Chief Thundercloud

Actor Apr 12 (died age 56) Santa Cruz County, Arizona 1935–1952 (17 year career)

5.3 avg rating

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.

Known For

Film

The Cat and the Canary

Indian Guide

Film

Union Pacific

Indian (uncredited)

Film

Western Union

Indian Leader

Film

The Fighting Seabees

Indian Seabee (uncredited)

Film

North West Mounted Police

Wandering Spirit

Film

Santa Fe

Chief Longfeather

Film

Colt .45

Walking Bear

Film

A Ticket to Tomahawk

5.8 1950

Filmography

Acting (57)

Movies (57)

Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

1952

as Black Hawk

4.2

The Half-Breed

1952

as Apache (uncredited)

Santa Fe

as Chief Longfeather

Ambush

as Tana

The Iroquois Trail

Colt .45

as Walking Bear

The Traveling Saleswoman

1950

as Running Deer

4.5

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

1950

as Sleeping Fox

4.9

I Killed Geronimo

1950

as Geronimo

A Ticket to Tomahawk

1950

5.8

Mrs. Mike

1949

as Indian (uncredited)

Call of the Forest

as Stormcloud

The Prairie

as Eagle Feather

The Senator Was Indiscreet

1947

as Indian (as Chief Thunder Cloud)

5.4

Romance of the West

1946

as Chief Eagle Feather

Renegade Girl

as Chief White Cloud

Badman's Territory

as Chief Tahlequah

The Phantom Rider

as Chief Yellow Wolf

Sonora Stagecoach

as Chief Thundercloud

5.0

The Fighting Seabees

1944

as Indian Seabee (uncredited)

6.2

Outlaw Trail

1944

as Thundercloud

Daredevils of the West

1943

as Indian Chief

The Law Rides Again

1943

as Thundercloud

6.0

Lady in a Jam

1942

as Thundercloud (uncredited)

5.3

Shut My Big Mouth

1942

as Indian Interpreter

8.5

Overland Mail

1942

as Chief Many Moons

Western Union

1941

as Indian Leader

6.0

Silver Stallion

1941

as Freshwater Jackson (as Chief 'Tonto' Thundercloud)

Pirates on Horseback

as Flying Cloud

Young Buffalo Bill

as Akuna

Wyoming

as Lightfoot

Typhoon

as Kehi

Hi-Yo Silver

as Tonto

North West Mounted Police

as Wandering Spirit

Hudson's Bay

as Orimha

Murder on the Yukon

as Henchman Manti

Geronimo

as Geronimo

Union Pacific

as Indian (uncredited)

6.6

The Cat and the Canary

as Indian Guide

Fighting Mad

as Indian

The Lone Ranger Rides Again

as Tonto

Flaming Frontiers

as Thunder Cloud

The Lone Ranger

as Tonto

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1938

as Chief Gray Eagle

The Riders of the Whistling Skull

1937

as High Priest

5.2

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

1937

as Indian henchman

3.5

For the Service

1936

as Indian Brave (uncredited)

Ride, Ranger, Ride

as Little Wolf

Custer's Last Stand

as Young Wolf

Ramona

as Pablo

Silly Billies

as Indian

Custer's Last Stand

as Yellow Wolf

Cyclone of the Saddle

1935

as Yellow Wolf

5.2

Saddle Aces

1935

as Canejo Rider Jose

Rustlers of Red Dog

1935

as Chief Grey Wolf [Chs. 1, 5, 11]

8.0

Rustler's Paradise

1935

as Henchman (as Thunder Cloud)

Wagon Trail

1935

as Henchman

3.2