Iron Eyes Cody
Cody was born April 3, 1904 in Kaplan, Louisiana.  His parents, Antonio de Corti and Francesca Selpietra, were both from Sicily in Italy.  Cody and his two of his brothers,  Joseph William Corti and Frank Henry Corti, went with their father to Texas and then California. Joseph William and Frank worked as actors for a while and then stopped acting.  Cody's mother remarried a man called Alton Abshire and had five more children.