Biography
Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor who portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, including the role of Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about pollution in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements from the group Keep America Beautiful. Living in Hollywood, he began to insist, even in his private life, that he was Native American, over time claiming membership in several different tribes. In 1996, Cody's half-sister said that he was of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. After his death, it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage and not Native American at all.
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Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography50+ titles
Overland Mail
Don Winslow of the Navy
Apache Country
Custer's Last Stand
Ace in the Hole
Stagecoach
The A-Team
Bonanza
Crashing Thru
The Lone Ranger
Young Eagles
The Last Round-up
Rawhide
Maverick
The Cowboy and the Indians
King of the Texas Rangers
Winners of the West
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Here's Lucy
Nevada Smith
Gunsmoke
Red Mountain
Broken Arrow
Union Pacific
The Iroquois Trail
Bowery Buckaroos
The Virginian
Fort Defiance
Unconquered
Arizona
Fighting With Kit Carson
A Man Called Horse
Colorado
Arrow in the Dust
The Cowboy and the Lady
Cheyenne
The Cisco Kid
Blood on the Moon
Valley of the Sun
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Wild Girl
The Paleface
Kit Carson
Rose-Marie
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Alias Jesse James
Gun for a Coward
Can't Help Singing
Western Union