Iron Eyes Cody
Born: 1907-04-03 Gueydan, Louisiana, USA
Died: 1999-01-04
Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti), was an Italian-American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface. He also played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements, 'Keep America Beautiful'. Cody began acting in the early 1930s. He worked in film and television until his death. Cody claimed his father was Cherokee (and his mother Cree), also naming several different tribes, and frequently changing his claimed place of birth. To those unfamiliar with Indigenous American or First Nation ...
Acting (in our collection)
A Man Called Horse
(1970)
Nevada Smith
(1966)
Ace in the Hole
(1951)
Broken Arrow
(1950)
The Paleface
(1948)
Too Many Girls
(1940)