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Saginaw Grant

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He was not a well-known actor, this is the truth. But in an industry where Native American performers are rare, Saginaw Grant managed to have a presence, albeit fleeting, in movies and series with iconic actors like Johnny Depp, Anthony Hopkins and Bryan Cranston. Saginaw Grant has passed away at the age of 85 of natural causes.

Saginaw Grant, born in 1936 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, was very proud of his origins, and was in fact a hereditary chief of the Sac & Fox tribe raised in the traditions of the medicine men, though his agent Lani Carmichael notes that in addition to this imprint He was a Christian and a man of faith.

Of course, his is not a typical acting career, since his first role came when he was over 50 years old in On the Warpath , where Franc Roddam showed the Indian wars between the United States cavalry and the Blackfoot in a way very original, on the occasion of the centenary, history repeated itself. He also appeared with cameo appearances in the 1990s series The Young Indiana Jones Adventures and Baywatch .

Alongside an elderly biker played by Anthony Hopkins , he could be seen in Burt Munro. A dream, a legend , but the usual thing was that he played a Native American, as was the case in The Lone Ranger , which starred Johnny Depp , Gray Owl with Pierce Brosnan and the series Breaking Bad , where he appeared in an episode of the fifth season.

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