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He was an actor, known for Thunderheart (1992). He died on March 28, 1993 in Red Shirt, Montana, USA.

Was the second musician inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame. He was Lakota Sioux.

Children: Daughter: Tammy (born 1965), Richard Todd (11 November - 10 December 1966), Autumn Rose (7 September - November 1980).

Oglala Lakota Indian from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD. As a toddler, was with his mother at the Pine Ridge Jail. Buddy described memories of using a cigarette box to play “car” on the jail’s cell floor. Tribal judge Peter Two Bulls, Sr told his daughter Maisie and her husband, Steve Red Bow about the little boy in jail; they went in to see him, took him to their home along the White River, and raised him as their own. He grew up with the horses that ranged free in that “wide, open space” (Steve’s description), learning the equine mojo that served him later when he worked as the technical advisor in numerous Western films; at least once, in Buddy’s words, he “tried to teach Japanese extras how to ride like real Indians.”.
Richards was adopted into the Red Bow family at a young age. He grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Red Shirt, South Dakota and went to school in Rapid City, South Dakota. He dropped out of high school to become an actor and later served in the Vietnam War as a U.S. Marine in the 1960s.

Red Bow made several records in the 1980s and 1990s as a singer and musician. As an actor, he had minor roles in several Westerns, and a character in the 1989 film Powwow Highway, “Buddy Red Bow”, was based on his life.

He was posthumously inducted into the Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame in 1998.
• Hard Rider (soundtrack, 1972)
• BRB (1981)
• Journey to the Spirit World (1983)
• Black Hills Dreamer (1995)
• How the West Was Won (1962)
• Young Guns II (1990) (credited as Chief Buddy Redbow)
• Thunderheart (1992)

Red Bow died on March 28, 1993 in the Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, and was buried in Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery (Red Shirt).]