Eric Schweig

Eric Schweig

Born: June 19, 1967
in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada
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Eric Schweig (born Ray Dean Thrasher on 19 June 1967  ) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Chingachgook's son Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans (1992).

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Title: Little Bird
Character: Asin
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: TV
As part of a racist government policy now known as the Sixties Scoop, Bezhig Little Bird is removed from her home in Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan and adopted into a Montréal Jewish family at the age of five, becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and is willing to sacrifice everything to find them.
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Brother, I Cry
Title: Brother, I Cry
Character: Dean
Released: September 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Jon, a young First Nations man, is struggling to overcome addiction and to avoid the multiple warrants out on him. But he has several strong women in his corner: his girlfriend, his sister, his mother, and his unborn daughter, they are all hoping he can master his demons and find peace.
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The Grizzlies
Title: The Grizzlies
Character: Harry
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
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Title: The Flash
Character: General Cloud
Released: October 7, 2014
Type: TV
After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.
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Maïna
Title: Maïna
Character: Quujuuq
Released: September 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his clan and the clan of "Men of the Land of Ice." Following this confrontation, Maïna chooses a mission that will change her life. To fulfill the promise that she has made to her friend Matsii on her deathbed, she embarked on the trail of their enemies to deliver Nipki, a 11 year old boy that the Inuit have captured. But she was also taken as prisoner by Natak, the leader of the Inuit group, and forcibly taken to the Land of Ice.
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Title: Elementary
Character: Leon Moody
Released: September 27, 2012
Type: TV
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
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Title: Longmire
Character: Dolan Lone Elk
Released: June 3, 2012
Type: TV
A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.
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Casino Jack
Title: Casino Jack
Character: Chief Poncho
Released: September 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
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Kissed by Lightning
Title: Kissed by Lightning
Character: Bug a.k.a. Solomon King
Released: October 31, 2009
Type: Movie
Mavis Dogblood is a Mohawk painter from Canada haunted by the tragic death of her husband, who was hit by lightning. She paints the stories he used to tell her, but she can’t come to grips with her loss. It is only after she drives to New York City for an art opening, traveling across what were her ancestors’ tribal lands, that Mavis reconciles herself to her new life.
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Title: Cashing In
Character: Mathew Tommy
Released: April 15, 2009
Type: TV
Set on Stonewalker First Nation, nestled comfortably beside an affluent beach community in Southern Manitoba.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Character: Gall
Released: May 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
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Not Like Everyone Else
Title: Not Like Everyone Else
Character: Tim Blackbear
Released: July 10, 2006
Type: Movie
A teenager fights to clear her name after her small Oklahoma town mistakenly assumes she is practicing witchcraft. Based on a true story.
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One Dead Indian
Title: One Dead Indian
Character: Sam George
Released: January 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Stoney Point Natives assemble at Ipperwash Provincial Park for what began as a peaceful protest.
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Mr. Soul
Title: Mr. Soul
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A serial killer preys on prostitutes from the mean streets of a small, mid-west city as the police turn a blind eye. With an insatiable sexual appetite, the killer brutalizes his victims and leaves their bodies at Moon Lake outside of town. A voice inside the killer's head commands him to kill, his victims beg for death. John Martin Crawford is only too happy to oblige. But Moon Lake happens to be a spiritual holy ground for the local Native Americans, and soon the victims' ghosts are haunting both family members and complete strangers in desperate pleas for justice so their souls may rest. A supernatural story that reminds us the dead are not powerless.
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It Waits
Title: It Waits
Character: Joseph Riverwind
Released: November 10, 2005
Type: Movie
A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Sergeant 'Sarge' Joe Phillips
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
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Title: Into the West
Character: Sitting Bull
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: TV
The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890.
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Mr. Barrington
Title: Mr. Barrington
Released: December 12, 2003
Type: Movie
This chicken is a hot introvert who is wooed by a charming creep then weird stuff happens.
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The Missing
Title: The Missing
Character: Pesh-Chidin / El Brujo
Released: November 26, 2003
Type: Movie
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
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Cowboys & Indians
Title: Cowboys & Indians
Character: Harry Wood
Released: October 5, 2003
Type: Movie
A police constable guns down a First Nations chief one snow night in Winnipeg, a tragedy that will impact the community for years to come.
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Skins
Title: Skins
Character: Rudy Yellow Lodge
Released: September 27, 2002
Type: Movie
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
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Title: Hollywood Off-Ramp
Released: June 4, 2000
Type: TV
A darkly comic anthology that skewers Tinseltown and its sinners in tales of murder, mystery and the supernatural.
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Big Eden
Title: Big Eden
Character: Pike Dexter
Released: April 18, 2000
Type: Movie
Henry Hart is a young gay artist living in New York City. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry puts his career on hold and returns home to the small town of Big Eden, Montana, to care for him. While there, Henry hopes to strike up a romance with Dean Stewart, his high-school best friend for whom he still has feelings. But he's surprised when he finds that Pike, a quiet Native American who owns the local general store, may have a crush on him.
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Title: Dead Man's Walk
Character: Buffalo Hump
Released: May 12, 1996
Type: TV
The final chapter of Larry McMurty's popular and critically acclaimed mini-series, 'Lonesome Dove', recounting the thrilling first adventure of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call. Great Cast!
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Tom and Huck
Title: Tom and Huck
Character: Injun Joe
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.
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Follow The River
Title: Follow The River
Character: Wildcat
Released: April 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.
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Title: 500 Nations
Released: April 20, 1995
Type: TV
500 Nations is an eight-part documentary on the Native Americans of North and Central America. It documents from pre-Columbian to the end of the 19th century. Much of the information comes from text, eyewitnesses, pictorials, and computer graphics. The series was hosted by Kevin Costner, narrated by Gregory Harrison, and directed by Jack Leustig. It included the voice talents of Eric Schweig, Gordon Tootoosis, Wes Studi, Cástulo Guerra, Tony Plana, Edward James Olmos, Patrick Stewart, Gary Farmer, Tom Jackson, Tantoo Cardinal, Dante Basco, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Tim Bottoms, Michael Horse, Graham Greene, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Amy Madigan, Frank Salsedo, and Kurtwood Smith. The series was written by Jack Leustig, Roberta Grossman, Lee Miller, and W. T. Morgan, with Dr. John M. D. Pohl. "The truth is, we have a story worth talking about. We have a history worth celebrating. Long before the first Europeans arrived here, there were some 500 nations already in North America. They blanketed the continent from coast to coast, from Central America to the Arctic. There were tens of millions of people here, speaking over 300 languages. Many of them lived in beautiful cities, among the largest and most advanced in the world. In the coming hours, 500 Nations looks back on those ancient cultures, how they lived, and how many survived.... What you're about to see is what happened. It's not all that happened, and it's not always pleasant. We can't change that. We can't turn back the clock. But we can open our eyes and give the first nations of this land the recognition and respect they deserve: their rightful place in the history of the world." Kevin Costner
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Pontiac Moon
Title: Pontiac Moon
Character: Ernest Ironplume
Released: November 3, 1994
Type: Movie
An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. This while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Title: Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Character: Epenow
Released: October 28, 1994
Type: Movie
Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighboring tribe. Everything changes forever after a ship arrives from England, prospecting the region's commercial potential for the rich Sir George, who uses all his wealth and influence only for ever greater profit. When it returns, several Indians find themselves captives on board, including Squanto. The arrogant Christians consider themselves utterly superior to the 'heathen savages' and treat them as brutally as they do beasts. Squanto fights a bear in a circus, not understanding how men can be so cruel to that creature either, and manages a spectacular escape, but where must he go? He finds shelter and help in a rural monastery, where it takes his protector some effort to prevent the others considering the unknown as diabolical. In time sir George's men come looking for him most brutally...
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Title: Hawkeye
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Hawkeye is a television series, airing in syndication for one season during 1994-1995, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell. The series was filmed in North Vancouver and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Based on characters from the Leatherstocking Tales, a set of novels written by James Fenimore Cooper, the series takes place in 1755 Hudson Valley, New York during the French and Indian War. It follows the main character, Natty Bumppo, his Native American companion Chingachgook, trading post owner Elizabeth Shields and other people stationed at or living in the vicinity of Fort Bennington.
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The Broken Chain
Title: The Broken Chain
Character: Joseph Brandt / Theyendangea
Released: November 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
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For Love and Glory
Title: For Love and Glory
Character: Moses Moon
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
A failed pilot about a rich Virginia plantation owner and his family caught up in the American Civil War. He has a slave for a mistress, his older son is to marry a working class Irish girl and his younger son promotes the Confederacy.
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Heritage Minutes: Laura Secord
Title: Heritage Minutes: Laura Secord
Character: Mohawk #1
Released: April 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Uncas
Released: August 26, 1992
Type: Movie
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
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The Shaman's Source
Title: The Shaman's Source
Character: Robert Crow
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Three Ojibway Natives race to find a mystical ancestral spring before a ruthless industrialist claim it.
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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: Darrow
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.
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Used Mercs
Title: Used Mercs
Character: Mr. Riley
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Ex-mercenaries, who have seen and done horrible things, decide to retire and open up a used car lot. They sell a lemon to the wrong person, and find themselves reverting back to their old ways as mercenaries.
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The Tormenting
Title: The Tormenting
Character: Ruben Martin
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After Amy visits a property to see about opening her own health care center she is unaware of the Entity she brings back from the building. Unaware of her destiny that will change her worldview forever, as she begins to encounter a strange presence around her all the time. With each passing day she begins to come to terms that their lives are being controlled by this dark presence that she must confront if they are to survive.