Rodd Redwing
Rodd Redwing | |
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Born | New York City, New York, USA | August 24, 1904
Died | May 29, 1971 Los Angeles, California, USA | (aged 66)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1912-1970 |
Spouse | Erika Rosa Wagner |
Rodd Redwing, also known as Roderic Redwing or Rodric Redwing (August 24, 1904 – May 29, 1971), claimed to be a Native American actor and was noted as a quick-draw artist with six-guns. Recent research on Redwing shows that in the United States Census 1940, his birthplace was listed as India and not New York City.[1] Other sources say his real name was Roderick Rajpurkaii Jr.[2]
Biography
Redwing was one of the top gun, knife, tomahawk, and whip instructors in Hollywood. After claiming that he began in films in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1931 The Squaw Man (although no cast list shows that he acted in that movie), Redwing soon became a gun-handling coach to Alan Ladd, Ronald Reagan, Burt Lancaster, Glenn Ford, Richard Widmark, Anthony Quinn, Charlton Heston, Dean Martin, Fred MacMurray and many other actors. He performed Alan Ladd's fancy gunspinning seen in the film Shane during the climatic showdown.
Between 1951 and 1967, Redwing appeared in more than a dozen television programs, including a guest appearance on CBS's celebrity quiz show, What's My Line?
In eight episodes of the ABC/Desilu western television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Redwing appeared in the part of "Mr. Brother," a Cheyenne friend and informer of deputy Marshal Wyatt Earp (Hugh O'Brian). Rico Alaniz similarly appeared with Redwing in the role of the Cheyenne "Mr. Cousin." In the 1958 episode "One," "Mr. Brother" is killed by the four-man Dry Gulch Gang. Several episodes of the series are spent as Marshal Earp hunts down the gang, one of whom has been given a haven by his girlfriend, the daughter of a rancher. All of the gang are ultimately hanged.[3][4]
Film credits
- White Hunter (1936) - Farid (uncredited)
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) - Native (uncredited)
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942) - Egyptian Clerk (uncredited)
- Daredevils of the West (1943) - Indian (uncredited)
- Frontier Fury (1943) - Captured Indian (uncredited)
- The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) - Javanese Orderly (uncredited)
- Sonora Stagecoach (1944) - Indian (uncredited)
- Rainbow Island (1944) - Queen's Guard (uncredited)
- Objective, Burma! (1945) - Sgt. Chattu (uncredited)
- Out of the Depths (1945) - Mike Rawhide
- The Scarlet Horseman (1946) - Comanche Warrior (uncredited)
- Singin' in the Corn (1946) - Indian Brave
- Unconquered (1947) - Indian (uncredited)
- The Last Round-Up (1947) - Louie (uncredited)
- Intrigue (1947) - Spy in Editor's Office (uncredited)
- Key Largo (1948) - John Osceola (uncredited)
- Song of India (1949) - Kumari (uncredited)
- We Were Strangers (1949) - (uncredited)
- Riders of the Pony Express (1949) - Bearclaw - Henchman
- Laramie (1949) - Indian Lookout (uncredited)
- Rope of Sand (1949) - Oscar - Waiter (uncredited)
- Apache Chief (1949) - Tewa
- Samson and Delilah (1949) - Temple Spectator (uncredited)
- Cargo to Capetown (1950) - Native Cab Driver (uncredited)
- Kim (1950) - Creighton's Servant (uncredited)
- The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951) - Betien - Indian Guard (uncredited)
- Little Big Horn (1951) - Cpl. Arika
- Thunder in the East (1951) - Hassam (uncredited)
- Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952) - Running Deer
- Rancho Notorious (1952) - Rio
- Hellgate (1952) - Pima (uncredited)
- Son of Geronimo (1952) - Porico, Son of Geronimo
- The Pathfinder (1952) - Chief Arrowhead
- Winning of the West (1953) - Pete Littlewolf (uncredited)
- Last of the Comanches (1953) - Indian (uncredited)
- Conquest of Cochise (1953) - Red Knife
- Saginaw Trail (1953) - Huron Chief (uncredited)
- Flight to Tangier (1953) - Police Orderly
- Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) - Louis - Expedition Foreman (uncredited)
- The Naked Jungle (1954) - Indian (uncredited)
- Gunfighters of the Northwest (1954) - Bear Tooth
- Elephant Walk (1954) - Servant (uncredited)
- Cattle Queen of Montana (1954) - Powhani
- The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955) - Indian (uncredited)
- The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955) - Yaqui Tracker (uncredited)
- Jaguar (1956) - Porter #1
- The Ten Commandments (1956) - Taskmaster / Hebrew at Golden Calf
- The Mole People (1956) - Nazar
- Copper Sky (1957) - Indian (uncredited)
- The Sad Sack (1957) - Bartender (uncredited)
- The Flame Barrier (1958) - Waumi
- Heller in Pink Tights (1960) - Indian (uncredited)
- Flaming Star (1960) - Indian Warrior
- One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
- Sergeants 3 (1962) - Irregular
- 4 for Texas (1963) - Indian (uncredited)
- The Virginian (1964 episode "The Intruders") - Black Feather's Brave
- Apache Uprising (1965) - Archie Whitewater
- Johnny Reno (1966) - Indian Brave
- The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968) - White Buffalo (uncredited)
- Shalako (1968) - Chato's Father
- Charro! (1969) - Lige
- Red Sun (1971)
Death
After filming his part in The Red Sun, Redwing died at the age of 66. On a flight from Spain to Los Angeles he suffered a heart attack and died 35 minutes later, just before the plane landed. The urn containing his ashes was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
References
- ^ "Personal Details for Rodrich Redwing". FamilySearch.org. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
- ^ "Rod Redwing of Hollywood is Newest Actor". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. August 2, 1949. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
- ^ "Rodd Redwing". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
- ^ "Rico Alaniz". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved May 15, 2014.