[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Byron Chief-Moon was born in Carlsbad, California but his roots are in Canada. Chief-Moon has made appearances in several well-known American and Canadian TV shows (such as ‘MacGyver’, ‘North of 60’, ‘Stargate SG-1’, ‘Da Vinci's Inquest’, ‘Highlander: The Series’, and appeared on ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’, as well as several feature films such as Disney's “White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf”, a sequel to “White Fang”.
He's also a noted Native American dancer and some of his dance theatre pieces have included “Possessed”, “Dancing Voices” and “Voices”, as well as “Jonesing”, an experimental video dance piece. He is also known for his choreography work on the documentary “Echoes of the Sisters” and the dance film “Quest”. Chief-Moon plays the Quileute chief Taha Aki in The Twilight Saga: “Eclipse”.
Byron’s appeared as White Feather in the Euro-TV western ‘Bordertown’ in 1990 and appeared an Woonga in the 1995 Euro-TV western film “Warrior Spirit”.
CHIEF-MOON, Byron (aka Byron Chief Moon)
(Byron Moon) [19?? Carlsbad, California, U.S.A. - ] – Kainai Nation of the Blackfoot
Confederacy Indian – stuntman, writer, film, TV actor, dancer, father of three adopted
children, founded the Coyote Arts Percussive Performance Association, a dance
theatre company.
Bordertown (TV) – 1990 (White Feather)
Warrior Spirit (TV) – 1995 (Woonga)
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