He appeared – often uncredited – in dozens of Western movies and television series, usually playing an Indian warrior or chief.
His father was Anthony "Godance" Soldani, an Osage farmer, and Katherine Fronkier, a Kaw woman, both originally from Kansas.
He attended the University of Notre Dame, where he played tackle on a football team[2] and performed in staged productions.
After serving in World War I where he achieved second lieutenant,[1] he worked as a car salesman and married Madeline Montgomery in Indianapolis, whom he eventually divorced.
Soldani remarried in 1934 to Joice L. Gardner in Yuma, Arizona, whom he lived with in the Los Angeles area until his death in 1968.