Chief Dan George in 'Cancel My Reservation'
Chief Dan George (1899 - 1981)
Former Chief of the Burrard (Tsliel-Waututh) Nation (1951 - 1963)
Film Deaths:[]
- Little Big Man (1970) [Old Lodge Skins]: Dies (off-screen) of old age/natural causes, at some point between the 19th-century story and the 20th-century framing sequence.
- Cancel My Reservation (1972) [Old Bear]: Dies of a heart attack after Forrest Tucker attempts to crush him to death by lowering a car on him in the garage; he dies shortly after Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint rescue him.