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  Iron Eyes Cody, Indian on anti-litter ads: 1/5/99
Cody died of natural causes at 1:30 p.m.
Cody, whose acting credits date back to silent movies and include dozens of films and television shows, was best known for the ads from the group Keep America Beautiful that showed him shedding a single tear as he watched people litter.
Cody went on to appear in more than 80 films in Indian roles; often his character was listed as simply "Indian," "Indian Chief" or "Indian Joe." In one film, "Perils of Nyoka" in 1942, he had an uncredited role as "Arab."
www.s-t.com /daily/01-99/01-05-99/b06wn095.htm   (306 words)

  
 Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes, a veteran Hollywood performer and technical advisor to producers, is the crying Indian in the Keep America Beautiful commercial.
Iron Eyes Cody started at the age of 12 with producer C. DeMile, and worked for and was a friend of the late Walt Disney.
Iron Eyes was born April 3, 1904 at Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, and passed away January 4, 1999.
www.ironeyescody.org   (323 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Movies (Iron Eyes Cody)
Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti on
Cody died on 5 January 1999 at the age of 94.
Even if Iron Eyes was not a true-born Native American, he certainly did a lot of good on behalf of the Native American community, and they generally accepted him as one of them without caring about his true ancestry.
www.snopes.com /movies/actors/ironeyes.htm   (990 words)

  
 Idaho Mountain Express: A tear for Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody was "the crying Indian" in TV spots for Keep America Beautiful – a tall, sad-faced Native American with fl pigtails, viewing the landscape from a horse or canoe, then, as the camera moved in for a tight facial shot, wept a single tear.
Iron Eyes Cody died a few weeks ago, probably in his 80s or 90s, a veteran of 80 movies, always in non-starring roles.
After meeting Iron Eyes in Phoenix at the height of his popularity at one of the appearances he made as a spokesman for Keep American Beautiful, he agreed to meet for an interview at his home in the hills outside Los Angeles.
www.mtexpress.com /1999/01-27-99/murphj27.htm   (519 words)

  
 "the People's Paths home page!" - Cherokee News Path! - Iron Eyes Cody Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Cody claimed and was thought to have been of Cherokee and Cree heritage but his Indian heritage is being disputed.
Iron Eyes Cody's, wife died in 1978 and is survived by a son; three grandchildren; and a niece.
In a 1998 television ad concerning littering, Iron Eyes Cody's image appears on a poster, as commuters boarding a city bus are carelessly tossing waste to the street.
yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /Cherokee/News/Jan99/NT990105Cody.htm   (292 words)

  
 Iron Eyes Cody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Iron Eyes Cody, an American Indian actor who appeared in more than 100 films, is best known for standing beside a littered highway and shedding a tear in the "Keep America Beautiful" television advertisements in the 1970s.
Cody's career began when a film crew came to his family's farm in the Oklahoma territory to shoot "Back to God's Country" (1919), and Cody got a job as an extra.
In 1996, a newspaper in Louisiana reported that Cody was not really an American Indian born in the Oklahoma territory, as he claimed, but was actually of Italian heritage, and was born in a small town in southern Louisiana.
www.cemeteryguide.com /cody.html   (301 words)

  
 Internet Obituary Network: Iron Eyes Cody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Iron Eyes Cody, famous Native American actor, died January 4, 1999 at the age of 94.
Cody was known for his strong feelings about how Native Americans should be depicted in the media.
Cody is survived by his son Robert Tree, three grandchildren, and a niece.
obits.com /ironeyescody.html   (349 words)

  
 Iron Eyes Cody: Tombstone Tributes
Iron Eyes appeared in Whistling Dan (1932), King of the Stallions (1942), Under the Nevada Skies (1946), and even teamed with the Bowery Boys in the 1947 farce, Bowery Buckaroos.
Stereotypically typecast as an Indian, Iron Eyes mostly worked in Westerns (either as a one-liner man or a backdrop), such as Broken Arrow (1950), Son of Paleface (1952), Sitting Bull (1954), and A Man Called Horse (1970).
Iron Eyes Cody's most memorable part came in the early 1970s, in the ever-famous commercial for the "Keep America Beautiful" campaign, in which he was seen as the Indian with a tear running down his cheek.
www.wildestwesterns.com /iron_eyes_cody.htm   (243 words)

  
 CowboyDirectory.Com: Page C - 7
Cody treated his former foes with great respect and dignity, giving them an opportunity to leave the reservation and represent their culture when many were trying to destroy it.
Iron Eyes Cody was a prize-winning marksman with a bow and arrow, and it was his arrow that pierced the upright’s settler’s hat (the pierced actor would be wearing a protective iron skull cap that Cody stocked for such shots).
Iron Eyes Cody died on Jan. 4, 1999 at the age of 94.
www.cowboydirectory.com /C/c--oa.html   (3384 words)

  
 Iron Eyes Cody's grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Iron Eyes Cody was an actor born in Kaplan, Louisiana.
Cody and his wife Bertha Parker adopted children that were Native American.
Cody began his acting career at the age of 12 and continued to work until the time of his death.
www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /ForeverObituaries/ironeyescody.htm   (187 words)

  
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Cody retained a dislike for Hughes, who forced the dignified Cody to retrieve Hughes’ golf balls at a driving range.
The article claimed that Cody’s father was an Italian immigrant named De Corti who had gotten in trouble with the New Orleans Mafia, the “Black Hand.” (Recall the unemployed Italian bricklayers Cody found so easy to recruit as “Indian” extras.) Young Oscar escaped west with his mother and siblings.
When Cody stood by the road, a tear trickling down his face in his famous PSA, it was said of him that the tear was faked.
www.goodbyemag.com /jan99/cody.html   (1414 words)

  
 Slipcue.com Obituary Listings
Iron Eyes Cody, the actor who played an Indian shedding a tear at the sight of a littered American landscape in one of television's best-known and most- honored television commercials, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles, the police said.
Cody said he was born in Oklahoma to a father, Thomas Long Plume, who was a Cherokee Indian, and a mother, Frances Salpet, who was Cree.
Cody is survived by another son, Robert Tree, of Phoenix, Ariz., three grandchildren, and a niece.
www.slipcue.com /obits/01/obits01.html   (1090 words)

  
 NATIVE_NEWS: Fwd: [FN] Beating a dead Iron Eyes
Cody maintained that he was born and raised >Cherokee in Oklahoma.
Baptismal records at Holy Rosary Catholic Church >show that his sponsors christened him "Espera." Iron Eyes was the second >of four children, with Joseph William the eldest (born in about 1902), and >sister Victoria Delores (about 1907) and brother Frank Henry (about 1909) >the younger siblings.
They changed their names from Corti to Cody, and Iron Eyes >"turned 100 percent Indian," as May puts it.
www.mail-archive.com /nativenews@mlists.net/msg01286.html   (1139 words)

  
 TV ACRES: Advertising Mascots - Chief Iron Eyes Cody (Keep America Beautiful)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
On January 4, 1999, actor Iron Eyes Cody, who appeared in 100 films, died in Los Angeles.
This time the camera zooms into a poster of Chief Iron Eyes pasted to a bus shelter and follows the trail of a computer-generated tear as it emerges from the eye of the Chief and rolls down his cheek.
Note: Before there was Chief Iron Eyes, there was an animated spokesperson called "Suzie Spotless" who reminded the public not to pollute.
www.tvacres.com /admascots_chiefironeyes.htm   (338 words)

  
 The Greens' Black-Out On Their Imitation Red Man
Iron Eyes Cody came to Hollywood, he said, in 1919.
Iron Eyes – or 'Oscar' as he was called – was born on April 3, 1904, in the small town of Kaplan.
Cody told reporters that the story was not true, but he refused to provide any documentation about his origins over the next three years.
www.lewrockwell.com /north/north67.html   (1982 words)

  
 Famous People: Iron Eyes Cody.
Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti, the son of two first-generation immigrants from Italy.
In 1924 he moved to California, changed his name - already shortened from DeCorti to Corti - to Cody, and started working as an actor, presenting himself as a Native American.
Iron Eyes Cody lived and worked as an Indian for all his adult life; he labored for decades to promote Native American causes, and was honored by Hollywood's Native American community in 1995 for his efforts
www.peoplemoz.com /people/Iron,Eyes,Cody.html   (96 words)

  
 CODY STATUE
The television commercial (Keep America Beautiful) with Iron Eyes Cody was the most successful of it's kind.
When the camera moved upwards for a close-up, a single tear was seen rolling down the Indian's face as the narrator dramatically intoned: "People start pollution; people can stop it." That "crying Indian," as he would later sometimes be referred to, was Iron Eyes Cody the crying Indian, an actor, Cherokee/Cree Native American.
In 1995, Hollywood's Native American community honored Iron Eyes for his long-standing contribution to Native American causes.
ironeyescodyenvironmentalstatue.com   (306 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful - The 1999 Iron Eyes Award
Clyde was instrumental in the start-up of “Roswell Recycles,” a voluntary drop-off program that thrives today, and in the creation of the Outdoor Environmental Classroom, an Earth Day project that has educated more than 2,700 children in Roswell on the responsibility that each of them has to protect the community environment.
Belyeu accepted the 1999 Iron Eyes Cody Award on his behalf, and she read a message from him to the 400 KAB local and state affiliate directors and other community leaders who were present.
The Iron Eyes Cody Award was named in honor of Keep America Beautiful's landmark public awareness campaign of the 1970s, “People Start Pollution.
www.kab.org /release5.htm   (713 words)

  
 Ad Council : Pollution: Keep America Beautiful - Iron Eyes Cody (1961-1983)
Iron Eyes Cody became synonymous with environmental concern and achieved lasting fame as, "The Crying Indian." The PSA won two Clio awards and the campaign was named one of the top 100 advertising campaigns of the 20th Century by Ad Age Magazine.
In 1982, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored Iron Eyes Cody, whose film repertoire included three Western films with President Ronald Reagan, with a star bearing his name on the Famous Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.
During the height of the campaign, Keep America Beautiful reported receiving more than 2,000 letters a month from people wanting to join their local team.
www.adcouncil.org /default.aspx?id=132   (358 words)

  
 The "Indians"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Iron Eyes, Joe, and another brother named Frank, joined their father in Texas.
There is a record in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI): Iron E Cody, born 3 April 1904, passed away 4 January 1999, and his Social Security number was 568-16-8865.
Iron Eyes received a Golden Boot award at the 1984 ceremony.
www.surfnetinc.com /chuck/native16.htm   (470 words)

  
 Prints
This painting, one of Douglas Weaver's favorites, was derived from a commission by the American Buffalo Association, which had honored Indian celebrity Iron Eyes Cody as their Lifetime Honorary Member.
Limited Edition: 500 numbered and signed by Artist Douglas Weaver and Subject, the late Iron Eyes Cody.
Published in fl and white, each print has the girl's beads hand-watercolored, the colors of the original bone, brass and red trader bead necklace.
douglasweaverartist.com /pages/printPage01.shtml   (165 words)

  
 Iron-Eyes Cody Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
This is an easily understood guide to the silent language developed by the Plains tribes.
The hand signals are demonstrated by the author and his wife in photographs that show how to converse without saying a word.
Iron Eyes, My Life as a Hollywood Indian
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Iron-Eyes_Cody   (165 words)

  
 Dinner With Iron Eyes Cody...June 15,1985
So, I went to the my assigned seat, with Iron Eyes on my right side and Ley on my left, and the others down both sides.
Also a guest was Victor Buck, a very close friend and companion of Iron Eyes, and an art critic and appraiser.
They looked at my little album of paintings, and Iron Eyes was quite taken by a painting of a Native woman, and went on and on about "every little hair!".
www.webspawner.com /users/pattijosplace/dinnerwithirone.html   (652 words)

  
 eBay - iron eyes cody, Movie Memorabilia, Autographs-Original items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
IRON EYES CODY - MY LIFE AS A HOLLYWOOD INDIAN
Iron Eyes Cody rare 8x10 B&W portrait photo
Iron Eyes Cody signed photo Vintage 1947 Scene
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 CNN - 'Crying Indian' Iron Eyes Cody dies - January 4, 1999
CNN - 'Crying Indian' Iron Eyes Cody dies - January 4, 1999
Iron Eyes Cody in the Keep America Beautiful ad
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Iron Eyes Cody, the "Crying Indian" whose tearful face in 1970s television commercials became a powerful symbol of the anti-littering campaign, died Monday.
www.cnn.com /US/9901/04/obit.cody   (343 words)

  
 a little pregnant: Move over, Iron Eyes Cody
Although from birth they make moisture enough to keep their eyes wet and healthy, what we commonly think of as tears — the kind that slide down a fat satiny cheek reddened by frustration or pain — don't come until later.
Posted by: wavery at Mar 7, 2005 2:51:22 PM Babies are also born monocular, meaning that they have a preference for using one eye more than the other (if the vision is better in one eye too I don't know) but that's why they always seem to be "peeking" out of one eye....
Posted by: Danigirl at Mar 9, 2005 12:16:15 PM My little bugger had big ol' globs of yellow eye snot coming out of his left eye until the tear ducts were mature enough to shed real tears.
www.alittlepregnant.com /alittlepregnant/2005/03/move_over_iron_.html   (2021 words)

  
 Iron Eyes Cody - Viquipèdia
Iron Eyes Cody (Kaplan, Louisiana, 1905-1999) fou un actor nordamericà, fill del cherokee Thomas Long Plume i de la cree Frances Salpet.
Esdevingué famós per un espai publicitari del 1971 on plorava el dia de la Terra sota el lema Keep America Beautiful.
(anglès) Snopes article: Era Iron Eyes Cody un indi americà?
ca.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody   (134 words)

  
 American bronze sculpture. Cowboys, Native Americans, film stars. Buffalo Bill, William Cody, Sitting Bull, Iron Eyes ...
Buffalo Bill, William Cody, Sitting Bull, Iron Eyes Cody, Standing Bear, Chief Dan George, Roy Rogers, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne.
A full size statue he produced of Buffalo Bill, William Cody, after many years of research, was presented to the people of the USA in 1998.
It is currently in Cody Park, North Platte, Nebraska.
www.bryans-american-world.com /sculpture.htm   (278 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful: Iron Eyes Cody
Almost three decades ago, Keep America Beautiful created a powerful visual image to dramatize how litter and other forms of environmental pollution were hurting America, and how litter was every individual's responsibility.
The image of the Native American, as portrayed by the actor Iron Eyes Cody, is the official logo for the Great American Cleanup™ 2001 because, like Keep America Beautiful's 1971 public service ad, it will remind all Americans of their individual responsibility to preserve and protect the land and the community environment.
It recalls the famous face and tear of Iron Eyes Cody, and delivers a strong message about litter prevention and individual responsibility.
www.kab.org /aboutus.asp?id=413&rid=414   (250 words)

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