John Trudell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 15, 1946
- Died
- December 8, 2015 (aged 69)
- Birthplace
- 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
Filmography
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
TV · as Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage) · 4 eps
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Movie · as Self
Taking Alcatraz
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Dark Blood
Movie · as Indian #2
Reel Injun
Movie · as Self
No More Smoke Signals
Movie · as Self
The 11th Hour
Movie · as Self
A Thousand Roads
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Trudell
Movie · as Self / Narrator (voice)
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
Movie · as Black Hawk (voice)
Dreamkeeper
Movie · as Coyote
Dreamkeeper
TV · as Coyote · 2 eps
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Movie · as Self - Santee Sioux
Smoke Signals
Movie · as Randy Peone
Extreme Measures
Movie · as Tony
The West
TV · as Self · 9 eps
On Deadly Ground
Movie · as Johnny Redfeather
Incident at Oglala
Movie · as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
Thunderheart
Movie · as Jimmy Looks Twice
Powwow Highway
Movie · as Louie Short Hair