Rodney A. Grant
Rodney Arnold Grant (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor.
Grant, a Native American, was raised on the Omaha Reservation in Macy, Nebraska. He is probably most well known for his role as "Wind In His Hair" in the 1990 film Dances with Wolves. He has also appeared in other films such as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Wild Wild West, Geronimo: An American Legend, White Wolves III: Cry of the White Wolf, Wagons East!, The Substitute, War Party, and Powwow Highway. In television, he played the part of "Chingachgook" in the series Hawkeye that aired in 1994-1995. He has also had guest roles in a television series such as Due South, Two, and the Stargate SG-1 episode "Spirits". He also portrayed the famous warrior Crazy Horse in the 1991 television movie Son of the Morning Star.
Grant is a member of the Omaha tribe of Nebraska. He has been very active in youth activities and had served on the Native American Advisory Board for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He has five grown children, three from a previous marriage, and two from previous relationships. He currently resides in southern California.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0943 |
| Birthday | 1959-03-09 |
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| Also Known As |
1990
Dances with Wolves
7.84/4516
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junct...
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Dances with Wolves
2001
Ghosts of Mars
5.144/1177
In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted a...
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Ghosts of Mars
1998
The Staircase
7.5/4
A mysterious carpenter appears just as a church is in need of repair.
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The Staircase
1994
Wagons East!
4.86/107
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide t...
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Wagons East!
1994
F.T.W.
4.556/18
A man and a woman running from their pasts are trapped on a collision course with the future. Frank T. Wells, a newly-released ex-con looking for a fe...
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F.T.W.
2005
Don't Come Knocking
6.2/135
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and y...
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Don't Come Knocking
1997
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
5/1
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1998
Two for Texas
6/4
Kris Kristofferson and Scott Bairstow are hunted fugitives from a Louisiana prison camp who come Two for Texas when they opt to lose themselves in a c...
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Two for Texas
1999
The Jack Bull
6.3/95
When the law fails to punish a fellow rancher that has abused his horses, a Wyoming horse trader sacrifices it all in a quest for justice.
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The Jack Bull
1996
The Substitute
6.9/530
When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend g...
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The Substitute
1993
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
1/1
Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laundry? This one-hour special features dozens of space...
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Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
2000
White Wolves III - Cry of the White Wolf
5.6/10
Two teenagers are put to the test when the plane taking them to a wilderness boot camp for juvenile offenders crashes into the vast sierra. Their pilo...
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White Wolves III - Cry of the White Wolf
2011
Shouting Secrets
9/2
Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once abo...
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Shouting Secrets
1988
War Party
6.2/5
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't s...
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War Party
1991
The Doors
7.106/1535
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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The Doors
2002
Just a Dream
4.8/5
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
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Just a Dream
1993
Geronimo: An American Legend
6.3/276
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of cor...
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Geronimo: An American Legend
1999
Lakota Moon
0/0
This movie depicts the life of a small Indian tribe, in a time shortly before the white men became a threat. In the focus of the story is the young Sk...
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Lakota Moon
1997
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
7.565/46
Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brews...
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
1989
Powwow Highway
6.6/26
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa...
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Powwow Highway
1997
Vanishing Point
5.5/60
When his wife goes into a troubled labor while he is on the road over 1200 miles away James Kowalski, an ex race car driver and a former Army Ranger,...
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Vanishing Point
1999
Wild Wild West
5.314/3458
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him:...
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Wild Wild West
1998
The Killing Grounds
4.7/6
After the fatal crash of a small airplane in the high Sierras, six greedy strangers clash over a fortune in stolen gold. The torturous trip down the...
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The Killing Grounds
1990
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
6.5/2
A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.
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The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
2012
Dark Blood
5.833/24
Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site i...
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