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One of his last appearances was on March 1, 1955, as the Apache Geronimo in the premiere of the syndicated television series Buffalo Bill, Jr. Daniels appeared as Chief Thundercloud in the 1954 episode "The Saint's Portrait" of the syndicated anthology series Death Valley Days hosted by Stanley Andrews.
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He also appeared in the first two parts of the serial Custer's Last Stand (1936), again uncredited.ĭaniels had a short appearance on early television on The Gene Autry Show (1950).
In the film Renegade Girl (1946), he played the main villain, Chief Whitecloud, a vengeful antagonist with a vendetta against the protagonist's family.Īlthough featured in a number of films, Daniels was uncredited in some films, such as Gun Smoke (1936), a film about a ranch defending itself from a flood of sheep. For example, in the film "Young Buffalo Bill" (1940) he played Akuna, a renegade Native American chief who commits murder while working as a hired hand. In most of the films in which he was featured, he played an antagonist opposing the white protagonist. Throughout the 1940s, Daniels continued to work as a character actor, maintaining the Chief Thundercloud persona. He had the title role in Geronimo (1939) and played Tonto in both Republic Lone Ranger serials, The Lone Ranger (1938) and The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939). His title "Chief" was a Hollywood invention, a stage name. From there he graduated to character actor status. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.įind sources: "Chief Thundercloud" – news ĭaniels worked many jobs - cowboy on cattle ranches, miner, rodeo performer, and tour guide - before he went to Hollywood to try his luck at acting. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. This section relies largely or entirely on a single source. Raised on a ranch in Arizona, he claimed to have attended the University of Arizona at Tucson, where he "excelled scholastically and in athletics (football, boxing)." However, no record exists of his enrollment or attendance at the school under the name Daniels or any other name he used. The pressbook for The Lone Ranger Rides Again announced his parents as "Dark Cloud and Morning Star, aristocrats of the Muskogee tribe", while his death certificate lists his father as Joseph Mahawa. He was actually the first of nine children born to Jesus and Tomaca Daniels (as indicated on his Social Security application). His Lone Ranger press biography claimed he was derived from the " Muskogee aristocracy" -but the concept of European "royalty" and "aristocrats" is foreign to Native American cultures. Thundercloud divorced Mildred and later married Frances Courtright on April 26, 1933. At that time, he called himself “Victor Vasquez.” Their son Victor Junior Daniels was born on May 7, 1926, and a second son, Norman Daniels, on September 5, 1927, both in Los Angeles. Thundercloud's first marriage was to 17-year-old Mildred Turner (from Missouri) on May 26, 1925, in Los Angeles. On her birth certificate she listed similar parents with Jesus Daniel (born in Sonora) and Tomaso Acuna (born in Arizona). He had a sister named Anita, born October 6, 1911, in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona Territory. Social Security application of "Chief Thunder Cloud" (Daniels), 1937ĭaniels claimed to be Cherokee, though he does not appear in tribal rolls of the period.
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