Career
One of his more recognized roles was as John Taylor on the 1988-1991 Columbia Broadcasting System western television series, Paradise, starring Lee Horsley as the reformed gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord. Berti appeared in guest-starring roles on many television programs from the 1950s through the 1980s, primarily in westerns such as Bonanza and Gunsmoke, but in other roles as well. In 1963, he played the Indian, Little Buffalo, in the episode "The Day of the Flying Dutchman" on American Broadcasting Company"s western series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, starring child actor Kurt Russell.
Lloyd Corrigan played the lead guest-starring role as Captain Rembrandt Van Creel.
In 1982 he costarred as One Feather on the short-lived National Broadcasting Company drama series Born to the Wind. Berti"s final appearance was on a 1990 episode of the sitcom, Saved by the Bell.
Since 1982, Berti can be heard as the voice of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce in The American Adventure at Walt Disney World"s Epcot Center in Florida. Berti died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California on November 26, 1991, at the age of 70.
He is interred there at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.