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Iron Eyes Cody
Age: 91 (passed away Jan. 4th, 1999)
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Birth Place: Gueydan, Louisiana, USA
Born: Apr. 3rd, 1907
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BIOGRAPHY: 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. He married an Indian woman, Bertha Parker, and together they adopted two Indian sons. 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.
TRIVIA:
- Father of 'Joseph Cody' (qv)
- Was actually of Italian descent.
- Brother of 'J.W. Cody' (qv).
- He was the man who played the Indian that sheds a single tear for a blighted American environment in "Keep America Beautiful" ads that ran from 1971 into the 1980s.
- Interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood California next to his wife, who died in 1978.
- Cody's Native American heritage was challenged in 1996 by a New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) newspaper which reported that he was in fact of Italian ancestry, which he of course denied.
- His daughter died in a childhood hunting accident.
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