# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chief-dan-george
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:55:46.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chief-dan-george"
name: "Chief Dan George"
slug: "chief-dan-george"
description: "Chief Dan George was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band whose Indian reserve is located on Burrard Inlet in the southeast area of the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He also was an actor, musician, poet and author. The Chief's best-known written work is My Heart Soars. As an actor, he is best remembered for portraying Old Lodge Skins opposite Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and for his role in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), as Lone Watie, opposite Clint Eastwood."
tagline: "Chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (1899-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chief_Dan_George_(1976).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1899-07-24"
deathDate: "1981-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.29
  momentum:             2.278587680121345
  historical:           21.99122266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313381/"
    handle:    "nm0313381"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump