Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS!
The actor, who is part Cherokee, was given the name Starkeeper. The 30-minute ceremony was conducted Sunday in Porcupine, a hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Louis Diamond Phillips (né Upchurch; born February 17, 1962) is a Filipino-American actor and film director . his breakthrough came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama film La B he played a main character named Henry Standing Bear in the television series longmire . his mother is a native of Candelaria, Zambales, and his father was an american of Scots-Irish in 1988, he co-starred with Edward James Olmos in the inner-city high school drama Stand and Deliver . he plays angel David Guzman, a cholo gangster who is inspired by his math in 1988 Phillips co-starred with Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland in the Western films Young Guns . in the mid-1990s, he was a vocalist with the los angeles Phillips currently hosts the weekly series An Officer and a Movie on the Military Channel . in 2003, he starred in a cameo role with Harrison Ford in an action-comedy film Hollywood Homicide. Phillips: Celebrity Cook-Off. On January 29, 2012, he was announced as the winner . he won $50,000 for his charity . in 2012, Philips began co-starring in the television series Longmire . he played Henry Standing Bear, a Native American . in 2014, he replaced the injured Jason Scott Lee in opera australia’s production of in 2019 Aethon Books announced that it would be publishing Phillips’ debut novel, Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira, illustrated by his wife, Yvonne . in 2019, a science fiction retelling Phillips placed 31st of 403 entrants in the 2009 California State Poker Championship Limit Texas hold ’em . he won $10,000 during the July 2009 World Series of Poker World Championship No Limit main event . on the set of the film Shadow of the Wolf, Cypher met Jennifer Tilly . he later married penthouse model and television extra, Kelly Phillips . the couple separated in 2004, their divorce was finalized in July Phillips was arrested for driving while intoxicated in Portland, Texas . he was released from jail after posting bail in the amount of $2,500 . in a plea deal, he is sentenced to two years of probation Phillips is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism . 1993 – Oxfam America award for his dedication toward ending world hunger . 1996 – Tony Award nominee for Best Actor on Broadway