Chief Thundercloud
Born: 1899-04-12 in Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Died: 1955-12-01
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1952
- Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory as Black Hawk
- The Half-Breed as Apache (uncredited)
1951
- Santa Fe as Chief Longfeather
1950
- Ambush as Tana
- Colt .45 as Walking Bear
- A Ticket to Tomahawk
- The Iroquois Trail
- The Traveling Saleswoman as Running Deer
- Davy Crockett, Indian Scout as Sleeping Fox
- I Killed Geronimo as Geronimo
1949
- Mrs. Mike as Indian (uncredited)
- Call of the Forest as Stormcloud
1947
- The Prairie as Eagle Feather
- The Senator Was Indiscreet as Indian (as Chief Thunder Cloud)
1946
- Renegade Girl as Chief White Cloud
- Romance of the West as Chief Eagle Feather
- Badman's Territory as Chief Tahlequah
- The Phantom Rider as Chief Yellow Wolf
1944
- Sonora Stagecoach as Chief Thundercloud
- The Fighting Seabees as Indian Seabee (uncredited)
- Outlaw Trail as Thundercloud
1943
- Daredevils of the West as Indian Chief
- The Law Rides Again as Thundercloud
1942
- Lady in a Jam as Thundercloud (uncredited)
- Shut My Big Mouth as Indian Interpreter
- Overland Mail as Chief Many Moons
1941
- Western Union as Indian Leader
- Silver Stallion as Freshwater Jackson (as Chief 'Tonto' Thundercloud)
- Pirates on Horseback as Flying Cloud
1940
- Wyoming as Lightfoot
- Typhoon as Kehi
- Hudson's Bay as Orimha
- Murder on the Yukon as Henchman Manti
- Young Buffalo Bill as Akuna
- Hi-Yo Silver as Tonto
- North West Mounted Police as Wandering Spirit
1939
- Fighting Mad as Indian
- The Cat and the Canary as Indian Guide
- Geronimo as Geronimo
- Union Pacific as Indian (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Tonto
1938
- Flaming Frontiers as Thunder Cloud
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Chief Gray Eagle
- The Lone Ranger as Tonto
1937
- Renfrew of the Royal Mounted as Indian henchman
- The Riders of the Whistling Skull as High Priest
1936
- Ramona as Pablo
- Custer's Last Stand as Young Wolf
- For the Service as Indian Brave (uncredited)
- Silly Billies as Indian
- Ride, Ranger, Ride as Little Wolf
- Custer's Last Stand as Yellow Wolf
1935
- Wagon Trail as Henchman
- Cyclone of the Saddle as Yellow Wolf
- Saddle Aces as Canejo Rider Jose
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Chief Grey Wolf [Chs. 1, 5, 11]
- Rustler's Paradise as Henchman (as Thunder Cloud)