Gordon Tootoosis
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Gordon Tootoosis (born in Poundmaker, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian actor of Cree and Stoney descent.
Tootoosis's first acting role was in the film Alien Thunder (1973), with Chief Dan George and Donald Sutherland. He is best known to British audiences for playing the Native American Indian Joe, who negotiates the purchase of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet series 3 (2002).
Tootoosis has been married to Irene Seseequasis since 1965. They have three daughters and two adopted sons. After their daughter Glynnis died of cancer in 1997, they took the responsibility of raising her four children.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Stone Fox (1987)
- Black Robe (1991)
- Leaving Normal (1992)
- North of 60 (1992, TV series)
- Legends of the Fall (1994)
- Pocahontas (1995) (voice for animated film)
- Lone Star (1996)
- Song of Hiawatha (1997)
- The Edge (film)
- Reindeer Games (2000)
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (2002, TV series)
- Moccasin Flats (2003)
- Shania: A Life in Eight Albums (2005)
- Hank Williams First Nation (2005) and TV series
- "Open Season (film)" (2006)
- Native Spirit and The Sun Dance Way 2-DVD Set (2007)
