Wes Studi
Birthday: 1947-12-17
Place of Birth: Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, USA
Biography: Wesley "Wes" Studi (born December 17, 1947) is an American Cherokee actor, who has earned notability for his portrayals of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in well-received Academy Award-winning films, such as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the award-winning Geronimo: An American Legend and the Academy Award-nominated film The New World (2005). He portrayed General Linus Abner (an analogue to the biblical Abner) in the NBC series Kings, and Eytukan in James Cameron's box office blockbuster Avatar.
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Heat
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los ...
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Three Priests
Dusty and Joe are brothers as different as can be. Dusty, a confident bronco rider and ladies' man, ...
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The New World
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the...
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Street Fighter
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison a...
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Making The Last of the Mohicans
Interviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film....
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Deep Rising
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it,...
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The Last of the Mohicans
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...
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Ronnie BoDean
Ronnie BoDean is a larger-than-life "toughman" suffering from a mean hangover. When his neighbor is ...
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Mystery Men
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova...
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Geronimo: An American Legend
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not al...
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Behind the Lines
Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired...
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Undisputed
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convict...
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Acting Like Nothing is Wrong
Despite what would seem to be a flourishing career, most recently playing Kermit on Showtime's Shame...
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A Love Song
Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains....
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Miracle at Sage Creek
Two families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle saves t...
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Older Than America
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visio...
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western....
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Avatar
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but ...
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Mending the Line
A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who...
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The Lone Ranger
This version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins wit...
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The Roof
After being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his family a...
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Coyote Waits
A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Che...
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Skinwalkers
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders a...
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El Camino
Three young people drive to Mexico to scatter their friend's ashes, they are forced to confront thei...
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A Thief Of Time
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from ...
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Wind River
The 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of Pon...
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Longarm
A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Me...
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Battledogs
When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue gener...
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found ...
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
When world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he ...
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Terra Infirma
Nature, government and industry collide in southwest US and southwest China, as nature fights back a...
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Call of the Wild
Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to...
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The Broken Chain
The true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and the ...
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Pie Lady of Pie Town
In the New Mexico desert, pie equals love. Kathy Knapp left her privileged life to bake pie in dusty...
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Edge of America
From acclaimed director Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American film...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...
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Crazy Horse
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation ...
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Dances with Wolves
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...
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Road to Redemption
A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangste...
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Road to Paloma
While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, ...
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The Killing Jar
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, ...
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Sugar
A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Holly...
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The Condemned 2
A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in w...
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Christmas in the Clouds
A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that...
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The Midway Point
Jake, a high schooler on the autistic spectrum, feels disillusioned with the world. When he meets Al...
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Powwow Highway
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one ...
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The Only Good Indian
Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family and f...
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The Undying
Seduced by the ghost of a Civil War soldier, Barbara Haughton creates a love that is undying....
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Soundman
A sound mixer on a low-budget sci-fi western movie falls in love with an untalented violinist and pr...
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Destination: Planet Negro!
In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response t...
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Animal
His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum...
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Lone Justice: Showdown at Plum Creek
A frontier sheriff copes with a missing corpse, Briton Oscar Wilde and an assassination attempt....
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The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
Explore America’s darkest period: President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the forc...
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Hostiles
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignm...
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Ice Planet
In the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military aca...
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A Dog's Way Home
The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated fr...
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Superfire
A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignmen...
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Seraphim Falls
The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no mat...
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The Dome of Heaven
Set in the unique beauty of Oklahoma country, "Dome of Heaven" is the story of the Moses family, dys...
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Reel Injun
The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era...
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Badland
Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams t...
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Being Flynn
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-procla...
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A Good Day to Die
Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader wh...
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Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at th...
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Canyon of the Dead
Two archaeologists seek out the Canyon of the Dead and the dead find them....
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Cosmic Radio
A 38-year-old California trust fund kid tries to save his independent radio station, KZMC Cosmic Rad...
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Candles
A fictional drama based on actual events. CANDLES is the story of the Camp Scott Murders where three...
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The Doors
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morris...
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Brave
Uncle Jack, a 15-year military veteran with a history of substance abuse who works as an entertainer...
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Timber Lands
Follows two families with a deep-seated generational hatred for each other which comes to a head aft...
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The Pipeline
Based on true stories surrounding the building of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline; a woman, whose fath...
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Exhale
A Native American actress with respiratory issues psychologically unravels as an airborne virus sieg...
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Indian America: A Gift from the Past
In 1970 a storm uncovers an ancient whaling village called Ozette which had been buried some 500 yea...
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The Great Cherokee Grandmother
A pleasant date between a man of Cherokee heritage and a Caucasian woman goes downhill when the woma...
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21 and a Wake-Up
"I learn that Chris McIntyre served in Vietnam and that "21 and a Wakeup," set in an Army hospital i...
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Lone Justice 2
After a six-year absence, Ned Blessing returns to his hometown with his sidekick, Crecencio. There h...
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and ...
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