Rodney A. Grant
Biography: Rodney Arnold Grant (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor. Grant, a Native American, was raised on the Omaha Reservation in Macy, Nebraska. He is probably most well known for his role as "Wind In His Hair" in the 1990 film Dances with Wolves. He has also appeared in other films such as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Wild Wild West, Geronimo: An American Legend, White Wolves III: Cry of the White Wolf, Wagons East!, The Substitute, War Party, and Powwow Highway. In television, he played the part of "Chingachgook" in the series Hawkeye that aired in 1994-1995. He has also had guest roles in a television series such as Due South, Two, and the Stargate SG-1 episode "Spirits". He also portrayed the famous warrior Crazy Horse in the 1991 television movie Son of the Morning Star. Grant is a member of the Omaha tribe of Nebraska. He has been very active in youth activities and had served on the Native American Advisory Board for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He has five grown children, three from a previous marriage, and two from previous relationships. He currently resides in southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rodney A. Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: March 09, 1959
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Dances with Wolves
1990-03-30
Dances with Wolves
Overview: Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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Ghosts of Mars
2001-08-24
Ghosts of Mars
Overview: In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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The Staircase
1998-04-12
The Staircase
Overview: A mysterious carpenter appears just as a church is in need of repair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-12
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Wagons East!
1994-08-16
Wagons East!
Overview: After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide they cannot live in their current situation in the west. They hire a grizzled alcoholic wagon master by the name of James Harlow to take them on a journey back to their hometowns in the East.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-16
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F.T.W.
1994-06-17
F.T.W.
Overview: A man and a woman running from their pasts are trapped on a collision course with the future. Frank T. Wells, a newly-released ex-con looking for a few acres of freedom on the rodeo circuit. Scarlett Stuart, a wild beautiful woman on the run from a bank robbery gone desperately wrong. Together they will explore their own personal vision of the American Dream.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-17
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Don't Come Knocking
2005-08-25
Don't Come Knocking
Overview: Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-25
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997-07-27
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Overview: Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-27
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Two for Texas
1998-01-18
Two for Texas
Overview: Kris Kristofferson and Scott Bairstow are hunted fugitives from a Louisiana prison camp who come Two for Texas when they opt to lose themselves in a crowd by joining Sam Houston's Texas Volunteer Army.
Genres: Western Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-18
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Shouting Secrets
2011-11-10
Shouting Secrets
Overview: Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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White Wolves III - Cry of the White Wolf
2000-06-13
White Wolves III - Cry of the White Wolf
Overview: Two teenagers are put to the test when the plane taking them to a wilderness boot camp for juvenile offenders crashes into the vast sierra. Their pilot, Quentin, injured and ununable to make the dangerous journey, teaches them the ways of his ancient people and to have faith in the spirit of the white wolf as well as themselves.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-13
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The Jack Bull
1999-04-17
The Jack Bull
Overview: The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy. When Judge Wilkins throws out Myrl's complaint, the war he wages to force Ballard to nurse the emaciated animals back to health escalates into a vigilante manhunt, murder and the possible defeat of Wyoming's bid for statehood.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-17
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The Substitute
1996-04-19
The Substitute
Overview: When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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The Doors
1991-03-01
The Doors
Overview: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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War Party
1988-09-15
War Party
Overview: One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't supposed to fight back....
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-15
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Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
1993-01-30
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Overview: Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laundry? This one-hour special features dozens of space professionals---from astronauts and life systems engineers to space suit designers, interior decorators and the "Lunar Lettuce Man." A moving story concerning Jaime Escalante and one of his students (Raymond Cruz) is interwoven with imaginative vignettes that explore the humor and drama of day-to-day life away from Earth. A documentary AND fantasy. Shot on video and on film. Guest stars include Kathy Bates, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Pat Morita, Esai Morales, and Billy Bob Thornton.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-30
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Just a Dream
2002-03-16
Just a Dream
Overview: Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-16
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Geronimo: An American Legend
1993-12-10
Geronimo: An American Legend
Overview: The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
Genres: Western History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-10
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Lakota Moon
1999-05-22
Lakota Moon
Overview: This movie depicts the life of a small Indian tribe, in a time shortly before the white men became a threat. In the focus of the story is the young Skywalker, who woos cute Morning Sun, but can't seem to convince her father of his qualities. When the outcast Kayowa attack the camp, he hopes for an opportunity to impress him.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
1997-01-16
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
Overview: Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with Tokalah and her previous existence as the wife of farmer Daniel Morgan.
Genres: Western Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-16
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Powwow Highway
1989-02-24
Powwow Highway
Overview: Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-24
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Vanishing Point
1997-01-07
Vanishing Point
Overview: When his wife goes into a troubled labor while he is on the road over 1200 miles away James Kowalski, an ex race car driver and a former Army Ranger, attempts to elude police while trying to get home. After numerous chases he turns into a Native American reservation and reflects on his life, and his wife. He heads off to break through a police roadblock.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-07
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Wild Wild West
1999-06-30
Wild Wild West
Overview: Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-30
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The Killing Grounds
1998-07-21
The Killing Grounds
Overview: After the fatal crash of a small airplane in the high Sierras, six greedy strangers clash over a fortune in stolen gold. The torturous trip down the mountainside becomes a frightening ordeal as each has his own plans for the gold.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-21
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The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990-11-15
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
Overview: A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-15
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Dark Blood
2012-09-27
Dark Blood
Overview: Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain magical powers. Boy's solitude is interrupted when a Hollywood jet-set couple who are travelling across the desert become stranded after their car breaks down. The couple are rescued by Boy, who then holds them prisoner because of his desire for the woman and his ambition to create a better world with her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-27
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