Acting Career
In the early 1960s, The Ames Brothers disbanded, and Ed Ames, pursuing a career in acting, studied at the Herbert Berghoff School. His first starring role was in an Off Broadway production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, going on to starring performances in The Fantasticks and Carnival!, which was on Broadway. He was in the national touring company of Carnival.
Ames' dark complexion and facial bone structure led to his being cast regularly as an American Indian. He played Chief Bromden in the Broadway production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, opposite Kirk Douglas.
Talent scouts at 20th Century Fox saw Ed in the production and invited him to play the American Indian Mingo on the television show Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, and Veronica Cartwright. In two episodes of Season One, Ames also portrayed Mingo's evil twin brother, Caramingo.. Ames also played a bandit on a 1962 The Rifleman episode.
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