Acting · Omaha, Nebraska, USA · Born February 15, 1946
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.
TVVow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
2024
as Self - AIM National Chairman (archive footage)
MovieLakota Nation vs. United States
2022
as Self (archive footage)
MovieRumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2017
as Self
MovieTaking Alcatraz
2015
as Self (archive footage)
MovieDark Blood
2012
as Indian #2
MovieReel Injun
2010
as Self
MovieNo More Smoke Signals
2009
as self
MovieThe 11th Hour
2007
as Self
MovieAmerica's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
2005
as Black Hawk (voice)
MovieA Thousand Roads
2005
as Narrator (voice)
MovieTrudell
2005
as Self / Narrator (voice)
MovieDreamkeeper
2003
as Coyote
TVDreamkeeper
2003
as Coyote
MovieMaking a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
1999
as Self - Santee Sioux
MovieSmoke Signals
1998
as Randy Peone
MovieExtreme Measures
1996
as Tony
TVThe West
1996
as Self
MovieOn Deadly Ground
1994
as Johnny Redfeather
MovieIncident at Oglala
1992
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
MovieThunderheart
1992
as Jimmy Looks Twice
MoviePowwow Highway
1989
as Louie Short Hair
