Chief Tahachee Net Worth

July 2024 · 2 minute read


Chief Tahachee net worth is
$5 Million

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Chief Tahachee (born Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert, March 4, 1904 – June 9, 1978) was an Old Settler Cherokee Indian who was an author, a stage actor, a film extra, and a vaudeville performer.Chief Tahachee wrote four books: Poems of Dreams (1942), Drifting Sands (1950), An American Indian Climb Toward Truth & Wisdom (1955), and The Rough and Rowdy Ways of an American Indian Cowboy (1957). Poems of Dreams was his most popular and he renewed the copyright on it October 1972.Chief Tahachee appeared as a film extra in several films produced from the 1920s to the 1960s, including westerns, film noir, drama, and historical sagas. His first film appearance was in a silent film, The Last of the Mohicans, in 1920 at the age of 16.He was married seven times, fathered ten children, and died June 9, 1978 in San Gabriel, California of a heart attack. 
Net Worth$5 Million
Date Of BirthMarch 4, 1904
Died1978-06-09
Place Of BirthJames Mill, Arkansas, USA
Height6' 4½" (1.94 m)
OccupationActor, author
ProfessionActor, author
NicknamesChief Tahachee, Tahachee, Chief
Star SignPisces
#Fact
1From 1923 through 1924, Chief Tahachee performed as a contortionist in Vaudeville as a warm-up act on the Los Angeles Orpheum Circuit using the name Chief Buffalo Nickel.
2From 1950 to 1953, Chief Tahachee was a spokesman for the Rath Packing Company of Waterloo, Iowa and promoted their meat products primarily in the greater Los Angeles area. He became known locally as The Rath Indian.
3In 1936, Chief Tahachee was one of the founders and a charter member of the Indian Actors' Association (IAA). The IAA was organized by American Indian actors to combat use of non-Indian's by some studios, and of engaging pseudo-American Indians for the faking of American Indian roles and/or fabricating American Indian dialects. The IAA was eventually absorbed by the Screen Actors Guild.
4In 1926, Chief Tahachee was one of the founders and a charter member of the War Paint Club (WPC). The WPC was organized by American Indian actors in Hollywood, California, to protect the rights of American Indian actors and to establish a legitimate pool of authentic American Indian actors for work in motion pictures. The WPC also worked to keep American Indian characters portrayed on the silver screen from being defamed and/or ridiculed. The WPC was eventually absorbed by the Indian Actors' Association (IAA).

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