生于加拿大艾伯塔省卡尔加里市,当过建筑工人。最初为西部片明星巴克·琼斯主演的动作片和弗里德·克茂莱主演的影片当替身演员,1939年开始在派拉蒙电影公司的影片里扮演小角色。他体格健壮,渐渐在西部片和动作片中崭露头角。四十年代中期,他在环球拍片,由于同伊冯娜·德·卡洛合作的《莎乐美》(1945)而升为主角。之后又合演了《铁骑劫美》(1945)和《河上夫人》(1948)。五十年代又出演了电视连续剧《城市侦探》等。
American actor and occasional screenwriter. One of the most frequently seen heavies in films and television programs of the 1950s, his name is nevertheless well known only to buffs. Occasionally he played minor leads and sympathetic characters, but his stern good looks and rich deep voice made him a memorable villain, particularly in Westerns.
Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera or "Oscar" DeCorti, the son of two first-generation immigrants from Italy. In 1924 he moved to California, changed his name 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, Robert and Arthur. 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 as a "non-Native" for his contribution to film.
Russ Conway was born on April 25, 1913 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada as Russell Clarence Zink. He was an actor, known for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Heiress (1949) and The Screaming Skull (1958). He was married to Muriel Morrison. He died on January 12, 2009 in Laguna Hills, California, USA.