty 6 communities.
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He was born on the Cold Lake Reserve in Alberta, Canada. His tribal descent was Dene. Herman moved to Edmonton in 1980 to study at Grant MacEwan College's Native Communications Program. There, he received the Malcolm Calliou Award for his ambition to succeed, and to inspire other Aboriginal people to do the same. After his graduation from Grant MacEwan, he accepted employment with Native Counseling Services of Alberta as a media assistant in the media department. During this time, he did some narration work for Native Counseling Services, ACCESS radio, and the National Film Board.
A small part in a CBC Television pilot program called John Cat, based on a W. P. Kinsella book, sparked Herman’s interest in acting, and he decided to leave his position at Native Counseling Services to pursue a career in the performing arts. In April 1989, he got his big break when a Los Angeles casting agent chose him for a part in Dances With Wolves. His minor role in the movie, playing a Sioux warrior named Stone Calf, was a boost for his career, and he did not look back.
He went on to perform numerous roles in feature films and television series in Canada and the United States, including an extra in the Academy Award winning western, Unforgiven, The X-Files and a ten-year stint on CBC's North of 60, portraying fur trapper Joe Gomba. In 2005, the Dreamspeakers Film Festival Society in Edmonton honoured him with a place on the Aboriginal Walk of Fame.
Passionate about his art and the opportunity to be a positive role model in the Aboriginal community, Herman spoke frequently to Aboriginal youth in schools and at special events, encouraging them to take pride in who they are. He also turned towards political activism, seeking diplomatic solutions and bringing his voice to the debate surrounding Aboriginal treaty rights. Keenly aware that his fame could help draw attention to certain political causes, Herman used his own good fortune as a tool to better Treaty 6 communities.
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, 2h12Directed by Yves Simoneau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin, Colm Feore, Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse
Roles Yellow Bird
Rating70%
The plot, which is based on events covered by several chapters of Brown's book as well as other sources, revolves around four main characters: Charles Eastman né Ohiyesa (Beach), a young, mixed-race Sioux doctor educated at Dartmouth and Boston University, who is held up as proof of the success of assimilation; Sitting Bull (Schellenberg), the Sioux chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land, the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; U.S. Senator Henry L. Dawes (Quinn), an architect of government policy for allotment of Indian lands to individual households to force adoption of subsistence farming; and Red Cloud (Tootoosis), whose decision to make peace with the American government and go to a reservation disturbed Sitting Bull.
Hank Williams First Nation (2005)
, 1h32Directed by Aaron James Sorensen
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Gordon Tootoosis, Jimmy Herman
Rating62%
The film follows the story of a seventy-five-year-old Cree tribesman named Martin Fox who has been reading too many tabloids and learning that Elvis and Lady Di are still alive. From this he begins to wonder if his hero Hank Williams, Sr. is not still alive as well. Before he dies he commits to making a Greyhound trip to Nashville to find out more about the country music legend.
Dreamkeeper (2003)
, 2h54Directed by Steve Barron
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Eddie Spears, August Schellenberg, George Aguilar, Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, Nathaniel Arcand, Gil Birmingham
Roles Multnomah Elder
Rating74%
The film opens with Eagle Boy, a young man who is on a vision quest. It then cuts to the present, where a 17-year-old Lakota named Shane Chasing Horse is living on the Pine Ridge reservation. He is in trouble because he owes some money to a local gang—money he used to buy a beautiful ring for Mae Little Wounded, a girl he likes. Meanwhile, his mother asks him to drive his grandfather, Pete Chasing Horse, a storyteller, down to the powwow. Shane is reluctant. However, when the gang comes after him, Shane changes his mind and heads out to the powwow with his grandfather, who agrees to give him his truck once they reach the powwow. Grandfather tells Shane the story of a young Lakota man who tries to win the hand of Bluebird Woman. He also tells the story of how a thunder spirit falls in love with a Mohawk woman and brings her up into the ethereal world of Sky Woman, and of how she raised their son back in her village until he was struck by one of the villagers and brought back to live with his father.
Reindeer Games (2000)
, 1h44Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Christmas films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, James Frain, Danny Trejo, Clarence Williams III
Roles Bartender
Rating57%
Nick Cassidy and Rudy Duncan are cellmates in prison two days away from release. Nick has been corresponding with a young woman named Ashley Mercer, who is waiting for him on the outside. After Nick takes a shiv in a prison fight and dies, Rudy, who just wants to have a cup of hot chocolate after he reunites with his family, takes his place and lets the beautiful Ashley think he is the one who has been writing her. Gabriel, the leader of a gang who assaults Rudy and Ashley in their cabin, and is Ashley's brother and tells "Nick" that the gang, with Nick's help, will rob the casino he used to work at. Rudy reveals he is not Nick, but Ashley continues to confirm he is and that she wrote to him knowing Gabriel was going to kidnap and force Rudy to assist in the robbery. Rudy, while furious with Ashley, is reluctantly forced to go along with his ruse.
Grey Owl (1999)
, 1h57Directed by Richard Attenborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Environmental films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Vlasta Vrána, Jimmy Herman, David Fox, Serge Houde, Stephanie Cole
Roles Chief Pete Misebi
Rating59%
Archibald Belaney (Brosnan) was a British man who grew up fascinated with Native American culture—so much so that in the early 1900s he left the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for Canada, where he reinvented himself as Archie Grey Owl and lived in the wild as a North American Indian trapper. Eventually, Belaney becomes an environmentalist after renouncing trapping and hunting.
Phantom Town (1999)
, 1h35Directed by Jeff Burr
Genres Horror, Western
Actors Jim Metzler, Belinda Montgomery, Jimmy Herman, Jeff Burr
Roles Attendant
Rating47%
Three children go on a search to find their parents who mysteriously disappeared after entering a town called Long Hand that isn't found on any map. The children check in at the town's hotel and begin to notice that the residents of Long Hand behave strangely, repeating the same actions over and over. Further exploration of the town leads the children to discover that the town is inhabited by body snatchers, and they could be the next victims. The children eventually find their parents in catacombs located underneath the town, and manage to leave the town with their parents after killing the monster that runs the town. In the end, Mike throws a party and the children discover that their parents had been transformed just like the other residents of Long Hand.
Gunslinger's Revenge (1998)
, 1h35Directed by Giovanni Veronesi
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, Sandrine Holt, Alessia Marcuzzi, Michelle Gomez
Roles Indian grandfather
Rating44%
The story begins in 1860 in Basin Field, a small (fictional) village on the slopes of the great mountains that border Canada in the "Far West." The film depicts the idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife and half-breed son, who narrates the tale. The main character is "Doc" (Pieraccioni), the village doctor, his Indian wife Pearl (Holt) and their son Jeremiah. Their idyllic life is disrupted when his grandfather, an old gunslinger, shows up on the farm. Doc's father Johnny Lowen (Keitel), a famous gunfighter, suddenly returns. Johnny says he has returned home to find rest and to finally retire. The family is not happy with his return, given his past lifestyle and mistreatment of his family.
Crazy Horse (1996)
Directed by John Irvin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Western
Actors Michael Greyeyes, Ned Beatty, John Finn, Irene Bedard, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi
Roles Conquering Bear
Rating63%
Le légendaire chef amérindien refuse de se rendre paisiblement avec son peuple dans la réserve et déclenche une rébellion.
Blind Justice (1994)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Western
Actors Armand Assante, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Davi, Danny Nucci, Adam Baldwin, Ian McElhinney
Roles Shaman
Rating56%
Canaan, a mysterious gunfighter left nearly blind from Civil War combat, roams through Mexico with a baby he has sworn to protect. On his way to a town where a family will supposedly adopt the baby, Canaan passes through a border town where U.S. Cavalry officers assigned to deliver a shipment of silver are under attack from bandits. With some reluctance, Canaan steps in to help the soldiers.
Geronimo (1993)
, 1h40Directed by Walter Hill, Roger Young
Origin USA
Genres War, Western
Actors Nick Ramus, Michael Greyeyes, August Schellenberg, Jimmy Herman, Eddie Spears, Geno Silva
Roles Old Geronimo
Rating63%
This script must be run from the command line
Dances with Wolves (1990)
, 3h1Directed by Kevin Costner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Political films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney Arnold Grant, Maury Chaykin, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Roles Stone Calf
Rating79%
In 1863, First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar is wounded in the American Civil War. Choosing suicide over having his foot amputated, he takes a horse and rides up to and along the Confederate front lines, distracting them in the process. Despite numerous pot shots, the Confederates fail to shoot him off his mount. Whilst they are distracted, the Union army attacks the line, and the battle ends in a Confederate rout. Dunbar survives, and is allowed to recover properly, receives a citation for bravery, and is awarded Cisco, the horse who carried him, as well as his choice of posting. Dunbar requests a transfer to the western frontier so he can see it before it disappears. Dunbar is initially posted at Ft. Hays, a large fort presided over by a mentally ill and suicidal major who despises Dunbar's enthusiasm. Dunbar requests that the major transfer him to a real frontier fort. Just before he takes his life, The major sends him to an abandoned fort, Fort Sedgewick, with Timmons, a mule wagon provisioner. Dunbar finds the fort deserted and in need of repair. Despite the threat of nearby Indian tribes, he elects to stay and man the post himself. He begins rebuilding and restocking the fort and prefers the solitude afforded him, recording many of his observations in his diary.