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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 15, 1946
Died
December 8, 2015
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
John Trudell
1.9 Popularity
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
8.7
Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage)
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
2024
5.3
Self (archive footage)
Lakota Nation vs. United States
2022
7.6
Self
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2017
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Taking Alcatraz
2015
5.8
Indian #2
Dark Blood
2012
7.0
Self
Reel Injun
2010
4.0
self
No More Smoke Signals
2009
6.7
Self
The 11th Hour
2007
0.0
Black Hawk (voice)
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
2005
8.0
Narrator (voice)
A Thousand Roads
2005
Credits
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
as Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage)
2024
8.7
Lakota Nation vs. United States
as Self (archive footage)
2022
5.3
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
as Self
2017
7.6
Taking Alcatraz
as Self (archive footage)
2015
0.0
Dark Blood
as Indian #2
2012
5.8
Reel Injun
as Self
2010
7.0
No More Smoke Signals
as self
2009
4.0
The 11th Hour
as Self
2007
6.7
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
as Black Hawk (voice)
2005
0.0
A Thousand Roads
as Narrator (voice)
2005
8.0
Trudell
as Self / Narrator (voice)
2005
5.4
Dreamkeeper
as Coyote
2003
6.6
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
as Self - Santee Sioux
1999
0.0
Smoke Signals
as Randy Peone
1998
6.8
Extreme Measures
as Tony
1996
6.0
The West
as Self
1996
8.4
On Deadly Ground
as Johnny Redfeather
1994
5.2
Incident at Oglala
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
1992
7.0
Thunderheart
as Jimmy Looks Twice
1992
6.3
Powwow Highway
as Louie Short Hair
1989
6.6