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Chris Eyre

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Born: December 4, 1968
From: Portland, Oregon, USA

Biography

An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, Chris Eyre gained national attention in 1998 with the movie Smoke Signals. People Magazine called him "the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time."

Known for

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Friday Night Lights

2022 Series 7.5

Smoke Signals

American Experience

1988 Series 6.5

Ishi's Return

Filmography

26 displayed · 26 matching · 26 total

2025

Iinniiwa: The Blackfeet Buffalo Story

Production (Executive Producer)

Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning

Directing (Director)

2022

Directing (Director) 13 EPProduction (Executive Producer) 22 EP

2021

We Are Still Here

Acting (Self)

2018

Growing Native Alaska: People of the North

Acting (Self)

Growing Native Northwest: Coast Salish

Acting (Self)

2017

Memories of Miss O'Keeffe

Directing (Director)

2016

Ishi's Return

Directing (Director)

2015

The Seventh Fire

Production (Executive Producer)

2011

California Indian

Production (Producer)

Directing (Director)

2010

Acting (Self)

2009

We Shall Remain

Directing (Director) 3 EP

2007

Production (Producer)

2006

Friday Night Lights

Directing (Director) 2 EP

Acting (Self)

2005

A Thousand Roads

Directing (Director)

2004

A Thief Of Time

Directing (Director)

2003

Edge of America

Directing (Director) Production (Producer)

2002

Skinwalkers

Acting (Tribal Judge Amadeus Pinto) Directing (Director)

Acting (Cop) Directing (Director)

2001

The Doe Boy

Production (Producer)

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Directing (Director) 1 EP

1998

Smoke Signals

Directing (Director) Production (Co-Producer)

1988

American Experience

Directing (Director) 3 EP

POV

Production (Executive Producer) 1 EPProduction (Producer) 1 EP