Wes Studi

Born: 1947-12-17

Wesley "Wes" Studi (born December 17, 1947) is an American Cherokee actor, who has earned notability for his portrayals of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in well-received Academy Award-winning films, such as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the award-winning Geronimo: An American Legend and the Academy Award-nominated film The New World (2005). He most recently portrayed General Linus Abner (an analogue to the biblical Abner) in the NBC series Kings, and Eytukan in James Cameron's box office blockbuster Avatar.


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as Detective Casals
Released: 1995-12-15

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout...

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as Eytukan
Released: 2009-12-15

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission,...

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as Counselor Jerry (voice)
Released: 2020-12-25

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition...

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Dances with Wolves

as Toughest Pawnee
Released: 1990-03-30

Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a...

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Deep Rising

as Hanover
Released: 1998-01-30

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot...

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Undisputed

as Mingo Pace
Released: 2002-07-17

Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was...

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Hostiles

as Chief Yellow Hawk
Released: 2017-12-22

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last...

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as Sphinx
Released: 1999-08-06

When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain...

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as Victor Sagat
Released: 1994-12-23

Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison...

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A Dog's Way Home

as Captain Mica
Released: 2019-01-10

The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is...

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The Last of the Mohicans

as Magua
Released: 1992-08-26

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and...

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The Doors

as Indian in Desert
Released: 1991-03-01

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim...

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A Million Ways to Die in the West

as Cochise
Released: 2014-05-22

As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his...

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Seraphim Falls

as Charon
Released: 2007-01-26

The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no...

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Planes: Fire & Rescue

as Windlifter
Released: 2014-07-17

When world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again,...

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The New World

as Opechancanough
Released: 2005-12-25

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in...

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Badland

as Harlan Red
Released: 2019-11-01

Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals,...

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

as Jack Wilson
Released: 2007-05-27

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story...

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

as Wovoka
Released: 2007-05-27

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story...

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Being Flynn

as Captain
Released: 2012-03-02

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and...

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Geronimo: An American Legend

as Geronimo
Released: 1993-12-10

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation....

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The Condemned 2

as Cyrus
Released: 2015-11-06

A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament,...

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Animal

as Creeper
Released: 2005-05-01

His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a...

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Call of the Wild

as Hatcher
Released: 2009-06-12

Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her...

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Road to Paloma

as Numay
Released: 2014-04-12

While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own...

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Reel Injun

as Himself
Released: 2010-02-19

The evolution of the depiction of Native Americans in film, from the silent era until today,...

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Ice Planet

as Commander Jonah Trager
Released: 2001-01-01

In the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military...

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Bonnie

as Self
Released: 2022-11-12

A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

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A Love Song

as Lito
Released: 2022-07-29

Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.

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Mending the Line

as Harrison
Released: 2023-06-09

A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet...

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Skinwalkers

as Lt. Joe Leaphorn
Released: 2002-11-02

Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the...

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Powwow Highway

as Buff
Released: 1989-02-24

Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of...

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Coyote Waits

as Joe Leaphorn
Released: 2003-11-16

A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim...

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Cosmic Radio

as Sherriff Mike Nighthorse
Released: 2007-10-27

A 38-year-old California trust fund kid tries to save his independent radio station, KZMC Cosmic...

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Older Than America

as Richard Two Rivers
Released: 2008-03-08

The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange...

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Wind River

as Pocatello
Released: 2000-06-07

The 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of...

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The Roof

as Grandpa / Nick
Released: 2023-07-23

After being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his...

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Superfire

as Joe Nighttrail
Released: 2002-04-20

A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new...

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Crazy Horse

as Red Cloud
Released: 1996-07-07

The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the...

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Three Priests

as Ben
Released: 2008-01-01

Dusty and Joe are brothers as different as can be. Dusty, a confident bronco rider and ladies'...

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El Camino

as Dave
Released: 2008-02-29

Three young people drive to Mexico to scatter their friend's ashes, they are forced to confront...

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Sugar

as Bishop
Released: 2013-04-06

A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of...

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Longarm

as The Ute
Released: 1988-03-06

A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the...

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Miracle at Sage Creek

as Chief Thomas
Released: 2005-11-25

Two families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle...

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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

as Self
Released: 1997-07-27

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

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Edge of America

as Cuch
Released: 2003-12-10

From acclaimed director, Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American...

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The Killing Jar

as Cameron
Released: 1997-05-27

Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business....

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Soundman

as Terry Leonard
Released: 1999-01-24

A sound mixer on a low-budget sci-fi western movie falls in love with an untalented violinist...

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Christmas in the Clouds

as Bingo Caller
Released: 2001-01-21

A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort...

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The Lone Ranger

as Kulakinah
Released: 2003-02-26

This version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins...

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Canyon Del Muerto

as Tsali
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The film, written and produced by Coerte Voorhees, portrays the life of Ann Axtell Morris, one...

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Road to Redemption

as Frank Lightfoot
Released: 2001-09-28

A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from...

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A Thief Of Time

as Joe Leaphorn
Released: 2004-07-11

Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts...

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Ronnie BoDean

as Ronnie BoDean
Released: 2015-06-01

Ronnie BoDean is a larger-than-life "toughman" suffering from a mean hangover. When his neighbor...

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The Broken Chain

as Seth / Chief / Speaker for the Tribes
Released: 1993-11-11

The true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and...

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Making The Last of the Mohicans

as Self
Released: 2010-10-03

Interviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film.

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Wolf Ridge

as uncredited
Released: 2007-10-12

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The Midway Point

as Mr. Williams
Released:

Jake, a high schooler on the autistic spectrum, feels disillusioned with the world. When he...

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A Good Day to Die

as Himself - Actor; Cherokee
Released: 2010-11-12

Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement...

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The Only Good Indian

as Sam
Released: 2009-12-01

Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family...

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Acting Like Nothing is Wrong

as Self
Released: 2022-11-04

Despite what would seem to be a flourishing career, most recently playing Kermit on Showtime's...

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Destination: Planet Negro!

as Chief Bobby
Released: 2013-02-16

In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely...

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The Dome of Heaven

as DeWayne Moses
Released: 2011-07-04

Set in the unique beauty of Oklahoma country, "Dome of Heaven" is the story of the Moses family,...

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The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

as Himself
Released: 2006-02-01

Explore America’s darkest period: President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the...

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Battledogs

as Captain Falcos
Released: 2013-04-05

When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue...

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Grey's Anatomy

as William Lawrence
First aired: 2005-03-27

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan...

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The Mentalist

as Joeseph Silverwing
First aired: 2008-09-23

Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and...

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Highlander: The Series

as Sheriff Benson
First aired: 1992-10-03

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's...

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The Flash

as Roller
First aired: 1990-09-20

When a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged...

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Hell on Wheels

as Chief Many Horses
First aired: 2011-11-06

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who...

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American Experience

as Major Ridge
First aired: 1988-10-04

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform...

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Penny Dreadful

as Kaetenay
First aired: 2014-05-11

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and...

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Reservation Dogs

as Bucky
First aired: 2021-08-09

Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic,...

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Miracle Workers

as Chief Sleeping Bear
First aired: 2019-02-12

The first season of this comedy anthology is set in the offices of Heaven Inc. When God plans to...

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Into the West

as Black Kettle
First aired: 2005-06-10

The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the...

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Promised Land

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-09-17

Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off...

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Streets of Laredo

as Famous Shoes
First aired: 1995-11-12

Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an...

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UC: Undercover

as uncredited
First aired: 2001-09-30

UC: Undercover is an action-thriller television series that focuses on the secret lives and...

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Kings

as General Linus Abner
First aired: 2009-03-15

A riveting drama about a modern day monarchy, a contemporary re-telling of the timeless tale of...

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Comanche Moon

as Buffalo Hump
First aired: 2008-01-13

Comanche Moon is a television miniseries that is an adaptation of the novel of the same name. It...

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The Directors

as Self
First aired: 1999-01-01

Documentary biography series featuring profiles of various famous film directors.

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Ned Blessing

as uncredited
First aired: 1993-08-18

Alone on Executioner's Row, Ned Blessing is a haggard, old cowboy and former sheriff. With...

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American Veteran

as Self - Host
First aired: 2021-10-26

This four-part documentary series traces the veteran experience across the arc of American...

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