Rodd Redwing (August 24, 1904 – May 29, 1971), was a Native American

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 actor, noted for being the world’s greatest quick-draw artist with six-guns. He holds the record with two-tenths of a second, reaching for his six-gun, pulling it out of the holster, and firing.

Biography

A Chickasaw

Chickasaw

The Chickasaw are Native American people originally from the region that would become the Southeastern United States...

, Redwing was one of the top gun, knife, tomahawk, and whip instructors in Hollywood. After coming to films for Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...

 in 1931's The Squaw Man, he became gun handling coach to Alan Ladd

Alan Ladd

-Early life:Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He was the only child of Ina Raleigh Ladd and Alan Ladd, Sr. He was of English ancestry. His father died when he was four, and his mother relocated to Oklahoma City where she married Jim Beavers, a housepainter...

, Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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, Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster

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, Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford

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, Richard Widmark

Richard Widmark

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, Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

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, Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

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, Dean Martin

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, Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

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 and scores more.

Between 1951 and 1967, he appeared in upwards of thirteen television programs.

Film credits

• Red Sun
  Red Sun
  Red Sun is a Western film, one of few with an international cast. It stars U.S.-born actor Charles Bronson, Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune, French actor Alain Delon and Swiss actress Ursula Andress. It was filmed in Spain by the British director Terence Young. It was released in Europe in 1971 and...
  
  (1971)
• Charro!
  Charro!
  Charro! is a 1969 Western film starring Elvis Presley. It was his only role that didn't feature him singing on-screen, and is the only Presley film to feature no songs at all except for the main title theme. It also features a bearded Presley for the first and last time in any of his films.The film...
  
  (1969)
• Shalako
  Shalako (film)
  Shalako is a 1968 British western film directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot. Stephen Boyd portrayed a classic western villain. Jack Hawkins played an upper class Englishman abroad in the "new" country...
  
  (1968)
• Johnny Reno
  Johnny Reno
  Johnny Reno is a 1966 American western film made by A.C. Lyles Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by R.G. Springsteen, produced by A.C. Lyles, with a screenplay by Andrew Craddock, Steve Fisher and A.C...
  
  (1966)
• Sergeants 3 (1962)
• One-Eyed Jacks
  One-Eyed Jacks
  One-Eyed Jacks, a 1961 Western, is the only film directed by actor Marlon Brando, who also played its lead character, Rio.The film was originally to be directed by Stanley Kubrick and Sam Peckinpah...
  
  (1961)
• Flaming Star
  Flaming Star
  Flaming Star is a 1960 western film starring Elvis Presley, based on the book Flaming Lance by Clair Huffaker. Critics agreed that Presley gave one of his best acting performances as the mixed-blood "Pacer Burton", a dramatic role. The film was directed by Don Siegel, and had a working title of...
  
  (1960)
• Heller in Pink Tights
  Heller in Pink Tights
  Heller In Pink Tights is a 1960 Technicolor western film adapted from Louis L'Amour's novel, Heller with a Gun. It stars Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn and was directed by George Cukor....
  
  (1960)
• The Flame Barrier (1958)
• Copper Sky (1957)
• Jaguar (1956)
• The Ten Commandments
  The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
  The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic film that dramatized the biblical story of the Exodus, in which the Hebrew-born Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince, becomes the deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. The film, released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956, was directed by...
  
  (1956)
• The Mole People
  The Mole People
  -Plot:The film begins with a narration by Dr. Frank Baxter, an English professor at the University of Southern California, explaining the premise of the movie and its basis in reality...
  
  (1956)
• Cattle Queen of Montana
  Cattle Queen of Montana
  Cattle Queen of Montana is a 1954 American Western film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. The supporting cast includes Jack Elam, Chubby Johnson, and Morris Ankrum, and the movie was directed by Allan Dwan.-Plot:...
  
  (1954)
• Creature From the Black Lagoon
  Creature from the Black Lagoon
  Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell. The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes...
  
  (1954)
• Elephant Walk
  Elephant Walk
  Elephant Walk is a 1954 Paramount Pictures film, directed by William Dieterle, and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch and Abraham Sofaer....
  
  (1954)
• The Naked Jungle
  The Naked Jungle
  The Naked Jungle is a 1954 film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. Telling the story of an attack of army ants on a Peruvian cocoa plantation, it was based on the short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson.-Plot:As the film opens, Joanna , a...
  
  (1953)
• Conquest of Cochise (1953)
• Flight to Tangier (1953)
• Saginaw Trail (1953)
• Winning of the West (1953)
• Last of the Comanches (1952)
• The Pathfinder (1952)
• Rancho Notorious
  Rancho Notorious
  Rancho Notorious is a 1952 Western shot in Technicolor, directed by Fritz Lang and starring Marlene Dietrich as the matron of a criminal hideout called Chuck-a-Luck...
  
  (1952)
• Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952)
• Hellgate (1952)
• Little Big Horn (1951)
• Kim
  Kim (film)
  Kim is a 1950 adventure film made in Technicolor by MGM. It was directed by Victor Saville and produced by Leon Gordon from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch, Leon Gordon and Richard Schayer, based on the classic novel of the same name by Rudyard Kipling....
  
  (1950)
• Song of India (1949)
• We Were Strangers
  We Were Strangers
  We Were Strangers is a 1949 adventure–drama film directed by John Huston and starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.The film, set in 1933, concerns a group of revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the Cuban regime...
  
  (1949)
• Apache Chief (1949)
• Key Largo
  Key Largo (film)
  Key Largo is a 1948 film noir directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor...
  
  (1948)
• Intrigue (1947)
• The Last Round-Up
  The Last Round-Up
  The Last Round-Up is a 1934 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars Randolph Scott and Barbara Fritchie. -Cast:*Randolph Scott as Jim Cleve*Barbara Fritchie as Joan Randall*Monte Blue as Jack Kells*Fred Kohler as Sam Gulden...
  
  (1947)
• Out of the Depths (1946)
• Singin' in the Corn (1946)
• Objective, Burma!
  Objective, Burma!
  Objective, Burma! is an Oscar-nominated 1945 war film which was loosely based on the six month raid by Merrill's Marauders in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War...
  
  (1945)
• Rainbow Island (1944 film) (1944)
• Sonora Stagecoach (1944)
• The Story of Dr. Wassell
  The Story of Dr. Wassell
  The Story of Dr. Wassell is a Technicolor World War II film set in the Dutch East Indies, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, and Dennis O'Keefe. It is based on the wartime activities of US Navy Doctor Corydon M...
  
  (1944)

Death

Redwing died at age of 66, after appearing in The Red Sun. He suffered a heart attack aboard the flight from Spain and died 35 minutes later, just before the plane landed in Los Angeles. His ashes were urned in Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, originally called Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California. It is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood...

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