John Trudell
Acting
1946-02-15 · Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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.
tvVow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
as Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage) · 2024 · 8.7
movieLakota Nation vs. United States
as Self (archive footage) · 2022 · 6.2
movieRumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
as Self · 2017 · 7.6
movieTaking Alcatraz
as Self (archive footage) · 2015 · 0.0
movieDark Blood
as Indian #2 · 2012 · 6.0
movieReel Injun
as Self · 2010 · 7.0
movieNo More Smoke Signals
as self · 2009 · 4.0
movieThe 11th Hour
as Self · 2007 · 6.7
movieAmerica's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
as Black Hawk (voice) · 2005 · 0.0
movieA Thousand Roads
as Narrator (voice) · 2005 · 9.0
movieTrudell
as Self / Narrator (voice) · 2005 · 5.7
movieDreamkeeper
as Coyote · 2003 · 6.7
tvDreamkeeper
as Coyote · 2003 · 5.0
movieMaking a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
as Self - Santee Sioux · 1999 · 7.0
movieSmoke Signals
as Randy Peone · 1998 · 6.8
movieExtreme Measures
as Tony · 1996 · 6.0
tvThe West
as Self · 1996 · 8.4
movieOn Deadly Ground
as Johnny Redfeather · 1994 · 5.2
movieIncident at Oglala
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement · 1992 · 7.1
movieThunderheart
as Jimmy Looks Twice · 1992 · 6.3
moviePowwow Highway
as Louie Short Hair · 1989 · 6.8