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
- A Ticket to Tomahawk
- Colt .45 as Walking Bear
- Ambush as Tana
- Davy Crockett, Indian Scout as Sleeping Fox
- The Traveling Saleswoman as Running Deer
- I Killed Geronimo as Geronimo
- The Iroquois Trail as Ottawa Chief (uncredited)
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
- Lady in a Jam as Thundercloud (uncredited)
- Overland Mail as Chief Many Moons
- Shut My Big Mouth as Indian Interpreter
1941
- Western Union as Indian Leader
- Silver Stallion as Freshwater Jackson (as Chief 'Tonto' Thundercloud)
- Pirates on Horseback as Flying Cloud
1940
- North West Mounted Police as Wandering Spirit
- Hudson's Bay as Orimha
- Wyoming as Lightfoot
- Typhoon as Kehi
- Hi-Yo Silver as Tonto
- Young Buffalo Bill as Akuna
- Murder on the Yukon as Henchman Manti
1939
- Union Pacific as Indian (uncredited)
- The Cat and the Canary as Indian Guide
- Geronimo as Geronimo
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Tonto
- Fighting Mad as Indian
1938
- The Lone Ranger as Tonto
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Chief Gray Eagle
- Flaming Frontiers as Thunder Cloud
1937
- The Riders of the Whistling Skull as High Priest
- Renfrew of the Royal Mounted as Indian henchman
1936
- For the Service as Indian Brave (uncredited)
- Custer's Last Stand as Young Wolf
- Custer's Last Stand as Yellow Wolf
- Ramona as Pablo
- Ride, Ranger, Ride as Little Wolf
- Silly Billies as Indian
1935
- Saddle Aces as Canejo Rider Jose
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Chief Grey Wolf [Chs. 1, 5, 11]
- Wagon Trail as Henchman
- Rustler's Paradise as Henchman (as Thunder Cloud)
- Cyclone of the Saddle as Yellow Wolf