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August Schellenberg

August Schellenberg

Birthday: 1936-07-25 | Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

August Schellenberg (born July 25, 1936) is a Canadian actor. His ethnicity is Mohawk and Swiss-German. He was trained at the National Theatre School of Canada. His first film was Rip-Off in 1971. In 1981, he did voices for the animated film Heavy Metal. During the late 90's he had major roles in Black Robe (Chomina), Free Willy and its sequels (Randolph Johnson), Iron Will (Ned Dodd), and TV film Crazy Horse (Sitting Bull). He went on to star as Chief Powhatan in the 2005 Terrence Malick's film The New World, alongside Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, and Christian Bale. He also had roles in Disney's Eight Below and The Green Chain. He has been quoted as saying that his favorite role was that of Sitting Bull in the film Crazy Horse, a character he reprised in the film version of the Dee Brown bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Schellenberg has been nominated for three Genie Awards and has won one (for Black Robe). Also nominated for two Gemini Awards, August Schellenberg won one (for the television movie "The Prodigal"). Description above from the Wikipedia article *, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2008
Our Spirits Don't Speak English

as    Narrator (voice)

2007
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

as    Sitting Bull

2006
Eight Below

as    Mindo

2005
The New World

as    Powhatan

2004
Going the Distance

as    Emile

2004
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins

as    Tecopa

2003
Dreamkeeper

as    Grandpa

1999
True Heart

as    Khonanesta

1997
Mission to Mir

as    Narrator

1997
Free Willy 3: The Rescue

as    Randolph Johnson

1996
Crazy Horse

as    Sitting Bull

1995
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

as    Randolph Johnson

1994
Iron Will

as    Ned Dodd

1994
Getting Gotti

as    Willie Boy Johnson

1993
Geronimo

as    Cochise

1993
Free Willy

as    Randolph Johnson

1991
Black Robe

as    Chomina

1986
Mark of Cain

as    Otto

1978
Power Play

as    Minh