Jay X Brands was born in Kansas City. Missouri on July 24, 1927. Jay was best known as Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah, the tall Pawnee Indian and sidekick to Jock Mahoney’s Yancy Derringer on the 1958-1959 TV series of the same name. Using the stage name X Brands he also appeared in two Spaghetti westerns: “Captain Apache” in 1970 as a deputy and where he also performed stunts, also he was Lee Van Cleef’s stunt double in 1972’s “The Grand Duel”. X died in Northridge, California of sepsis, pneumonia and congestive heart failure on May 8, 2000.
Brands' unusual use of a lone alphabetic character as a
name derives from his family history. In the small town in Germany where his
ancestors once resides, there were two men named Jan Brands. One of them
adopted the middle initial "X" to distinguish himself from the other
Jan. He became known as "X" Brands, and the name continued to be used
by his descendants who immigrated to America.
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