Jay Silverheels Jay Silverheels Jay Silverheels (born Harold Preston Smith, May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Mohawk Canadian actor and He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the Lone Ranger in the long-running American western television series "The Lone Ranger". Silverheels was born Harold Preston Smith in Canada, on the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hagersville, Ontario. He was a grandson of Mohawk Chief A.G. Smith and Mary Wedge, and one of the 11 children of Captain Alexander George Edwin Smith, MC, Cayuga, and his wife Mabel Phoebe Doxtater, also
Jay Garner (actor) Jay Garner (actor) Jay Garner (January 17, 1929 – January 21, 2011), born James H. Garner Jr., was an American actor. Born James H. Garner Jr. in 1929 in Sewanee, Tennessee, he graduated from the University of Tennessee and moved to Atlanta, where he worked in radio and began acting, he changed his first name to Jay upon entering Actors Equity as there was already a James Garner in the union. Garner was best known to theatre audiences for his diverse character roles, including the "side-stepping" Governor of Texas in the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas". He debuted