page_title: Ed Ames
section_title: Acting career
hierarchical_section_title: Ed Ames / Acting career
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Ed Ames as Mingo from the television program Daniel Boone.
context_page_description: Ed Ames, also recorded as Eddie Ames, is an American singer and actor. He is known for playing Mingo in the television series Daniel Boone and for his pop hits of the mid-to-late 1960s including "My Cup Runneth Over", "Who Will Answer?" and "When the Snow Is on the Roses". He was also part of the popular 1950s singing group with his siblings, The Ames Brothers.
context_section_description: In the early 1960s, the Ames Brothers disbanded, and Ed Ames, pursuing a career in acting, studied at the Herbert Berghof School. His first starring role was in an Off Broadway production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, going on to starring performances in The Fantasticks off-Broadway and Carnival!, which was on Broadway.  He was in the national touring company of Carnival.
  Ames' dark complexion and sharp facial features led to his being cast regularly as a Native American. He played Chief Bromden in the Broadway production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, opposite Kirk Douglas.
  Talent scouts at 20th Century Fox saw Ames in the production and invited him to play the Cherokee tribesman, Mingo on the NBC television series Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, and Veronica Cartwright. His character's father was an English officer, the Fourth Earl of Dunmore, played in the show by Walter Pidgeon. In that show, Mingo was the Earl's eldest son and thus entitled to claim the title as the fifth Earl, but decided to remain part of the Cherokee Nation. In an episode of Season One, Ames also portrayed Mingo's evil twin brother, Taramingo. Ames' main character was actually named Caramingo, but went by Mingo throughout the entire series. Ames played a Mexican bandit on a 1962 The Rifleman episode and guest-starred as Kennedy in the 1963 episode "The Day of the Pawnees, Part 2" on ABC's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, with Kurt Russell in the title role. He guest-starred in 1963 on Richard Egan's NBC modern western series, Redigo.
caption: Ames as Mingo in the 1960s NBC television series, Daniel Boone
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