Biography
Zahn McClarnon is an American film and television actor of Native American and Irish descent. He's best known for his roles as Joe Leaphorn on AMC's series Dark Winds (in which he was also an executive producer), Big on Hulu's series Reservation Dogs, Yvon on NatGeo's miniseries Barkskins, Tulimak in the film Togo, Crow Daddy in Doctor Sleep, Hallett in the film Braven, Toshaway in AMC's The Son, The Professor in the film Bone Tomahawk, Akecheta on Westworld, Hanzee Dent on the series Fargo, Off...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Americana
2025
as Ghost Eye
When a rare Lakota Ghost Shirt falls into the black market in a small town in South Dakota, the lives of local outsiders and outcasts violently intert...

Hail to the Breadsticks!
2024
as Self
Writer producer Donick Cary (The Simpsons, Parks and Recreation, Have a Good Trip, etc.) has been a huge fan of the Washington D.C. pro football team...

No Hard Feelings
2023
as Gabe Sawyer, Surfing Lawyer
On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their ...

The Last Manhunt
2022
as William Johnson
In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a confrontation gone terribly wrong. With President ...

The Forever Purge
2021
as Chiago
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they c...

The Silencing
2020
as Blackhawk
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidn...

Togo
2019
as Tulimak
The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting ...

Hell on the Border
2019
as Sam Sixkiller
In the late 1800s, legendary marshal Bass Reeves sets out on the trail of notorious outlaw Bob Dozier.

Doctor Sleep
2019
as Crow Daddy
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous te...

Braven
2018
as Hallett
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.

Neither Wolf Nor Dog
2016
as Billy
A white author is sucked into a road trip through the heart on Native American Country by a Lakota elder and his best friend forcing the author into a...

In Embryo
2016
as Michael
Sean lives a harsh but successful life as a criminal in Los Angeles's rough suburbs. He has, in spite of a chaotic and violent childhood, created some...

Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
2016
as Self
Go behind the scenes of the second season of Fargo.

Bone Tomahawk
2015
as The Professor
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. ...

Mekko
2015
as Bill
Mekko gets out of prison after 19 years. He has no home or family so he makes his way to Tulsa. He tries to connect with a cousin but she turns him aw...

Strike One
2014
as Muerto O.G.
Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older siste...

The Cherokee Word for Water
2013
as Deputy Jackson
The Cherokee Word for Water is a feature-length motion picture that tells the story of the work that led Wilma Mankiller to become the first modern fe...

Awful Nice
2013
as Romulus
Estranged brothers Jim and Dave must travel to Branson together when their father dies and leaves them the lake home. A series of hilarious mishaps an...

Resolution
2013
as Charles
A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events o...

Yellow Rock
2011
as Look First
Five men ride into the eerie town of Yellow Rock, hoping to rescue a family member and his lost boy. The leader, Max Dietrich, hires Mountain Man, Tom...

The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy
2011
as Quanah Parker
In 1870s Texas, a ruthless bounty hunter and an Irish desperado flee the law with a young criminal claiming to possess a treasure more valuable than g...

Not Forgotten
2009
as Calvo
Set in a Tex-Mex border town, Not Forgotten is a classic psychological thriller about Jack and Amaya Bishop, a couple who must come to terms with thei...

Repo Chick
2009
as Savage
As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens to wipe out the city of Los Angeles...

Searchers 2.0
2007
as Rusty Frobisher
Two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated them on the set of an e...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007
ADR Voice Casting
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastm...

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
2006
as Tommy Yellow Hawk
After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll ...

Momentum
2003
as Hawk
A trio of men with telekinetic powers led by Adrian Geiger rob an armored car. However the skeptical FBI agents Jordan Ripps and her partner Frank McI...

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002
as Little Creek's Friend (voice)
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.

Lakota Moon
1999
as Sky Walker
This movie depicts the life of a small Indian tribe, in a time shortly before the white men became a threat. In the focus of the story is the young Sk...

A Town Has Turned to Dust
1998
as Tommy Tall Bear
In a futuristic desert hamlet, a ruthless town boss lynches a falsely accused Native American teen, setting the stage for revolt and a clash with a tr...

Crazy Horse
1996
as Little Big Man
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.

Silent Fall
1994
as Deputy Bear
Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries to...

Ghostkiller
N/A
as Chastke Ghostkiller
Accused murderer Kyle Ghostkiller, heir to a mystical medicine bundle, escapes the FBI and time jumps to 1862 where he must save his thirty-eight ance...
The Red Man's View
N/A
as Masaka
Epic remake of a Native American film originally done 100 years ago about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the tim...