willard parker played tonto in the original lone ranger.
who played tonto in the original lone ranger?
willard parker
bullet::::- "the black dakotas" (1954) - black buffalo





























bullet::::- "four guns to the border" (1954) - yaqui





























bullet::::- "masterson of kansas" (1954) - yellow hawk





























bullet::::- "the lone ranger rides again" (1955, tv movie) - tonto





























bullet::::- "the lone ranger story" (1955) - tonto





























bullet::::- "the vanishing american" (1955) - beeteia





























bullet::::- "the lone ranger" (1956) - tonto





























bullet::::- "walk the proud land" (1956) - geronimo





























bullet::::- "return to warbow" (1958) - indian joe





























bullet::::- "the lone ranger and the lost city of gold" (1958) - tonto





























bullet::::- "alias jesse james" (1959) - tonto (uncredited)
jay silverheels
tonto made his first appearance on the 11th episode of the radio show "the lone ranger". two conflicting origin stories have been given for the character tonto and how he came to work with the lone ranger. as originally presented, in the december 7, 1938, radio broadcast, reid had already been well established as the lone ranger when he met tonto. in that episode cactus pete, a friend of the lone ranger's, tells the story of how the masked man and tonto first met. according to that tale, tonto had been caught in the explosion when two men dynamited a gold mine they were working. one of the men wanted to kill the wounded tonto, but the lone ranger arrived on the scene and made him administer first aid. the miner subsequently decided to keep tonto around, intending to make him the fall guy when he would later murder his partner. the lone ranger foiled both the attempted murder and the framing. no reason was given in the episode as to why tonto chose to travel with the lone ranger, rather than continue about his business.
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