Saginaw Grant, Noted Native American Character Actor, Dies

Saginaw Grant, veteran actor and writer, responds to a question during a news conference, at the Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 18, 2000. E.J. Flynn/AP Photo

LOS ANGELES—Saginaw Grant, a prolific Native American character actor and hereditary chief of the Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma, has died. He was 85.

Grant died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes on Wednesday at a private care facility in Hollywood, California, said Lani Carmichael, Grant’s publicist and longtime friend.