# George Aguilar

George Aguilar is a Mescalero Apache and Pascua Yaqui actor. He is best known for his roles as Cahuenga in Bagdad Café, Johnny Sassamon in The Scarlet Letter, Grandfather Stone in Dreamkeeper, Big Foot in Into the West, and Kaw Chief in Neverland.

## Career

Aguilar is probably best known for his work on Bagdad Cafe (1987), The Scarlet Letter (1995) and the miniseries Neverland (2011).

## Personal life

Aguilar has been married to French actress Josiane Balasko since 2003. They reside in the Paris area.
A son, also named George Aguilar, was a car mechanic and aspiring actor who with his father appeared in The Scarlet Letter (1995) and Into The West (2005); he died in 2008 at age 28.

## Filmography
### Feature film appearances

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1972 | Ulzana's Raid | Indian Brave | Robert Aldrich | |
| 1974 | The Trial of Billy Jack | Elk's Shadow | Tom Laughlin | |
| 1987 | Bagdad Café | Cahuenga | Percy Adlon | |
| 1991 | Lunatics: A Love Story | Comet | Josh Becker | |
| 1995 | The Scarlet Letter | Johnny Sassamon | Roland Joffé | |
| 1998 | Almost Heroes | Chief Two Roads | Christopher Guest | |
| 1998 | Phoenix | Mr. Fat | Danny Cannon | |
| 1999 | Le fils du Français | Indian Chief | Gérard Lauzier | |
| 2003 | The Mystery of the Yellow Room | Littlefoot / The gamekeeper | Bruno Podalydès | |
| 2004 | Our Music | Indian | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 2004 | Casablanca Driver | Willy Stevens | Maurice Barthélemy | |
| 2005 | La vie est à nous ! | Sky | Gérard Krawczyk | |
| 2005 | L'Ex-femme de ma vie | Forcené M. Alvarez | Josiane Balasko | |
| 2006 | Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la vie | The nurse spa | Patrice Leconte | |
| 2007 | Big City | Indian Wizard | Djamel Bensalah | |
| 2008 | Cliente | Jim | Josiane Balasko (2) | |
| 2009 | Park Benches | Gary | Bruno Podalydès (2) | |
| 2009 | Orpailleur | Joseph | Marc Barrat | |
| 2010 | The Undeaducated | George | Cynthia Serrano | Short |
| 2012 | Au galop | The taxi driver | Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | |
| 2012 | Dark Blood | Indian | George Sluizer | |
| 2013 | Demi-soeur | Silver | Josiane Balasko (3) | |

### Television appearances

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1977 | The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | | Jack B. Hively | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1977 | ABC Weekend Special | Yellow Nose | John Llewellyn Moxey | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1979 | Little House on the Prairie | Brave | Michael Landon | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1984 | The Mystic Warrior | Kungi Yuha Leader | Richard T. Heffron | TV movie |
| 1985 | Code of Vengeance | Plainclothes Cop | Rick Rosenthal | TV movie |
| 1991 | Lightning Field | Guard | Michael Switzer | TV movie |
| 1992 | Mann & Machine | Irontree | James A. Contner | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1993 | Shadowhunter | Daniel Nez | J. S. Cardone | TV movie |
| 1994 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Wakasa | Corey Allen | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1995 | Siringo | Yellow Hawk | Kevin G. Cremin | TV movie |
| 2003 | Dreamkeeper | Grandfather Stone | Steve Barron | TV movie |
| 2005 | Into the West | Spotted Elk | Jeremy Podeswa | TV mini-series |
| 2006 | David Nolande | Jo | Nicolas Cuche | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2009 | Services sacrés | Indian | Vincenzo Marano | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2010 | Big Jim | Peter | Christian Merret-Palmair | TV movie |
| 2011 | Neverland | Kaw Chief | Nick Willing | TV mini-series |
| 2013 | Phil Spector | Mr. Spector's driver | David Mamet | TV movie |