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
- I Killed Geronimo as Geronimo
- Colt .45 as Walking Bear
- A Ticket to Tomahawk
- Davy Crockett, Indian Scout as Sleeping Fox
- Ambush as Tana
- The Traveling Saleswoman as Running Deer
- 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
- Renegade Girl as Chief White Cloud
- Badman's Territory as Chief Tahlequah
- The Phantom Rider as Chief Yellow Wolf
- Romance of the West as Chief Eagle Feather
1944
- Sonora Stagecoach as Chief Thundercloud
- The Fighting Seabees as Indian Seabee (uncredited)
- Outlaw Trail as Thundercloud
1943
- The Law Rides Again as Thundercloud
- Daredevils of the West as Indian Chief
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
- Silver Stallion as Freshwater Jackson (as Chief 'Tonto' Thundercloud)
- Pirates on Horseback as Flying Cloud
1940
- North West Mounted Police as Wandering Spirit
- Young Buffalo Bill as Akuna
- Hudson's Bay as Orimha
- Hi-Yo Silver as Tonto
- Wyoming as Lightfoot
- Typhoon as Kehi
- Murder on the Yukon as Henchman Manti
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 Lone Ranger as Tonto
- Flaming Frontiers as Thunder Cloud
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Chief Gray Eagle
1937
- Renfrew of the Royal Mounted as Indian henchman
- The Riders of the Whistling Skull as High Priest
1936
- Custer's Last Stand as Yellow Wolf
- Ramona as Pablo
- Custer's Last Stand as Young Wolf
- Silly Billies as Indian
- For the Service as Indian Brave (uncredited)
- Ride, Ranger, Ride as Little Wolf
1935
- Saddle Aces as Canejo Rider Jose
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Chief Grey Wolf [Chs. 1, 5, 11]
- Cyclone of the Saddle as Yellow Wolf
- Rustler's Paradise as Henchman (as Thunder Cloud)
- Wagon Trail as Henchman