Jay Silverheels net worth is
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Jay Silverheels (May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a First Nations actor. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful Native American companion of the character, The Lone Ranger in a long-running American western television series.
| Full Name | Jay Silverheels |
| Net Worth | $700,000 |
| Date Of Birth | May 26, 1912 |
| Died | March 5, 1980, Calabasas, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Six Nations Reservation, Brantford, Ontario, Canada |
| Height | 1.83 m |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Profession | Actor |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Spouse | Mary Diroma, Bobbie Smith |
| Children | Jay Silverheels Jr. |
| Parents | A.G.E. Smith |
| Nicknames | Jay Silverheels, Silverheels, Jay |
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| Movies | The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, Broken Arrow, The Cowboy and the Indians, Walk the Proud Land, War Arrow, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, The Battle at Apache Pass, Santee, The Black Dakotas, One Little Indian, The Pathfinder, Four Guns to the Border, The Girl from Monterrey, Saskatchewan,... |
| TV Shows | The Lone Ranger |
| Star Sign | Gemini |
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| 1 | [re his lacrosse days] I was so scared, I was weak. I'd walk out on the floor shaking, thinking I can't do it, I can't, I can't. Then the whistle would blow, and I'd play in a fury. Happened every time. |
| 2 | [re his signature character] He's stupid. The Lone Ranger treats him like some kind of servant, and this seems to suit Tonto fine. |
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| 1 | While filming The Lone Ranger (1949) in 1955, he suffered a heart attack. He didn't appear on the show for eight weeks while he recuperated. Stuntman Chuck Courtney, as the Lone Ranger's nephew Dan Reid, replaced him until he was well enough to return;. |
| 2 | Reportedly beat out 35 other actors to win the Tonto role in the initial radio version of "The Lone Ranger", which he had been invited to audition for based on his appearance in Key Largo (1948). |
| 3 | Was said to have "despised" his show-business portrayal of an Indian. |
| 4 | Adopted the nickname 'Silverheels" during a very brief boxing career, which saw him compete as a middleweight in a Golden Gloves bout in New York City's Madison Square Garden. |
| 5 | Resided in Canoga Park, CA, and used to take walks around his neighborhood. Daughter attended and graduated from Canoga Park High School. |
| 6 | Of the nearly 200 TV and film appearances Silverheels made with Clayton Moore, the actors co-starred in just 4 features where they did NOT play Tonto and The Lone Ranger: Perils of Nyoka (1942), The Cowboy and the Indians (1949), Cyclone Fury (1951) and The Black Dakotas (1954). |
| 7 | Was a full-blooded Mohawk Indian, one of 11 children of A.G.E. Smith, who had served as a decorated officer in the Canadian forces in WWI. |
| 8 | Father of Jay Silverheels Jr. |
| 9 | Was an avid horse-racer when not acting. When asked if he ever thought about running Silver or Scout (who portrayed the steeds of the Lone Ranger and Tonto, respectively) in a race, Silverheels laughed: "Heck, *I* can beat Scout." |
| 10 | Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1993. |
| 11 | U.S. government records give Silverheels' birthdate as 26 June 1912, though virtually all cinema reference works disagree, giving instead the 1919 date listed here. |
| 12 | On The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), Silverheels told Johnny Carson that he had married his Italian wife to "get back at Christopher Columbus". They called their children "Indalions". |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The Lone Ranger | 1949-1957 | TV Series | Tonto |
| Walk the Proud Land | 1956 | | Geronimo |
| The Lone Ranger | 1956 | | Tonto |
| The Vanishing American | 1955 | | Beeteia |
| The Lone Ranger Rides Again | 1955 | TV Movie | Tonto |
| Masterson of Kansas | 1954 | | Yellow Hawk |
| Four Guns to the Border | 1954 | | Yaqui |
| The Black Dakotas | 1954 | | Black Buffalo |
| Drums Across the River | 1954 | | Taos |
| Saskatchewan | 1954 | | Cajou |
| War Arrow | 1953 | | Satanta |
| The Nebraskan | 1953 | | Spotted Bear |
| Jack McCall, Desperado | 1953 | | Red Cloud |
| Last of the Comanches | 1953 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| The Legend of the Lone Ranger | 1952 | | Tonto |
| The Pathfinder | 1952 | | Chingachgook |
| Yankee Buccaneer | 1952 | | Lead Warrior |
| The Story of Will Rogers | 1952 | | Joe Arrow (uncredited) |
| Brave Warrior | 1952 | | Tecumseh |
| The Half-Breed | 1952 | | Apache (uncredited) |
| The Battle at Apache Pass | 1952 | | Geronimo |
| The Wild Blue Yonder | 1951 | | Benders |
| Red Mountain | 1951 | | Little Crow |
| Broken Arrow | 1950 | | Geronimo (uncredited) |
| The Cowboy and the Indians | 1949 | | Lakoma |
| Sand | 1949 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| Trail of the Yukon | 1949 | | Poleon |
| Lust for Gold | 1949 | | Deputy Walter (uncredited) |
| Laramie | 1949 | | Running Wolf (uncredited) |
| Song of India | 1949 | | Villager (uncredited) |
| The Feathered Serpent | 1948 | | Diego (uncredited) |
| Family Honeymoon | 1948 | | Elevator Boy (uncredited) |
| Yellow Sky | 1948 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| Singin' Spurs | 1948 | | Abel |
| Key Largo | 1948 | | Tom Osceola (uncredited) |
| Fury at Furnace Creek | 1948 | | Little Dog (uncredited) |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | | Indian Guide at Pier (uncredited) |
| Captain from Castile | 1947 | | Coatl (uncredited) |
| The Prairie | 1947 | | Running Deer |
| The Last Round-up | 1947 | | Sam Luther (uncredited) |
| Unconquered | 1947 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| Northwest Outpost | 1947 | | Indian Scout (uncredited) |
| Gas House Kids Go West | 1947 | | Kingsley's Henchman (uncredited) |
| Singin' in the Corn | 1946 | | Indian Brave |
| Romance of the West | 1946 | | Young Bear (uncredited) |
| Song of the Sarong | 1945 | | Spearman (uncredited) |
| Tahiti Nights | 1944 | | Lua (uncredited) |
| I Am an American | 1944 | Short | Indian (uncredited) |
| Lost in a Harem | 1944 | | Guard at Execution (uncredited) |
| Haunted Harbor | 1944 | | Native [Chs. 11-12] (uncredited) |
| Call of the Jungle | 1944 | | Native (uncredited) |
| The Tiger Woman | 1944 | | Native at Shack Shoot-Out [Ch. 7] (uncredited) |
| Passage to Marseille | 1944 | | Sailor Crewman on Boat Deck (uncredited) |
| Raiders of the Border | 1944 | | Indian at Trading Post (uncredited) |
| The Phantom | 1943 | | Astari Warrior (uncredited) |
| Northern Pursuit | 1943 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| The Girl from Monterrey | 1943 | | Fighter Tito Flores (as Harry Smith) |
| Daredevils of the West | 1943 | | Kiaga [Ch. 8-9] (uncredited) |
| Good Morning, Judge | 1943 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| Perils of Nyoka | 1942 | | Tuareg (uncredited) |
| Valley of the Sun | 1942 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| This Woman Is Mine | 1941 | | Indian Marauder (uncredited) |
| Jungle Girl | 1941 | | Lion Man Guard [Chs. 2-3, 15] (uncredited) |
| Western Union | 1941 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| Hudson's Bay | 1941 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| Too Many Girls | 1940 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| Kit Carson | 1940 | | Indian (uncredited) |
| The Sea Hawk | 1940 | | Native Lookout (uncredited) |
| Make a Wish | 1937 | | Undetermined Role (uncredited) |
| Dusty's Trail | 1974 | TV Series | Indian Chief |
| A Different Drum | 1974 | Short | Jim Swift Hands |
| Cannon | 1973 | TV Series | Jimmy One Eye |
| Santee | 1973 | | John Crow |
| The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing | 1973 | | The Chief |
| One Little Indian | 1973 | | Jimmy Wolf |
| Love, American Style | 1972 | TV Series segment "Love and the Test of Manhood" - Love and the Bachelor Party/Love and the Latin Lover/Love and the Old-Fashioned Father/Love and the Test of Manhood 1972 ... segment "Love and the Test of Manhood" | |
| In Pursuit of Treasure | 1972 | | |
| Cade's County | 1971 | TV Series | Chief Wild Horse |
| The Brady Bunch | 1971 | TV Series | Chief Eagle Cloud |
| Cat Ballou | 1971/II | TV Movie | Indian Chief |
| The Psychiatrist | 1971 | TV Series | Medicine Man |
| The Virginian | 1968-1971 | TV Series | Spotted Hand / Den'Gwatzi |
| The Phynx | 1970 | | Tonto |
| True Grit | 1969 | | Condemned Man at Hanging (uncredited) |
| Smith! | 1969 | | McDonald Lasheway |
| Gentle Ben | 1967 | TV Series | Willie Sam Gopher |
| Pistols 'n' Petticoats | 1966-1967 | TV Series | Great Bear |
| The Rounders | 1966 | TV Series | John Tallgrass |
| Daniel Boone | 1964-1965 | TV Series | Sashona / Latawa / Chenrogan |
| Indian Paint | 1965 | | Chief Hevatanu |
| Branded | 1965 | TV Series | Wild Horse |
| Laramie | 1962 | TV Series | Toma |
| Rawhide | 1961 | TV Series | Pawnee Joe |
| Frontier Circus | 1961 | TV Series | Chief Red Cloud |
| Gunslinger | 1961 | TV Series | Hopi Indian |
| Wagon Train | 1961 | TV Series | The Serpent |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1960 | TV Series | Natchez |
| Rescue 8 | 1960 | TV Series | Charlie |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | 1959 | TV Series | Charley Red Cloud |
| Alias Jesse James | 1959 | | Tonto (uncredited) |
| The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold | 1958 | | Tonto |
| Return to Warbow | 1958 | | Indian Joe |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Wide Wide World | 1958 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Archive Footage
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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| 1990 | In Memoriam Award | Golden Boot Awards | | |
| 1979 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Television | At 6536 Hollywood Blvd. |
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