Wes Studi
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.
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission,...
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Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout...
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Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition...
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Hostiles
as Chief Yellow HawkA legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last...
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Dances with Wolves
as Toughest PawneeWounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a...
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Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison...
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The Last of the Mohicans
as MaguaIn war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and...
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Undisputed
as Mingo PaceMonroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was...
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
as CochiseAs a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his...
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A Dog's Way Home
as Captain MicaThe adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is...
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
as WindlifterWhen world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again,...
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The Doors
as Indian in DesertThe story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim...
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Deep Rising
as HanoverA group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot...
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Badland
as Harlan RedDetective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals,...
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When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain...
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The New World
as OpechancanoughA drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
as WovokaBeginning 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 Jack WilsonBeginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story...
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as GeronimoThe Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation....
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Seraphim Falls
as CharonThe Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no...
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The Condemned 2
as CyrusA former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament,...
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Being Flynn
as CaptainWorking in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and...
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Road to Paloma
as NumayWhile Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own...
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Older Than America
as Richard Two RiversThe truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange...
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Animal
as CreeperHis name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a...
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Call of the Wild
as HatcherSelf-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her...
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Miracle at Sage Creek
as Chief ThomasTwo families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle...
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Mending the Line
as HarrisonA Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet...
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Reel Injun
as SelfThe evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent...
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A Love Song
as LitoTwo childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
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Crazy Horse
as Red CloudThe legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the...
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Skinwalkers
as Lt. Joe LeaphornFaced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the...
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Edge of America
as CuchFrom acclaimed director Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American...
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The Killing Jar
as CameronMichael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business....
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Coyote Waits
as Joe LeaphornA Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim...
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Superfire
as Joe NighttrailA firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new...
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Powwow Highway
as BuffTwo Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of...
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A Thief Of Time
as Joe LeaphornOfficers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts...
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Canyon of the Dead
as TsaliTwo archaeologists seek out the Canyon of the Dead and the dead find them.
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Three Priests
as BenDusty and Joe are brothers as different as can be. Dusty, a confident bronco rider and ladies'...
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El Camino
as DaveThree young people drive to Mexico to scatter their friend's ashes, they are forced to confront...
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as SelfInterviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
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The Lone Ranger
as KulakinahThis version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins...
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Ice Planet
as Commander Jonah TragerIn the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military...
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The Midway Point
as Mr. WilliamsJake, a high schooler on the autistic spectrum, feels disillusioned with the world. When he...
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Wind River
as PocatelloThe 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of...
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Road to Redemption
as Frank LightfootA couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from...
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Soundman
as Terry LeonardA 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 CallerA classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort...
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The Only Good Indian
as SamSet in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family...
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The Roof
as Grandpa / NickAfter being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his...
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Behind the Lines
as SelfDocumentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and...
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Sugar
as BishopA 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of...
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Cosmic Radio
as Sherriff Mike NighthorseA 38-year-old California trust fund kid tries to save his independent radio station, KZMC Cosmic...
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The Broken Chain
as Seth / Chief / Speaker for the TribesThe true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and...
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Acting Like Nothing is Wrong
as SelfDespite what would seem to be a flourishing career, most recently playing Kermit on Showtime's...
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The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
as HimselfExplore America’s darkest period: President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the...
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Longarm
as The UteA showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the...
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The Dome of Heaven
as DeWayne MosesSet in the unique beauty of Oklahoma country, "Dome of Heaven" is the story of the Moses family,...
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The Pipeline
as Samuel HorseBased on true stories surrounding the building of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline; a woman, whose...
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A Good Day to Die
as Himself - Actor; CherokeeInterviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement...
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Destination: Planet Negro!
as Chief BobbyIn 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely...
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Making The Last of the Mohicans
as SelfInterviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film.
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Ronnie BoDean
as Ronnie BoDeanRonnie BoDean is a larger-than-life "toughman" suffering from a mean hangover. When his neighbor...
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Battledogs
as Captain FalcosWhen 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 LawrenceFollows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan...
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The Mentalist
as Joeseph SilverwingPatrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and...
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Highlander: The Series
as Sheriff BensonDuncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's...
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Miracle Workers
as Chief Sleeping BearThe first season of this comedy anthology is set in the offices of Heaven Inc. When God plans to...
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American Experience
as Major RidgeTV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform...
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Hell on Wheels
as Chief Many HorsesThe epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who...
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Reservation Dogs
as BuckyFour Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic,...
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Finding Your Roots
as uncreditedNoted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost...
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Penny Dreadful
as KaetenaySome of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and...
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The Flash
as RollerWhen a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged...
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Promised Land
as uncreditedPromised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off...
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UC: Undercover
as uncreditedUC: Undercover is an action-thriller television series that focuses on the secret lives and...
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Woke
as Spoon (voice)Keef, an African-American cartoonist, is finally on the verge of mainstream success when an...
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Into the West
as Black KettleThe lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the...
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Streets of Laredo
as Famous ShoesCaptain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an...
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Kings
as General Linus AbnerA riveting drama about a modern day monarchy, a contemporary re-telling of the timeless tale of...
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The Directors
as SelfDocumentary biography series featuring profiles of various famous film directors.
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Comanche Moon
as Buffalo HumpComanche Moon is a television miniseries that is an adaptation of the novel of the same name. It...
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Ned Blessing
as uncreditedAlone on Executioner's Row, Ned Blessing is a haggard, old cowboy and former sheriff. With...
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American Veteran
as Self - HostThis four-part documentary series traces the veteran experience across the arc of American...
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