# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chief-thunderbird
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:54:43.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chief-thunderbird"
name: "Chief Thunderbird"
slug: "chief-thunderbird"
description: "Richard Davis Thunderbird was a Native American actor of Cheyenne descent known as Chief Thunderbird. He appeared in twenty films but was credited only in major films such as Wild West Days (1937), For the Service (1936), Silly Billies (1936), Custer's Last Stand (1936), Annie Oakley (1935), Cyclone of the Saddle (1935), Laughing Boy (1934), and Heroes of the West (1932)."
tagline: "Native American actor (1866-1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chief_Thunderbird_in_Battling_with_Buffalo_Bill.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1866-08-06"
deathDate: "1946-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.24
  momentum:             1.971830985915493
  historical:           5.075846666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204352/"
    handle:    "nm0204352"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Thunderbird"
    title: "Chief Thunderbird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Thunderbird"
    title: "Chief Thunderbird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AB%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "رئيس ثندربيرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Thunderbird"
    title: "Chief Thunderbird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%81_%D8%AA%DA%BE%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%88"
    title: "چیف تھنڈر برڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22017418"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1157735"
    title: "Chief Thunderbird"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump