Name
John Trudell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1946-02-15
Deathday
2015-12-08 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Biography
John Trudell was an American Indian author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
After his pregnant wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed in 1979 in a fire at the home of his parents-in-law on the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada, Trudell turned to writing, music and film as a second career. He acted in three films in the 1990s. The documentary Trudell (2005) was made about him and his life as an activist and artist.
Known For
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Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegi...
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Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome en...
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A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a...
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A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions ...
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Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses an...
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In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Sha...
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Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the stor...
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Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sist...
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The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the ...
- 1998 Smoke Signals as Randy Peone
- 1999 Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson as Self - Santee Sioux
- 2007 The 11th Hour as Self
- 1989 Powwow Highway as Louie Short Hair
- 2003 Dreamkeeper as Coyote
- 2010 Reel Injun as Self
- 2005 A Thousand Roads as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Taking Alcatraz as Self (archive footage)
- 1992 Incident at Oglala as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
- 2005 Trudell as Self / Narrator (voice)
- 1992 Thunderheart as Jimmy Looks Twice
- 1996 Extreme Measures as Tony
- 1994 On Deadly Ground as Johnny Redfeather
- 2009 No More Smoke Signals as self
- 2017 Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World as Self
- 2012 Dark Blood as Indian #2
- 2022 Lakota Nation vs. United States as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie as Black Hawk (voice)
- 1996 The West ( 9 episodes ) as Self
- 2024 Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae ( 4 episodes ) as Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage)
- 2003 Dreamkeeper ( 2 episodes ) as Coyote
