John Trudell
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John Trudell was an American Indian author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After his pregnant wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed in 1979 in a fire at the home of his parents-in-law on the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada, Trudell turned to writing, music and film as a second career. He acted in three films in the 1990s. The documentary Trudell (2005) was made about him and his life as an activist and artist.
Known for
Credits
Extreme Measures (1996)
as Tony
Thunderheart (1992)
as Jimmy Looks Twice
On Deadly Ground (1994)
as Johnny Redfeather
A Thousand Roads (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
The 11th Hour (2007)
as Self
Trudell (2005)
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Dreamkeeper (2003)
as Coyote
Smoke Signals (1998)
as Randy Peone
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
as Self
Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Powwow Highway (1989)
as Louie Short Hair
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson (1999)
as Self - Santee Sioux
Incident at Oglala (1992)
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
Reel Injun (2010)
as Self
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie (2005)
as Black Hawk (voice)
Dark Blood (2012)
as Indian #2
No More Smoke Signals (2009)
as self
Taking Alcatraz (2015)
as Self (archive footage)