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Morgan Grant was a Native American character actor best known for “The Lone
Ranger, “The World’s Fastest Indian”, and Breaking Bad. Grant has died at the
age of 85, his publicist Lani Carmichael said on Sunday. The prolific Native
American character actor died on July 28, Carmichael said.

Grant was
born at the Indian Hospital in Pawnee, Oklahoma on July 20, 1936. He was the
son of Sarah and Austin Grant. The actor was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of
Oklahoma. His mother’s ancestry was from the Iowa and Otoe-Missouria tribes of
Oklahoma. He was a United States Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War.

Grant’s
first role as an actor was in 1988’s “War Party” with Kevin Dillon,
according to IMDb. Since then, he has made close to 60 appearances in film and
television.

He then went on to play Grey Cloud, an ally of Indiana Jones, opposite Harrison Ford in 1993
episode “Mystery of the Blues” of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
He played the Gatekeeper in the 1999 film, “Purgatory”. He played
Chief Big Bear in the 2013 film The Lone Ranger. The same year, he appeared as
a man who sells his truck to Walter White in the Breaking Bad episode “Ozymandias”.

Grant was
awarded the American Legacy Award from the San Diego Film Festival and the
lifetime achievement award from the Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation and a
Living Legend Award by the Native American Music Awards (NAMA). In 2018, his
album “Don’t Let the Drums Go Silent” won the Record of the Year from
NAMA.