IRON EYES CODY (DECEASED) SIGNED 8X10 POSED WITH ROY ROGERS JSA COA #N38814

Pictured here with the world famous Roy Rogers! ORIGINAL Autograph 8 x 10 EXCELLENT SIGNATURE QUALITY AUTHENTICATED BY JSA (JAMES SPENCE AUTHENTICATION) Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti April 3, 1904 January 4, 1999) was an American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films.[1] He also played an Indian shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television commercials, "Keep America Beautiful".[2] In 1996, Cody's half-sister said that he was actually of Italian ancestry, but he denied it Cody began acting in the early 1930s. He worked in film and television until his death. Like many other Native impersonators, Cody claimed Cherokee-Cree ancestry, also naming several other tribes and frequently changed his place of birth. He appeared to live as if he were of indigenous Native American descent, on and off the screen, and was said to have supported Native American causes. He appeared in more than 200 films, including The Big Trail (1930), with John Wayne; The Scarlet Letter (1934), with Colleen Moore; Sitting Bull (1954), as Crazy Horse; The Light in the Forest (1958) as Cuyloga; The Great Sioux Massacre (1965), with Joseph Cotten; Nevada Smith (1966), with Steve McQueen; A Man Called Horse (1970), with Richard Harris; and Ernest Goes to Camp (1987), as Chief St. Cloud. In 1953, he appeared twice as Chief Big Cloud in Duncan Renaldo's syndicated television series, The Cisco Kid. He guest starred on the NBC western series, The Restless Gun, starring John Payne, and The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. In 1961, he played the title role in "The Burying of Sammy Hart" on the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. Cody was widely seen in his "crying chief" role in the "Keep America Beautiful" public service announcements (PSA) in the early 1970s.[4] The environmental commercial showed Cody dressed as a Native American, shedding a tear after trash is thrown from the window of a car and it lands at his feet. The announcer, William Conrad, says: "People start pollution; people can stop it." The Joni Mitchell song "Lakota," from the 1988 album, Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm, features Cody's chanting.He made a cameo appearance in the 1990 film Spirit of '76.