Native American actor Gordon Tootoosis has died, aged 69.
The Canadian star, who played narrator One Stab in 1994 western Legends of the Fall, passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in Saskatoon.
Often playing Native Americans on film and TV, Tootoosis appeared in the 2007 adaptation of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and in TV movie Call of the Wild.
He was also a regular on Canadian TV. He acted on stage in Canada and was on the board of directors of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company.
He was born on Poundmaker Cree Nation land and toured with the Plains Intertribal Dance Troupe in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Canadian star, who played narrator One Stab in 1994 western Legends of the Fall, passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in Saskatoon.
Often playing Native Americans on film and TV, Tootoosis appeared in the 2007 adaptation of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and in TV movie Call of the Wild.
He was also a regular on Canadian TV. He acted on stage in Canada and was on the board of directors of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company.
He was born on Poundmaker Cree Nation land and toured with the Plains Intertribal Dance Troupe in the 1960s and 1970s.
- 7/7/2011
- WENN
Given the success of Warner’s Archive program, we’re thrilled to see other studios scouring their vaults for content aimed at the discerning cinephile. Here’s a release showcasing the latest coming from MGM via Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Los Angeles (April 14, 2011) – Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is bringing even more classics to DVD in April through its unique “manufacturing on demand” (“Mod”). The newest group of films will be part of the MGM Limited Edition Collection and available through online retailers. The vast catalog ranges from 1980’s Defiance to 1965’s four-time Academy Award® nominated A Thousand Clowns.
Enjoy your favorite movies from across the decades including:
1950′s
● Davey Crockett, Scout (1950): A U.S. military scout is assigned to stop Indian attacks on a defenseless group of wagon trains making their way West. Stars George Montgomery, Ellen Drew, Noah Beery Jr. Directed by Lew Landers.
● Cloudburst...
Los Angeles (April 14, 2011) – Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is bringing even more classics to DVD in April through its unique “manufacturing on demand” (“Mod”). The newest group of films will be part of the MGM Limited Edition Collection and available through online retailers. The vast catalog ranges from 1980’s Defiance to 1965’s four-time Academy Award® nominated A Thousand Clowns.
Enjoy your favorite movies from across the decades including:
1950′s
● Davey Crockett, Scout (1950): A U.S. military scout is assigned to stop Indian attacks on a defenseless group of wagon trains making their way West. Stars George Montgomery, Ellen Drew, Noah Beery Jr. Directed by Lew Landers.
● Cloudburst...
- 4/21/2011
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
No movie springs from a vacuum. There are always influences from past examples of the genre, from the previous work of the filmmakers and stars, even from similar films that don’t quite work. If you want to understand where a movie is coming from, take a look at where it’s coming from. In Alpha and Omega, two animated wolves -- a lowly cur (the voice of Justin Long) and a pack leader (the voice of Hayden Panettiere) -- are relocated by humans to another park and fall in love on the road trip home. This flick sprang from (among other films): • The Lion King (1994), for a revisit of the triumphant film about honor and family that this new flick is clearly hoping to imitate (a task it fails hopelessly at). • Balto (1995), the animated family film about a heroic wolf-dog hybrid who leads a sled team transporting lifesaving drugs across dangerous Alaskan terrain.
- 9/30/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
If you're making a movie about author Jack London, writer of such famed stories as Call of the Wild, White Fang and The Sea Wolf, you'd probably make an in-depth biopic on the trials and tribulations of the writer, his family and his battles against plagiarism accusations. But instead, writers Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon decided to turn London into a supernatural adventurer with the novel The Secret Journeys of Jack London: The Wild. Deadline reports Fox 2000 has acquired rights to the series, which follows a young Jack London, before he became a writer, as he treks through the frozen north during the Gold Rush. In the novel, London finds many perils in the Yukon Territory, some of them monstrous legends come to life in yet another re-imagining of a real-life man from history having his world turned into a fictional canvas of action and excitement. This project can...
- 5/25/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Fox 2000 has acquired movie rights to The Secret Journeys of Jack London: The Wild, the first installment of a young adult supernatural adventure series by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon. Harper Collins just acquired the series and will publish the first volume in March, 2011. Golden and Lebbon will write the script. Pete Donaldson will produce through his Donaldson Media and Consulting label. The story follows a young Jack London, before he became the author of Call of the Wild, White Fang and Sea Wolf. He treks the frozen north in the midst of the Gold Rush. He finds [...]...
- 5/24/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The upcoming “A-Team” movie is interesting because it's four stars enjoy different kinds of fame. You’ve got the respected veteran actor (Liam Neeson), the post-hype guy hoping to prove his recent blockbuster was no fluke (Bradley Cooper), the we-know-nothing-about-him-but-want-to-know-more up-and-comer (Sharlto Copley) and the non-actor whose fame was born outside of Hollywood, an “And introducing...” rookie whose career could take off (Quinton “Rampage” Jackson). Now, one of these guys might follow up the summer '10 TV adaptation by immediately re-teaming with director Joe Carnahan.
“There’s a thing I’m gonna do next called ‘The Grey, and I think there’s a very good chance that one of the members of this cast will do this film with me,” the “Smokin’ Aces” filmmaker revealed when we spoke to him recently about being one of our “10 to Watch in ‘10” selections. “We’ll be doing it soon.”
Carnahan wouldn’t specify whether it’s Neeson,...
“There’s a thing I’m gonna do next called ‘The Grey, and I think there’s a very good chance that one of the members of this cast will do this film with me,” the “Smokin’ Aces” filmmaker revealed when we spoke to him recently about being one of our “10 to Watch in ‘10” selections. “We’ll be doing it soon.”
Carnahan wouldn’t specify whether it’s Neeson,...
- 1/20/2010
- by Larry Carroll
- MTV Movies Blog
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