Gordon Tootoosis
From Wikipedia. Gordon Tootoosis, CM (October 25, 1941 – July 5, 2011) was a First Nations actor of Cree and Stoney descent. Tootoosis was a descendant of Yellow Mud Blanket, brother of the famous Cree leader Pîhtokahanapiwiyin. He was acclaimed for his commitment to preserving his culture and to telling his people's stories. He once said, "Leadership is about submission to duty, not elevation to power." He served as a founding member of the board of directors of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. Tootoosis offered encouragement, support and training to aspiring Aboriginal actors. He served as a leading Cree activist both as a social worker and as a band chief. In Open Season and Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run, Tootoosis was the voice of Sheriff Gordy.
He was awarded membership in the Order of Canada on October 29, 2004. The investiture ceremony took place on September 9, 2005. His citation recognizes him as an inspirational role model for Aboriginal youth. It notes that as a veteran actor, he portrayed memorable characters in movie and television productions in Canada and the United States. Gordon Tootoosis first acting role was in the film Alien Thunder (1974), with Chief Dan George and Donald Sutherland. He portrayed Albert Golo in 52 episodes of North of 60 in the 1990s. He is best known to British audiences for playing the Native American Joe Saugus, who negotiates the purchase of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet series 3 (2002). Gordon appeared in the CBC Television mini-series By Way of the Stars with Eric Schweig as Black Thunder and Tantoo Cardinal as Franoise. He appeared in the award-winning movie Legends of the Fall (1994), and starred with Russell Means in Disney's Pocahontas (1995) and Song of Hiawatha (1997). In 1999, he and Tantoo Cardinal became founding members of the board of directors of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. In 2011, he appeared in Gordon Winter at the Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon and Prairie Scene in Ottawa, his first stage role in 15 years.
Tootoosis won a Gemini Award for his work on the animated show Wapos Bay: The Series and was nominated twice for his work on North of 60.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 15.309 |
Birthday | 1941-10-25 |
Place of Birth | Poundmaker Reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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1995
Pocahontas
6.926/5594
Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.
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Pocahontas
1992
Leaving Normal
6.2/24
Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the wa...
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Leaving Normal
1994
Legends of the Fall
7.4/2530
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unco...
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Legends of the Fall
2007
That Beautiful Somewhere
4/10
A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have curati...
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That Beautiful Somewhere
2006
Open Season
6.154/2706
Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule...
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Open Season
1992
Heritage Minutes: Peacemaker
0/0
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter...
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Heritage Minutes: Peacemaker
2007
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
6.5/109
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastm...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
1991
Black Robe
6.6/97
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians,...
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Black Robe
2000
Bear with Me
4.9/7
An orphaned bear cub is adopted by little Emily and her family. They name the cub Masha, raise her and release her back into the wild. Three years go...
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Bear with Me
2001
Nobody's Baby
5.5/25
Two not so bright small time crooks end up with a baby girl by "accident" and find a change in their lives. Billy (Ulrich) becomes the guy to take car...
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Nobody's Baby
2006
Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run
5.391/46
Based on the movie Open Season and found on the DVD, partners in crime Boog and Elliot try to raid an RV for fresh-baked bear claws.
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Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run
2011
Doomsday Prophecy
4.1/89
With the government agents on their trail, journalist Eric Fox and archaeologist Brook Calvin race against time to save the world after they find an a...
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Doomsday Prophecy
1995
Pocahontas: The Legend
5.8/15
Englishmen come to explore and settle the new world. There they find natives who are curious about their "firesticks" and strange customs.
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Pocahontas: The Legend
2007
Hybrid
4.5/16
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Hybrid
2003
Dreamkeeper
6.6/19
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Dreamkeeper
1987
Stone Fox
5/3
Little Willy must win a dog sled race in order to save his grandfather's cattle ranch.
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Stone Fox
1993
Call Of The Wild
6.9/8
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Bu...
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Call Of The Wild
2002
Now & Forever
5.5/4
Against a backdrop of clashing cultures, John Myron and Angela Wilson find each other and over the years form a powerful bond. One tragic night, John...
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Now & Forever
1977
Amisk
7/1
A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was...
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Amisk
2001
Dream Storm: A North of 60 Mystery
0/0
The body of a trapper from the community of Swan Landing washes up on the banks of Lynx River while the two towns are in bitter negotiations over a ne...
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Dream Storm: A North of 60 Mystery
2004
7 Times Lucky
6.2/7
An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
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7 Times Lucky
2001
The Doe Boy
5.7/6
A Cherokee boy is a haemophiliac in a culture obsessed with blood identity.
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The Doe Boy
2005
Hank Williams First Nation
4/1
An elderly Cree man decides that before he dies he must travel via Greyhound from his remote Indian Reservation in Northern Canada, into the southern...
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Hank Williams First Nation
1997
Song of Hiawatha
10/1
This adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of a mighty Ojibwe leader as he falls in love and strives for peace.
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Song of Hiawatha
1978
Marie Ann
0/0
A young married woman, after a kidnapping, becomes attached to an Indian.
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Marie Ann
1996
Crazy Horse
9.5/7
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
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Crazy Horse
2005
Fugitives Run
0/0
There's never a dull moment from the time Clint Northern meets Dan John Fighting Bear at his granddaughter's birthday party. The two take an instant d...
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Fugitives Run
2000
Reindeer Games
5.687/641
After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
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Reindeer Games
1999
Lakota Moon
0/0
This movie depicts the life of a small Indian tribe, in a time shortly before the white men became a threat. In the focus of the story is the young Sk...
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Lakota Moon
1992
Lost in the Barrens II: The Curse of the Viking Grave
5/1
An archaeological expedition journeys to Manitoba, Canada, in search of a legendary crucifix supposedly buried in an ancient Viking grave.
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Lost in the Barrens II: The Curse of the Viking Grave
1993
Spirit Rider
6/2
Jesse Threebears is a troubled Native-American teen who has been tossed from one foster home to the next since his mother died when he was an infant....
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Spirit Rider
1996
Coyote Summer
6.143/7
Teenage Callie has a wild streak. When her mother goes to London on business, she sends Callie to her sister's ranch for a dose of hard work and respo...
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Coyote Summer
2002
Black Point
5.8/11
In an Alaskan fishing town, a local crime boss suspects a local fisherman knows where his stolen money is, but this fisherman is no regular Joe.
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Black Point
1997
Keeping the Promise
5.5/3
A colonial family seeks a better life in Maine's wilderness in this powerful adventure. When William Hallowell leaves behind 13-year-old son Matt to s...
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Keeping the Promise
1996
Lone Star
7/348
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
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Lone Star
1974
Alien Thunder
4.3/7
Saskatchewan, Canada, late 19th century. The negligence of Dan Candy, sergeant of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, allows Almighty Voice, a young Cr...
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Alien Thunder
2003
On the Corner
6.6/8
Angel and Randy Henry are a sister and brother, caught on the mean streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. While Angel finds the strength to escape...
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On the Corner
2012
Guns, Girls and Gambling
5.357/112
The story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a cha...
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Guns, Girls and Gambling
1991
Blood River
4.5/4
Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy's parents for their...
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Blood River
1989
Last Train Home
0.5/0
Tom Bradshaw searches for his family while riding the rails in this family drama set in the 1880s.
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Last Train Home
1998
Big Bear
0/0
The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land against the Canadian government in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Big Bear
1997
Forgotten Warriors
0/0
This documentary introduces us to thousands of Indigenous Canadians who enlisted and fought alongside their countrymen and women during World War II,...
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Forgotten Warriors
1996
Alaska
5.754/130
Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper acro...
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Alaska
2003
Cowboys & Indians
6.5/2
A police constable guns down a First Nations chief one snow night in Winnipeg, a tragedy that will impact the community for years to come.
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Cowboys & Indians
2006
Mr. Soul
0/0
A serial killer preys on prostitutes from the mean streets of a small, mid-west city as the police turn a blind eye. With an insatiable sexual appetit...
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Mr. Soul
2002
Christmas at Wapos Bay
0/0
Christmas at Wapos Bya starts with a Mushom's (grandfather's) need to pass along the ancient tradition of hunting. Food is running low and Christmas i...
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Christmas at Wapos Bay
2008
Out In the Cold
0/0
On a night so cold it hurts to breathe, Soft as Snow and Cold as Ice meet Thomas, a drunk young man, who's been dumped on the outskirts of town. When...
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