---
name: "Eric Schweig"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eric-schweig"
fi1m_id: "eric-schweig"
imdb_id: "nm0777760"
tmdb_id: 57448
wikidata_id: "Q904209"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "19 June 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 86
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T07:38:33.499246+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."
---

# Eric Schweig

## Identity

Eric Schweig

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eric-schweig
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eric-schweig
- **IMDb ID:** nm0777760
- **TMDB ID:** 57448
- **Wikidata ID:** Q904209
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schweig, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q904209, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777760/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57448

Actor. Born 19 June 1967 in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 19 June 1967, Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada
- **Active:** 1992–present
- **Also known as:** اریک شویگ
- **Average Fi1m score:** 86, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (1), 2020s 87 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schweig, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q904209, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777760/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57448

## Biography

Eric Schweig is a Canadian Inuvialuk actor. Born Ray Dean Thrasher on 19 June 1967 in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, he has appeared in film and television since the late 1980s.

He is best known for playing Uncas in *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992). Other credits include Metacomet in *The Scarlet Letter* (1995), Injun Joe in *Tom and Huck* (1995), Pike Dexter in *Big Eden* (2000), for which he received the Outstanding Actor Award at Outfest, and Avanti in *One Battle After Another* (2025). He has also appeared in series such as *Supernatural* (2017), *Elementary* (2014) and *Longmire* (2013).

Schweig is also a master carver of Inuit masks and carvings. He is the nephew of musician Willie Thrasher and has two foster children. He is also credited as اریک شویگ.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *One Battle After Another* (2025), Fi1m 87, as Avanti — [page](https://film.one/film/one-battle-after-another.md)
- *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992), Fi1m 84, as Uncas — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-of-the-mohicans.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

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

- *One Battle After Another* (2025), as Avanti — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/one-battle-after-another.md)
- *Little Bird* (2023), series, as Asin
- *Brother, I Cry* (2020), as Dean
- *The Grizzlies* (2019), as Harry
- *The Tormenting* (2016), as Ruben Martin
- *The Flash* (2014), series, as General Cloud
- *Maïna* (2013), as Quujuuq
- *Elementary* (2012), series, as Leon Moody
- *Longmire* (2012), series, as Dolan Lone Elk — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/longmire.md)
- *Casino Jack* (2010), as Chief Poncho
- *Kissed by Lightning* (2009), as Bug a.k.a. Solomon King
- *Cashing In* (2009), series, as Mathew Tommy
- *Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee* (2007), as Gall
- *Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis* (2006), series, as Terry Doxtator
- *Not Like Everyone Else* (2006), as Tim Blackbear
- *One Dead Indian* (2006), as Sam George
- *Mr. Soul* (2006), Actor
- *It Waits* (2005), as Joseph Riverwind
- *Supernatural* (2005), series, as Sergeant 'Sarge' Joe Phillips — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/supernatural.md)
- *Into the West* (2005), series, as Sitting Bull
- *Mr. Barrington* (2003), Actor
- *The Missing* (2003), as Pesh-Chidin / El Brujo
- *Cowboys & Indians* (2003), as Harry Wood
- *Skins* (2002), as Rudy Yellow Lodge
- *Hollywood Off-Ramp* (2000), series, Actor
- *Big Eden* (2000), as Pike Dexter
- *Dead Man's Walk* (1996), series, as Buffalo Hump
- *Tom and Huck* (1995), as Injun Joe
- *The Scarlet Letter* (1995), as Metacomet
- *Follow The River* (1995), as Wildcat
- *500 Nations* (1995), series, Actor
- *Pontiac Moon* (1994), as Ernest Ironplume
- *Squanto: A Warrior's Tale* (1994), as Epenow
- *Hawkeye (The First Frontier)* (1994), series, Actor
- *The Broken Chain* (1993), as Joseph Brandt / Theyendangea
- *For Love and Glory* (1993), as Moses Moon
- *Heritage Minutes: Laura Secord* (1993), as Mohawk #1
- *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992), as Uncas — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-of-the-mohicans.md)
- *Heritage Minutes* (1991), series, as Mohawk #1
- *The Shaman's Source* (1990), as Robert Crow
- *War of the Worlds* (1988), series, as Darrow
- *Used Mercs*, as Mr. Riley

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