(born Espera Oscar de Corti April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) He was an American actor born in Louisiana. Going by the name of Iron Eyes Cody, he portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films. In 1996, his 100 percent Italian ancestry was confirmed by his half-sister. Cody was born Espera Oscar de Corti on April 3, 1904, in Kaplan in Vermilion Parish , in southwestern Louisiana , a second son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily . He had two brothers, Joseph William and Frank Henry, and a sister Victoria. His parents had a local grocery store in Gueydan , Louisiana, where he grew up. His father left the family and moved to Texas , where he anglicized his name as Tony Corti. His mother married Alton Abshire and had five more children with him. When the three de Corti brothers were teenagers, they joined their...