Wes Studi
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 most recently 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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 18.341 |
Birthday | 1947-12-17 |
Place of Birth | Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Also Known As | Wesley Studie , |
1995
Heat
7.916/7392
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna p...
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Heat
2008
Three Priests
2/2
Dusty and Joe are brothers as different as can be. Dusty, a confident bronco rider and ladies' man, has always dominated the shy, younger Joe, who str...
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Three Priests
2022
Bonnie
3/1
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
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Bonnie
2005
The New World
6.5/1162
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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The New World
1994
Street Fighter
4.6/1482
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
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Street Fighter
2010
Making The Last of the Mohicans
0/0
Interviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film.
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Making The Last of the Mohicans
1998
Deep Rising
6.178/715
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, t...
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Deep Rising
1992
The Last of the Mohicans
7.382/3107
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a B...
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The Last of the Mohicans
2015
Ronnie BoDean
0/0
Ronnie BoDean is a larger-than-life "toughman" suffering from a mean hangover. When his neighbor is jailed, his native warrior's need to teach takes o...
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Ronnie BoDean
1999
Mystery Men
5.8/831
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superhe...
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Mystery Men
1993
Geronimo: An American Legend
6.3/257
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
Behind the Lines
0/0
Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the...
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Behind the Lines
2002
Undisputed
6.5/732
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. I...
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Undisputed
2022
Acting Like Nothing is Wrong
0/0
Despite what would seem to be a flourishing career, most recently playing Kermit on Showtime's Shameless, Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster str...
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Acting Like Nothing is Wrong
2022
A Love Song
6.8/43
Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
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A Love Song
2005
Miracle at Sage Creek
5.6/8
Two families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle saves the life of a small boy.
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Miracle at Sage Creek
2008
Older Than America
4.6/24
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young...
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Older Than America
1997
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
0/0
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
2009
Avatar
7.584/31803
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecti...
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Avatar
2023
Mending the Line
6.4/28
A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means to coming to t...
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Mending the Line
2003
The Lone Ranger
5.4/5
This version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins with the introduction of Luke Hartman, a 20-year old...
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The Lone Ranger
2023
The Roof
6.1/9
After being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his family and community in a way he never thought possible.
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The Roof
2003
Coyote Waits
4.7/9
A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Chee investigates the case he discovers some unusual...
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Coyote Waits
2002
Skinwalkers
6.6/11
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medic...
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Skinwalkers
2008
El Camino
3/3
Three young people drive to Mexico to scatter their friend's ashes, they are forced to confront their own sense of family, identity and future.
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El Camino
2004
A Thief Of Time
4.7/3
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.
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A Thief Of Time
2000
Wind River
6/6
The 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of Pony Express rider Nick Wilson.
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Wind River
1988
Longarm
4/1
A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887.
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Longarm
2013
Battledogs
4.474/57
When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of super-sol...
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Battledogs
2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West
6/4107
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious...
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue
6.2/858
When world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of...
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
2024
Terra Infirma
0/0
Nature, government and industry collide in southwest US and southwest China, as nature fights back and people struggle to survive.
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Terra Infirma
2009
Call of the Wild
6.3/42
Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf...
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Call of the Wild
1993
The Broken Chain
3/4
The true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
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The Broken Chain
2014
Pie Lady of Pie Town
0/0
In the New Mexico desert, pie equals love. Kathy Knapp left her privileged life to bake pie in dusty Pie Town, a once forgotten corner of the world wi...
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Pie Lady of Pie Town
2003
Edge of America
5.9/7
From acclaimed director Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time", comes this touching and inspir...
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Edge of America
2007
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
6.5/117
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastm...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
6.5/117
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastm...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
1996
Crazy Horse
9.563/8
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
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Crazy Horse
1990
Dances with Wolves
7.844/4270
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
Road to Redemption
6.5/4
A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters
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Road to Redemption
2014
Road to Paloma
5.9/120
While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their rese...
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Road to Paloma
1997
The Killing Jar
4.5/4
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Mean...
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The Killing Jar
2013
Sugar
6.2/8
A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Hollywood and Venice beach.
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Sugar
2015
The Condemned 2
5.145/152
A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to th...
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The Condemned 2
2001
Christmas in the Clouds
6.125/16
A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation...
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Christmas in the Clouds
2024
The Midway Point
0/0
Jake, a high schooler on the autistic spectrum, feels disillusioned with the world. When he meets Alice, he begins to experience the world in other wa...
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The Midway Point
1989
Powwow Highway
6.6/24
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
2009
The Only Good Indian
3.5/2
Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian "training" school...
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The Only Good Indian
2009
The Undying
4.2/5
Seduced by the ghost of a Civil War soldier, Barbara Haughton creates a love that is undying.
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The Undying
1999
Soundman
5.2/4
A sound mixer on a low-budget sci-fi western movie falls in love with an untalented violinist and promises to get her scoring gigs for films.
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Soundman
2013
Destination: Planet Negro!
6.5/2
In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America -- leave the planet and populat...
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Destination: Planet Negro!
2005
Animal
5.6/47
His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who cha...
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Animal
1996
Lone Justice: Showdown at Plum Creek
5/1
A frontier sheriff copes with a missing corpse, Briton Oscar Wilde and an assassination attempt.
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Lone Justice: Showdown at Plum Creek
2006
The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
4.5/2
Explore America’s darkest period: President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma in 1...
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The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
2017
Hostiles
6.9/2298
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family thr...
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Hostiles
2001
Ice Planet
4.6/18
In the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military academy is attacked by an unknown and unstoppable ali...
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Ice Planet
2019
A Dog's Way Home
7.4/1116
The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
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A Dog's Way Home
2002
Superfire
5/7
A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, t...
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Superfire
2007
Seraphim Falls
6.4/570
The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and prope...
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Seraphim Falls
2011
The Dome of Heaven
0/0
Set in the unique beauty of Oklahoma country, "Dome of Heaven" is the story of the Moses family, dysfunctionally struggling for decades, and which con...
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The Dome of Heaven
2007
Wolf Ridge
0/0
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Wolf Ridge
2010
Reel Injun
7.2/35
The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era to the present day: how their image on the screen...
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Reel Injun
2019
Badland
6.2/118
Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested...
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Badland
2012
Being Flynn
6.1/256
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick w...
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Being Flynn
2010
A Good Day to Die
6.5/2
Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the...
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A Good Day to Die
2020
Soul
8.118/10570
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an acciden...
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Soul
Canyon of the Dead
0/0
Two archaeologists seek out the Canyon of the Dead and the dead find them.
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Canyon of the Dead
2007
Cosmic Radio
2/1
A 38-year-old California trust fund kid tries to save his independent radio station, KZMC Cosmic Radio, from financial ruin when his wealthy father pu...
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Cosmic Radio
Candles
0/0
A fictional drama based on actual events. CANDLES is the story of the Camp Scott Murders where three small girls were brutally raped and murdered at a...
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Candles
1991
The Doors
7.1/1440
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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The Doors
Brave
0/0
Uncle Jack, a 15-year military veteran with a history of substance abuse who works as an entertainer at a local Native casino. At his estranged brothe...
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Brave
Timber Lands
0/0
Follows two families with a deep-seated generational hatred for each other which comes to a head after the tragic death of one of the families’ celebr...
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Timber Lands
The Pipeline
0/0
Based on true stories surrounding the building of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline; a woman, whose father dies, is left a trust fund tied to a mysterious...
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The Pipeline
Yesteryear
0/0
A Native American actress living in Los Angeles psychologically unravels in quarantine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, BLM Protests, and other world eve...
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