Chief Standing Bear

Chief Standing Bear was born on Dec 01, 1868 in USA. Chief Standing Bear's big-screen debut came with White Oak directed by Lambert Hillyer in 1921, strarring Chief Long Knife (as Luther Standing Bear).

Luther Standing Bear, born Plenty Kill, was a Oglala Lakota Native American writer and actor, and on of the first students of the controversial Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Pennsylvania. He began his entertainment career as an interpreter, dancer, and horseback rider with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which traveled the country at the turn of the century. From 1910 to the 1930s he starred in several western films. He is the author of My People the Sioux (1928), Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933), and Stories of the Sioux (1934).