LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When the western television series "The Lone Ranger" first rode into U.S. homes in 1949, the masked man was the dashing, charming hero and the Native American Tonto his loyal ...

Growing up, one of my favorite television shows was “The Lone Ranger.” Every Saturday morning I’d sit in front of the TV to watch the latest exploits of the masked, mysterious champion of justice.

Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk-Seneca actor, played Tonto in The Lone Ranger, becoming one of the most prolific faces in the Western genre. Silverheels, previously a lacrosse player, took on the role of ...

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — To watch a snippet of “The Lone Ranger” is to empathize with the stoic looks of concern its star, Johnny Depp, deadpans throughout the action film. An apparently white man playing ...

Johnny Depp has spoken to Digital Spy about playing The Lone Ranger's Tonto and upcoming sci-fi movie Transcendence. The actor revealed that he was drawn to the Disney blockbuster, his second Western ...

Badass Digest (in case you missed the watermark) came across this pic of Johnny Depp posing for a picture with a fan on the set of The Lone Ranger. As you can see he looks a bit different from the ...

From director Gore Verbinski and producer JerryBruckheimer comes an adventure story fit to follow Pirates of the Caribbean: The Lone Ranger. The film’s basic cowboys and Indians storyline, based on ...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto are after an outlaw who is trying to leave the gang and go back to the wife and son he left years ago. The Lone Ranger is hot on the heels of the Kansas kid when he ...