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- Iron Eyes Cody, January 4, 1999
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- Jonathan Thomas Stratman
If the name isn't familiar, it's still a good bet you know the face.
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Iron Eyes Cody died today, January 4, 1999.
If the name isn’t familiar, it’s still a good bet you know the face.
From the early 70s on … known as the “Crying Indian,” Iron Eyes Cody has been the tear-streaked face of the “Keep America Beautiful” advertising campaign, seen by more than fourteen BILLION television viewers
In the commercial, Native American Cody paddles his canoe from unspoiled wilderness to a wasteland of floating garbage and factories belching smoke. Out of his canoe, he stands his littered ground while the narrator says … "There are some people who have a deep, abiding respect for the land that America used to be. Other people don't." Trash tossed from a car lands at Cody's feet. The camera zooms to his weathered face. We see a tear.
The ad took just six days to film, was wonderfully successful … and overnight made the fifty-year actor one of the most recognizab...
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