Chief Dan George

Chief Dan George was born on Jul 24, 1899 in Canada. Chief Dan George's big-screen debut came with Smith! directed by Michael O'Herlihy in 1969, strarring Ol' Antoine. Chief Dan George is known for Indian Horse directed by Stephen S. Campanelli, Ajuawak Kapashesit stars as Adult Saul (22 Yrs.) and Wayne Baker as Saul (Narrator). Chief Dan George has got 2 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Chief Dan George achieved is Laurel Awards. The upcoming new movie Chief Dan George plays is Indian Horse which will be released on Apr 13, 2018.

Actor, author, and musician Chief Dan George was born in present-day North Vancouver as Geswanouth Slahoot (later anglicized as 'Dan Slaholt'), the son of a tribal chief on Burrard Indian Reserve Nº. 3. He is the only Aboriginal actor in Canadian history to date with the right to use the title "Chief", serving as leader of the Squamish First Nation of Burrard Inlet from 1951-63, and retained the honorary title after his term ended. His last name was changed to George when at age 5 he entered a mission boarding school where the use of his native language was discouraged, if not forbidden.Until 1959, he had worked as a longshoreman, logger, bus driver, and itinerant musician. After spending much of his early life as a longshoreman, a construction worker, and a school-bus driver, Chief Dan George auditioned for the role of Ol' Antoine on Cariboo Country (1960), a CBC series, and won the part. He made his screen debut at age 65. On the strength of his performance in the series, and after playing the same part in Smith! (1969), a Disney adaptation of one of the show's episodes based on "Breaking Smith's Quarterhorse", a novella by Paul St. Pierre, and starring Glenn Ford, he was asked to play "Old Lodge Skins" in Little Big Man (1970). This role led to an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1970. He continued to appear in films and became an accomplished stage actor. He died in 1981 on the same Indian reserve where he was born in North Vancouver at age 82.