John Trudell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 15, 1946, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Died
- December 8, 2015
- Movies
- 18
John Trudell was an American Indian author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
After his pregnant wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed in 1979 in a fire at the home of his parents-in-law on the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada, Trudell turned to writing, music and film as a second career. He acted in three films in the 1990s. The documentary Trudell (2005) was made about him and his life as an activist and artist.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2022 | Lakota Nation vs. United States | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World | Self |
| 2015 | Taking Alcatraz | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Dark Blood | Indian #2 |
| 2010 | Reel Injun | Self |
| 2009 | No More Smoke Signals | Self |
| 2007 | The 11th Hour | Self |
| 2005 | America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie | Black Hawk (voice) |
| 2005 | A Thousand Roads | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Trudell | Self / Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Dreamkeeper | Coyote |
| 1999 | Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson | Self - Santee Sioux |
| 1998 | Smoke Signals | Randy Peone |
| 1996 | Extreme Measures | Tony |
| 1994 | On Deadly Ground | Johnny Redfeather |
| 1992 | Incident at Oglala | Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement |
| 1992 | Thunderheart | Jimmy Looks Twice |
| 1989 | Powwow Highway | Louie Short Hair |
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