Chief Thundercloud

Born: 1899-04-12, Santa Cruz County, Arizona

Died: 1955-12-01

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

• Western Union (1941)
• Renegade Girl (1946)
• The Fighting Seabees (1944)
• North West Mounted Police (1940)
• Colt .45 (1950)
• Badman's Territory (1946)
• The Half-Breed (1952)
• Sonora Stagecoach (1944)
• A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)
• Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950)
• Santa Fe (1951)
• Saddle Aces (1935)
• Call of the Forest (1949)
• The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)
• Hi-Yo Silver (1940)
• Mrs. Mike (1949)
• Hudson's Bay (1940)
• The Iroquois Trail (1950)
• Custer's Last Stand (1936)
• I Killed Geronimo (1950)
• Overland Mail (1942)
• Young Buffalo Bill (1940)
• Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
• The Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937)
• The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)
• Pirates on Horseback (1941)
• Flaming Frontiers (1938)
• The Prairie (1947)
• Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952)
• The Phantom Rider (1946)