Date of birth: 1947-12-17
Place of birth: Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Wesley Studie , وس استودی
Wesley "Wes" Studi (born December 17, 1947) is an American Cherokee actor, who has earned notability for his portrayals of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in well-received Academy Award-winning films, such as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the award-winning Geronimo: An American Legend and the Academy Award-nominated film The New World (2005). He most recently portrayed General Linus Abner (an analogue to the biblical Abner) in the NBC series Kings, and Eytukan in James Cameron's box office blockbuster Avatar.
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Dusty and Joe are brothers as different as can be. Dusty, a confident bronco rider and ladies' man,
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A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
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A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the
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Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison a
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Interviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film.
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A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it,
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In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native
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Ronnie BoDean is a larger-than-life "toughman" suffering from a mean hangover. When his neighbor is
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When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova
1993-12-10
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not al
Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired
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Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convict
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Despite what would seem to be a flourishing career, most recently playing Kermit on Showtime's Shame
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Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
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Two families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle saves t
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The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visio
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Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
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In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but
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A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who
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This version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins wit
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After being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his family a
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Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders a
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A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Che
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Three young people drive to Mexico to scatter their friend's ashes, they are forced to confront thei
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Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from
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The 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of Pon
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A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Me
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When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue gener
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As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found
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When world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he
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In the New Mexico desert, pie equals love. Kathy Knapp left her privileged life to bake pie in dusty
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From acclaimed director Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American film
2007-05-27
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t
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Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t
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The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation
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A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangste
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While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands,
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Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However,
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A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Holly
2015-11-06
A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in w
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A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that
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Jake, a high schooler on the autistic spectrum, feels disillusioned with the world. When he meets Al
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Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one
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Seduced by the ghost of a Civil War soldier, Barbara Haughton creates a love that is undying.
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A sound mixer on a low-budget sci-fi western movie falls in love with an untalented violinist and pr
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In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response t
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His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum
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Explore America’s darkest period: President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the forc
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The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era
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