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