---
name: "Chief Yowlachie"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chief-yowlachie"
fi1m_id: "chief-yowlachie"
imdb_id: "nm0950385"
tmdb_id: 30298
wikidata_id: "Q5096964"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 August 1891"
died: "7 March 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T04:20:56.111633+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Chief Yowlachie

## Identity

Chief Yowlachie

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chief-yowlachie
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chief-yowlachie
- **IMDb ID:** nm0950385
- **TMDB ID:** 30298
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5096964
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Yowlachie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5096964, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950385/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30298

Actor. Born 15 August 1891 in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, USA. Died 7 March 1966.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 August 1891, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, USA
- **Died:** 7 March 1966
- **Also known as:** Chief Yowlache, Chief Yowlachi, Daniel Simmons
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Yowlachie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5096964, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950385/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30298

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Red River*](https://film.one/film/red-river.md) (88)

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## Biography

Chief Yowlachie, born Daniel Simmons on 15 August 1891 on the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington, was a Native American actor of Puyallup heritage. He began his performing career as an opera singer before appearing in films from the mid-1920s, often in Westerns as Native American characters, both credited and uncredited.

He is known for his role as Quo in the 1948 Western *Red River*. Other film credits include *The Paleface* (1948) as Chief Yellow Feather, *Winchester '73* (1950), *Yellow Sky* (1948), *Annie Get Your Gun* (1950), *The Spirit of St. Louis* (1957) and *The FBI Story* (1959). He also appeared in television episodes of series such as *The Lone Ranger*, *The Virginian* and *The Tall Man*, and had a role as Geronimo in the series *Stories of the Century*.

Yowlachie died on 7 March 1966 in Los Angeles, California.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Red River* (1948), Fi1m 88, as Quo — [page](https://film.one/film/red-river.md)
- *The Paleface* (1948), Fi1m 68, as Chief Yellow Feather — [page](https://film.one/film/the-paleface.md)

## Complete filmography (60)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Virginian* (1962), series, as Indian Brave
- *Yellowstone Kelly* (1959), as Medicine Man (uncredited)
- *The FBI Story* (1959), as Harry Willowtree (uncredited)
- *The Spirit of St. Louis* (1957), as Indian (uncredited)
- *Hollywood or Bust* (1956), as Chief Running Water
- *Buffalo Bill Jr.* (1955), series, Actor
- *Gunfighters of the Northwest* (1954), as Chief Running Elk
- *Rose Marie* (1954), as Black Eagle
- *Stories of the Century* (1954), series, as Geronimo
- *The Pathfinder* (1952), as Eagle Feather
- *Son of Geronimo* (1952), as Geronimo [ch 15]
- *The Half-Breed* (1952), as Apache Chief (uncredited)
- *Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory* (1952), as Chief White Cloud
- *Warpath* (1951), as Chief
- *The Painted Hills* (1951), as Bald Eagle
- *Cherokee Uprising* (1950), as Gray Eagle
- *Winchester '73* (1950), as Indian at Rifle Shoot (uncredited) — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/winchester-73.md)
- *A Ticket to Tomahawk* (1950), as Pawnee
- *Annie Get Your Gun* (1950), as Little Horse (uncredited)
- *Kill the Umpire* (1950), as Indian (uncredited)
- *Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town* (1950), as Crowbar (uncredited)
- *Mrs. Mike* (1949), as Atenou
- *My Friend Irma* (1949), as Indian (uncredited)
- *The Lone Ranger* (1949), series, as Lame Bear
- *The Cowboy and the Indians* (1949), as Chief Long Arrow (uncredited)
- *Canadian Pacific* (1949), as Indian Chief (uncredited)
- *El Paso* (1949), Actor
- *Yellow Sky* (1948), as Colorado (uncredited)
- *The Paleface* (1948), as Chief Yellow Feather — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-paleface.md)
- *You Gotta Stay Happy* (1948), as Native American Man (Uncredited)
- *Red River* (1948), as Quo — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/red-river.md)
- *The Gallant Legion* (1948), as Indian Medicine Man
- *The Senator Was Indiscreet* (1947), as Indian
- *The Prairie* (1947), as Matoreeh
- *Bowery Buckaroos* (1947), as Big Chief Hi-Octane
- *The Hucksters* (1947), as Indian (uncredited)
- *Wild West* (1946), as Chief Black Fox
- *The Strange Woman* (1946), as Guide (uncredited)
- *Canyon Passage* (1946), as Indian Spokesman (uncredited)
- *Frontier Fury* (1943), as Captured Indian (uncredited)
- *Dawn on the Great Divide* (1942), as Indian
- *Ride 'Em Cowboy* (1941), as Chief Tomahawk (uncredited)
- *This Woman Is Mine* (1941), as Chief One-Eye Comcomly
- *White Eagle* (1941), as Chief Running Deer
- *North West Mounted Police* (1940), as Indian
- *Winners of the West* (1940), as Chief War Eagle
- *Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe* (1940), as King of the Rock People (uncredited)
- *The Girl of the Golden West* (1930), as Billy Jackrabbit
- *The Santa Fe Trail* (1930), as Brown Beaver
- *Tiger Rose* (1929), as Indian
- *The Invaders* (1929), Actor
- *Hawk of the Hills* (1929), as Chief White Wolf
- *The Glorious Trail* (1928), as High Wolf
- *The Red Raiders* (1927), as Lone Wolf
- *With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre* (1927), as Sitting Bull
- *War Paint* (1926), as Iron Eyes
- *Forlorn River* (1926), as Modoc Joe
- *Moran of the Mounted* (1926), as Biting Wolf
- *Ella Cinders* (1926), as Indian with Cigar (uncredited)
- *Kentucky Days* (1923), as Indian Scout

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