C'est l'histoire d'un acteur de westerns des années 50 devenu le visage de la cause amérindienne... jusqu'à ce qu'un journal dévoile la supercherie : Iron Eyes Cody était en fait italien. | France Culture

Happy Earth Day - #🌎 Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was an Italian-American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope’s The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country’s most well-known television public service announcements, “Keep America Beautiful” The environmental commercial showed Cody in costume, shedding a tear after trash is throw