The Last of the Mohicans (TV series) experienced Welsh TV actor who often played villains, and Richard Warwick as Uncas. In a contemporary review in "The New York Times" John J. O'Connor criticized the "natural handicap of vocal accents" of British actors portraying Native Americans. He summarized; "The over‐all production, complete with forest battles and canoe joustings, is excellent. The color photography is first‐rate. And most of the performances, in the B.B.C. tradition, are superb." The Last of the Mohicans (TV series) The Last of the Mohicans is a 1971 BBC serial, based on the novel of the same name by James Fenimore Cooper, directed by David
Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. James Fenimore Cooper and sixth generation descendent of William Cooper, founder of Cooperstown, New York. He had a brother, James Fenimore Cooper IV, and two sisters, Susan and Katherine. James passed away in 2014 and his sisters passed away within the year prior to that. Cooper spent summers throughout his childhood and later life in Cooperstown, and grew up swimming in Otsego Lake and in the surrounding forest and fields. Cooper attributes his interest in science writing to elementary school, where he read a copy of "From the Earth to the Moon", an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. From ages