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John Big Tree is a Actor American born on 2 june 1877 at Michigan (USA)
Chief John Big Tree (June 2, 1877 – July 6, 1967), born Isaac Johnny John, was a member of the Seneca Nation and an actor who appeared in 59 films between 1915 and 1950.
Big Tree claimed to be one of three Native American chiefs whose profiles were composited to make the portrait featured on the obverse of the United States' Indian Head nickel, designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser. The other two chiefs were Iron Tail and Two Moons. Big Tree claimed that his profile was used to create that portion of the portrait from the top of the forehead to the upper lip.
Big Tree also claimed to be the sole model for Fraser's most recognized work, the doleful "End of the Trail". Both of these claims are broadly disputed, and Fraser identified other models.
He also appeared on the March 1964 cover of Esquire magazine, in a pose commemorating the Indian Head nickel.
He was born in Michigan and died in Onondaga Indian Reservation, New York. His interment was also there.
Mentionnons également Les Écumeurs du Sud de W. S. Van Dyke (1927, avec Tim McCoy), La Piste des géants de Raoul Walsh (son premier film parlant, 1930, toujours avec John Wayne), L'Odyssée des Mormons d'Henry Hathaway (1940, avec Tyrone Power), Les Pionniers de la Western Union de Fritz Lang (1941, avec Robert Young), ou encore La Porte du diable d'Anthony Mann (son dernier film, 1950, avec Robert Taylor).
Son visage a servi de modèle à une tête d'Indien gravée sur une pièce de cinq cents.
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John Big Tree
Birth name Isaac Johnny John
Nationality USA
Birth 2 june 1877 at Michigan (USA)
Death 6 july 1967 (at 90 years) at Onondaga Reservation (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 2 june 1877 at Michigan (USA)
Death 6 july 1967 (at 90 years) at Onondaga Reservation (USA)
Big Tree claimed to be one of three Native American chiefs whose profiles were composited to make the portrait featured on the obverse of the United States' Indian Head nickel, designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser. The other two chiefs were Iron Tail and Two Moons. Big Tree claimed that his profile was used to create that portion of the portrait from the top of the forehead to the upper lip.
Big Tree also claimed to be the sole model for Fraser's most recognized work, the doleful "End of the Trail". Both of these claims are broadly disputed, and Fraser identified other models.
He also appeared on the March 1964 cover of Esquire magazine, in a pose commemorating the Indian Head nickel.
He was born in Michigan and died in Onondaga Indian Reservation, New York. His interment was also there.
Biography
Au cinéma, Chef John Big Tree contribue à soixante-et-un films américains (majoritairement des westerns), entre 1915 et 1950, dont vingt films muets (jusqu'en 1929), souvent dans des petits rôles non crédités. En particulier, il apparaît dans cinq westerns de John Ford, À la frontière (réputé perdu, 1919, avec Harry Carey), Le Cheval de fer (1924, avec George O'Brien), Sur la piste des Mohawks (1939, avec Henry Fonda), La Chevauchée fantastique (1939, avec John Wayne), et enfin La Charge héroïque (son avant-dernier film, 1949, à nouveau avec John Wayne), où il tient le rôle — sans doute son plus connu — du vieux chef Poney qui marche.Mentionnons également Les Écumeurs du Sud de W. S. Van Dyke (1927, avec Tim McCoy), La Piste des géants de Raoul Walsh (son premier film parlant, 1930, toujours avec John Wayne), L'Odyssée des Mormons d'Henry Hathaway (1940, avec Tyrone Power), Les Pionniers de la Western Union de Fritz Lang (1941, avec Robert Young), ou encore La Porte du diable d'Anthony Mann (son dernier film, 1950, avec Robert Taylor).
Son visage a servi de modèle à une tête d'Indien gravée sur une pièce de cinq cents.
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Devil's Doorway (1950)
, 1h24Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, James Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Thundercloud
Rating71%
The Civil War may be over back East, but prejudice still rules the West. A full-blooded Shoshone Indian named Lance Poole distinguished himself in the war, winning the Congressional Medal of Honor, only to return home to Medicine Bow, Wyoming, to something a far cry from a hero's welcome.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
, 1h43Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr.
Roles Chief Pony That Walks
Rating71%
On the verge of his retirement at Fort Starke, a one-troop cavalry post, aging US Cavalry Captain Nathan Cutting Brittles (John Wayne) is given one last mission: to take his troop and deal with a breakout from the reservation by the Cheyenne and Arapaho following the defeat of George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Hudson's Bay (1941)
, 1h35Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, Vincent Price, John Sutton, Nigel Bruce
Roles Chief
Rating62%
A trapper, Pierre Esprit Radisson, and his friend, nicknamed "Gooseberry," hope to open a trading post in the Hudson's Bay region of northeastern Canada in the year 1667.
Western Union (1941)
, 1h35Directed by Otto Brower, Harry Joe Brown, Darryl F. Zanuck, Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Virginia Gilmore, Slim Summerville
Roles Chief Spotted Horse
Rating66%
While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Brigham Young (1940)
, 1h53Directed by Otto Brower, Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Roles Big Elk
Rating62%
The story begins in frontier-town Nauvoo, Illinois in 1844. It follows the main body of the Church as they are forced to leave Illinois, choosing to settle temporarily in Nebraska and then to travel by wagon train to the Great Basin. Much of the story's plot revolves around two of the group, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb.
North West Mounted Police (1940)
, 2h6Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, George Bancroft
Roles Blue Owl (uncredited)
Rating62%
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (Gary Cooper) is sent to Canada during the 1880s in pursuit of outlaw Jacques Corbeau (George Bancroft), arriving in the midst of the Riel Rebellion. Dusty meets nurse April Logan (Madeleine Carroll) and quickly falls in love with her. However, she is already involved with Canadian Mountie Sergeant Jim Britt (Preston Foster). Dusty and April have become involved with one another, which becomes evident to Jim, to whom April wishes to remain loyal.
Too Many Girls (1940)
, 1h25Directed by George Abbott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken, Frances Langford, Desi Arnaz
Roles Chief
Rating59%
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.
Stagecoach (1939)
, 1h37Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, Donald Meek
Roles Indian Scout (uncredited)
Rating77%
In 1880, a motley group of strangers boards the east-bound stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory. These travelers are unremarkable and ordinary at first glance. Among them are Dallas (Claire Trevor), a prostitute who is being driven out of town by the members of the "Law and Order League"; an alcoholic doctor, Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell); pregnant Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt), who is traveling to see her cavalry officer husband; and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock (Donald Meek).
Destry Rides Again (1939)
, 1h34Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer, Brian Donlevy, Charles Winninger, Una Merkel
Roles Indian in Saloon (uncredited)
Rating75%
Saloon owner Kent (Brian Donlevy), the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's Sheriff, Keogh, killed when the Sheriff asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game. Kent and "Frenchy" (Marlene Dietrich), his girlfriend and the dance hall queen, now have a stranglehold over the local cattle ranchers. The crooked town's mayor, Hiram J. Slade (Samuel S. Hinds), who is in collusion with Kent, appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale (Charles Winninger), as the new sheriff, assuming that he'll be easy to control and manipulate. But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under the famous lawman, Tom Destry and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry, Jr. (James Stewart) to help him make Bottleneck a lawful, respectable town.
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
, 1h44Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, John Carradine, Eddie Collins, Ward Bond
Roles Blue Back
Rating69%
In colonial America, Lana Borst (Claudette Colbert), the eldest daughter of a wealthy Albany, New York family, marries Gilbert Martin (Henry Fonda). Together they leave her family's luxurious home to embark on a frontier life on Gil's small farm in Deerfield, in the Mohawk Valley of central New York. The time is July, 1776, and the spirit of revolution is in the air. The valley's settlers have formed a local militia in anticipation of an imminent war, and Gil joins up.
The Oregon Trail (1939)
Directed by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors John Mack Brown, Louise Stanley, Fuzzy Knight, Edward LeSaint, Charles Stevens, Charles King
Roles Spotted Elk
Rating60%
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
, 1h18Directed by Walter Lang, William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, Victor Jory, Lester Matthews, J. Farrell MacDonald
Roles Chief (uncredited)
Rating63%
As the Canadian Pacific Railway makes its way through the western frontier of Canada in the early 1880s, railroad workers and settlers come under frequent attack by Indians who resent the white man's encroachment on their land. One such attack on a wagon train leaves only one survivor of the Indian massacre, a young girl named Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) who is found by a mounted patrol in the command of Inspector Angus "Monty" Montague. The young girl is taken back to the post where she is adopted by Monty (Randolph Scott) and his friend, Pat O'Hannegan (J. Farrell MacDonald). The two men do their best to help the girl overcome her terrible ordeal.
The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
, 2h1Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Buddy Ebsen, Priscilla Lawson
Roles Indian Chief in Prologue
Rating62%
Maid of Salem (1937)
, 1h25Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard, Louise Dresser, Benny Bartlett
Roles Indian Man (Uncredited)
Rating64%
It tells the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, who has an affair with an adventurer. She is sentenced as a witch, but saved by him.
Lost Horizon (1937)
, 2h12Directed by Frank Capra, Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about Tibet, Political films
Actors Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Sam Jaffe, John Howard, H. B. Warner, Edward Everett Horton
Roles Porter (uncredited)
Rating75%
Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier and diplomat Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) has one last task in 1935 China: to rescue 90 Westerners in the city of Baskul. He flies out with the last few evacuees, just ahead of armed revolutionaries.