Personal Info
Birth date
1951-12-21 (73 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known as
Michael Heinrich
Michael James Heinrich
Michael Horse
Biography
Michael Horse (born Michael James Heinrich; December 21, 1949) is an American actor known for his portrayals of Native American characters in film and television. Horse was born Michael James Heinrich in Los Angeles, California, on December 21, 1949. His mother, Nancie Belle Posten, was Swedish. Horse's adoptive father, George Heinrich, was born in Florida to parents from Austria. Nancie died in California in 2004. Horse's film debut came in the role of Tonto in the 1981 film The Legend of the Lone Ranger, which was a commercial failure. Before taking the role, Horse had been concerned that the character might be perceived as a stereotype. After appearing in David Lynch's short film The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988), Horse portrayed Deputy Hawk, a Native American policeman, in Lynch's TV series Twin Peaks (1990–91). He also acted in Passenger 57 (1992), House of Cards (1993), the 1990s version of the television series The Untouchables (1993), and North of 60 (1995–97). He also appeared in the Thanks episode "Thanksgiving" in 1999, portraying Squanto. He appeared as Deputy Owen Blackwood in four episodes of the first season of Roswell (1999). Horse also appeared as Sheriff Tskany in The X-Files episode "Shapes" in 1994. In 1999, Horse guest starred on Walker, Texas Ranger in the episode "Team Cherokee" as John Red Cloud, the owner of a Native American NASCAR racing team and a friend of the titular character, Texas Ranger Cordell Walker (Chuck Norris). Horse portrayed American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Dennis Banks in the 1994 film Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee. Eight years later, he lent his voice to Little Creek's friend in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. He portrayed Mike Proudfoot on Sons of Tucson. In 1995 he portrayed Dirty Bob in the Western film Riders in the Storm. He played the character Jindoga in Hawkeye. In 2017, Horse reprised his role as Deputy Hawk in the third season of TV series Twin Peaks. He also portrayed Twamie Ullulaq in the seventh season of The Blacklist in 2020.
Filmography
The Blacklist
7.64
Overview:
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.Malcolm in the Middle
8.471
Overview:
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.The X-Files
8.376
Overview:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.Twin Peaks
8.3
Overview:
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.Knight Rider
7.535
Overview:
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.Young Justice
8.398
Overview:
Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.Walker, Texas Ranger
6.962
Overview:
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.Jackie Chan Adventures
8.2
Overview:
Jackie Chan teams up in this animé-style adventure with his 11-year-old niece, Jade, traveling the globe to locate a dozen magical talismans before the sinister Dark Hand does. Helping Jackie and Jade is Uncle, a cantankerous but wise antiquities expert. Though officially Jackie works as an archaeologist, in reality he also assists Captain Black, leader of the covert police squad Section 13.Amazing Stories
7.5
Overview:
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.What's New, Scooby-Doo?
7.9
Overview:
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang are launched into the 21st century, with new mysteries to solve.Superman: The Animated Series
7.6
Overview:
Superman, an incredibly powerful alien from the planet Krypton, defends Metropolis from supercriminals. Superman hides his identity behind the glasses of Clark Kent; a mild-mannered reporter for the newspaper the Daily Planet. At the Daily Planet Superman works with fellow reporter Lois Lane and photographer Jimmy Olsen.Hell on Wheels
7.58
Overview:
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.The Wild Thornberrys
6.946
Overview:
Travel the world with the Thornberrys and come face-to-face with blue sheep in Nepal, emus in Australia, marmots in Pakistan, flash floods in Siberia, Egyptian burial chambers, a runaway hot air balloon, a rock slide on the Karakoram Highway and more!Gargoyles
8.1
Overview:
In Scotland, 994 A.D. Goliath and his clan of gargoyles defend a medieval castle. In present day, David Xanatos buys the castle and moves it to New York City. When the castle is attacked the gargoyles are awakened from a 1000 year curse.Passenger 57
5.993
Overview:
Airline security specialist John Cutter, finally returning to the job after his wife's death, finds himself stuck on a flight being hijacked by notorious terrorist Charles Rane. Unfortunately for the terrorists, they're also stuck with him.Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
7.7
Overview:
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.Roswell
7.705
Overview:
Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever, angst-filled classmates, the two form a bond that threatens the survival of a secret universe involving superhuman powers, a yen for hot sauce and an alien gene pool.Duckman
7.2
Overview:
Together with Cornfed, his portly, porcine partner in crime solving, this defective detective amazingly manages to solve crimes and be a single parent to his hilariously dysfunctional sons at the same time.The Call of the Wild
7.537
Overview:
Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
7.2
Overview:
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series.A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
7
Overview:
One week in the making of David Lynch's 2017 continuation of his groundbreaking television series TWIN PEAKS, capturing the cast and crew as they revisited several locations from the '90s original.Motherland: Fort Salem
7.932
Overview:
Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country, the series follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment.Bobby's World
6.962
Overview:
Bobby Generic lives in a typical suburban neighborhood and uses his overactive imagination to discover a world of daring adventure, incredible wonder and lots of laughs — all in pint-sized perspective.Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
5
Overview:
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.Navajo Blues
NYR
Overview:
After police detective Nick Epps witnesses his partner's murder by the Mafia, he's forced enter the witness protection program and is placed on the Navajo Indian Reservation. He tries to settle into his new life, but danger seems to follow him as he becomes involved in a serial killer investigation. Before long, the Mafia tracks him down, and Nick is suddenly trapped between two violent worlds with little hope of escaping alive.Life with Louie
6.8
Overview:
The 8-year-old Louie is doing his best to grow up and cope with a large family, a doting mother, a pesky little brother, and a by-the-book, military veteran dad. Add to that a slew of holiday family squabbles, a flood, an old Rambler and a huge goldfish, and you have the background for Life with Louie. Each episode is a portrait of humor and warmth drawn from Louie Anderson's real-life experience as a child in the Midwest.Buckeye and Blue
7
Overview:
Adventures of a train robber and his teenaged female partner, on the run from the law in the days of the Wild West. Suitable for younger audiences.Acting
TBAI Filmed Your Death as Andy Bones
TBAThe Bench as Unknown
2025I Know Catherine, the Log Lady as Self
2023The American Buffalo (2 Episodes) as (voice)
2023Gift of Fear as Chance Riddle
2021Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House as Self
2020Motherland: Fort Salem (10 Episodes) as The Marshal
2020The Call of the Wild as Edenshaw
2018Lights Camera Bullshit as Narrator
2017The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair as Self
2017Bad Binoculars as Self
2017A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks as Self
2017Dead Ant as Bigfoot
2014Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces as Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
2013The Blacklist (1 Episode) as Twamie Ullulaq
2012Skinny Jo as Tombi
2011Hell on Wheels (1 Episode) as Native American
2010Young Justice (1 Episode) as Holling Longshadow (voice)
2010Sons of Tucson (3 Episodes) as Mike Proudfoot
2008The Bone Eater as Storm Cloud
2008Turok: Son of Stone as Lead Raider / Chief (voice)
2007Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks as Unknown
2003All Grown Up! (1 Episode) as Unknown
2002What's New, Scooby-Doo? (1 Episode) as Leon Strongfeather (voice)
2002Birdseye as Pete Longshadow
2002Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron as Little Creek's Friend (voice)
2002The Short Films of David Lynch as Broken Feather
2001Postcards From The Cast as Self
2001Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks as Self
2001Kristin (1 Episode) as Jonathan Stillwater
2000Jackie Chan Adventures (1 Episode) as Muntab Leader (voice)
2000Malcolm in the Middle (1, 1 Episode) as Security Guy, Steve
1999Roswell (4 Episodes) as Owen Blackwood
1999In the Blue Ground: A North of 60 Mystery as Andrew One Sky
1998Star of Jaipur as Colonel Ironwood
1998The Wild Thornberrys (1 Episode) as Wildlife Ranger Sam Rainwater (voice)
1998Shattered Illusions as Eddie
1997The Legend of Calamity Jane (2 Episodes) as Chaynah Walker (voice)
1996Navajo Blues as Begay
1996American Strays as Lead Cop
1996Superman: The Animated Series (0, 1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Sky Sentry Operator (voice), Ubu (voice)
1996Adventures from the Book of Virtues (1 Episode) as Strong Wind / The Chief (voice)
1996The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1, 1 Episode) as Eskimo (voice), Ames (voice)
1995Riders in the Storm as Dirty Bob
1994Life with Louie (1 Episode) as Unknown
1994Gargoyles (1, 3 Episode) as Peter Maza/Carlos Maza (voice), Peter Maza (voice)
1994Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee as Dennis Banks
1994Duckman (1 Episode) as Big Chief Fancy Pants (voice)
1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Sheriff Charles Tskany
1993House of Cards as Stoker
1993Walker, Texas Ranger (2 Episodes) as John Red Cloud
1993The Untouchables (42 Episodes) as George Steelman
1992Passenger 57 as Forget
1991The Torkelsons (1 Episode) as David Blackwing
1991P.S. I Luv U (1 Episode) as Unknown
1990Bobby's World (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1990Twin Peaks (44 Episodes) as Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
1989Border Shootout as Dandy Jim
1989Twin Peaks as Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
1989Deadly Weapon as Indian Joe
1988The French as Seen by… as (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
1988The Cowboy and the Frenchman as Broken Feather
1988Longarm as Vasquez
1988Buckeye and Blue as Cherokee Bill
1987Rented Lips as Bobby Leaping Mouse
1986The Check is in the Mail... as Pool Attendant
1985Amazing Stories (1, 1 Episode) as Indian, male friend
1985Hollywood Beat (1 Episode) as Billy Night Eyes
1982It Takes Two (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982Knight Rider (1 Episode) as Jonathan Eagle
1982I Love Liberty as Self
1982The Avenging as Josuah
1981The Legend of the Lone Ranger as Tonto
Crew
1996American Strays ... Stunt Coordinator