Saginaw Grant

Saginaw Grant

Born: July 20, 1936
Died: July 27, 2021
in Pawnee, OK
Saginaw Morgan Grant (July 20, 1936 – July 27, 2021) was a Native American character actor. He appeared in The Lone Ranger, The World's Fastest Indian, Community, and Breaking Bad and was a musician, pow wow dancer, motivational speaker and the Hereditary Chief of the Sac and Fox Nation.

Movies for Saginaw Grant...

Valley of the Gods
Title: Valley of the Gods
Character: Tall Bitter West
Released: September 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A mix of fantasy and sci-fi, the film entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer, creating a fascinating, mysterious and idiosyncratic vision of America.
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The Ridiculous 6
Title: The Ridiculous 6
Character: Screaming Eagle
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.
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Wind Walkers
Title: Wind Walkers
Character: Native Elder
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: Movie
A group of friends and family descend into the Everglades swamplands for their annual hunting trip only to discover that they are the ones being hunted. A malevolent entity is tracking them and they begin to realise one of their party may be possessed by something brought home from a tour of duty in the Middle East – a demon of war so horrible and deadly they are unaware of its devilish presence. Or are they facing something even more unspeakable, a legendary Native American curse about to unleash its dreadful legacy of thirsting for colonial revenge by claiming more souls?
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Medicine of the Wolf
Title: Medicine of the Wolf
Character: Himself
Released: March 26, 2015
Type: Movie
After 40 years of protection, Grey wolves were recently de-listed federally from endangered species act and their fate was handed over to state legislatures. What ensued was a 'push to hunt' in wolf country across the United States. Filmmaker Julia Huffman travels to Minnesota and into wolf country to pursue the deep and intrinsic value of brother wolf and our forgotten promise to him.
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The Lone Ranger
Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Chief Big Bear
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
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Winter in the Blood
Title: Winter in the Blood
Character: Yellow Calf
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching for is his own uncertain identity and a glimpse of salvation.
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Title: Veep
Character: Marjorie's Grandpa
Released: April 22, 2012
Type: TV
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
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Maneater
Title: Maneater
Character: Stanley Hipp
Released: October 30, 2009
Type: Movie
A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
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Title: The League
Character: Sam
Released: October 29, 2009
Type: TV
The League is an American sitcom and semi-improvised comedy about a about a fantasy football league and its members and their everyday lives.
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Title: Community
Character: Chief Blue Sky
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.
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Title: Breaking Bad
Character: Native American Man
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: TV
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
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Beyond The Quest
Title: Beyond The Quest
Character: Apparition
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A young immigrant seeking his fortune and new life in America begins to unlock secrets of his forgotten past in unexpected ways thanks to a spiritual connection with a distant stranger he never knew existed. Adam grew up on a small farm in the mountains of communist Poland. Abandoned by his parents at a young age he was raised by a kind, ever-loving woman named Julia Baron. Confronted with the astounding lack of opportunity facing everyone, Adam leaves his home life in search of a better life. With some difficulty getting out of the country, including a threat from his girl friend to turn him in for treason, he arrives in America to find both what he did- and did not- expect. Upon his arrival he finds a limo waiting for him, driven by a mysterious person who takes him on a cross country tripwithout any apparent destination.
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The World's Fastest Indian
Title: The World's Fastest Indian
Character: Jake
Released: October 12, 2005
Type: Movie
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
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Title: My Name Is Earl
Character: Dakota
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: TV
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.
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The Fallen Ones
Title: The Fallen Ones
Character: Joseph
Released: May 14, 2005
Type: Movie
An archaeologist finds the mummified remains of a giant--the offspring of a Fallen Angel and a human woman. Now he has to stop the terror he has unleashed.
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Skinwalkers
Title: Skinwalkers
Character: Wilson Sam
Released: November 2, 2002
Type: Movie
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
Character: Grey Cloud
Released: October 27, 1999
Type: Movie
In the twentieth film in the series, in 1950's Wyoming, middle-aged Indiana Jones and his friend Grey Cloud have obtained a sacred ceremonial pipe and end up in a snow-logged cabin. When Jones uncovers a soprano sax, he is reminded of his college days in 1920's Chicago, waiting tables at Colosimo's restaurant and becoming obsessed with Jazz music. When Colosimo was murdered, young Indy got caught up in the investigation together with his roommate Eliot Ness and young reporter Ernest Hemingway.
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Purgatory
Title: Purgatory
Character: Gatekeeper
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: Movie
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven... or screw up and go to Hell.
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
Title: Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
Character: Chief Luta
Released: January 16, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Ancient Prophecies II: Countdown to Doomsday
Title: Ancient Prophecies II: Countdown to Doomsday
Character: Pawnee Shaman
Released: November 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Among the topics explored are the predictions of ancient Greek oracles, the Jewish Kabbalah and the prophecies of modern-day American seer, Paul Solomon. Other segments focus on Laurie and Leonard Toye’s earth-changes map and the phenomenon of Virgin Mary visitations, as reported by individuals and groups in various cultures.
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Title: Harts of the West
Character: Auggie
Released: September 25, 1993
Type: TV
Harts of the West is an American Western/comedy–drama series starring Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, set on a dude ranch in Nevada. The series aired on CBS from September 1993, to June 1994.
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Title: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Character: Grey Cloud
Released: March 4, 1992
Type: TV
At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.
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War Party
Title: War Party
Character: Freddie Man Wolf
Released: September 15, 1988
Type: Movie
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....
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The Red Man's View
Title: The Red Man's View
Character: Chief Great Eagle
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Epic remake of a Native American film originally done 100 years ago about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the US Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of 'savages' exterminating all Native Americans. But there is hope when the band find a new beginning.