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