Chief Thundercloud
Acting
Biography
Victor Daniels (April 12, 1899 – December 1, 1955), known professionally as Chief Thundercloud, was an American character actor in Westerns. He is noted for being the first actor to play the role of Tonto, the Lone Ranger's Native-American companion, on the screen.
Born: April 12, 1899
Place of Birth: Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Known For
Shut My Big Mouth
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Silly Billies
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
Rustlers of Red Dog
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.
The Cat and the Canary
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
Santa Fe
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
North West Mounted Police
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Colt .45
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
The Fighting Seabees
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
Western Union
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
Filmography
as Apache (uncredited)
as Black Hawk
as Chief Longfeather
as Geronimo
as Walking Bear
as Running Deer
as Tana
as Sleeping Fox
as Indian (uncredited)
as Stormcloud
as Indian (as Chief Thunder Cloud)
as Eagle Feather
as Chief White Cloud
as Chief Tahlequah
as Chief Eagle Feather
as Chief Yellow Wolf
as Chief Thundercloud
as Thundercloud
as Indian Seabee (uncredited)
as Thundercloud
as Indian Chief
as Chief Many Moons
as Thundercloud (uncredited)
as Indian Interpreter
as Freshwater Jackson (as Chief 'Tonto' Thundercloud)
as Flying Cloud
as Indian Leader
as Orimha
as Wandering Spirit
as Lightfoot
as Kehi
as Akuna
as Tonto
as Henchman Manti
as Geronimo
as Indian
as Indian Guide
as Indian (uncredited)
as Tonto
as Thunder Cloud
as Chief Gray Eagle
as Tonto
as Indian henchman
as High Priest
as Little Wolf
as Pablo
as Indian Brave (uncredited)
as Yellow Wolf
as Indian
as Young Wolf
as Canejo Rider Jose
as Henchman (as Thunder Cloud)
as Henchman
as Yellow Wolf
as Chief Grey Wolf [Chs. 1, 5, 11]