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Dec 10, 2015 · Gordon married his wife, Irene Seseequasis, who had her Masters in Social Work, in 1965. The couple was married for 46 years and had three daughters and two adopted sons. When their youngest children moved out, they inherited four grandchildren to raise after their daughter Glynis died of cancer in October 1997.
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His first acting role was in the film Alien Thunder (1974), alongside 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, P...
Tootoosis was raised with his 13 siblings in the Plains Cree tradition until he was forced from his home; taking indigenous children away from their communities and into residential schools was Canadian government policy at the time. Tootoosis was placed in a Catholic residential school, where he was treated harshly and forbidden to speak his own l...
Gordon Tootoosis at IMDbDec 22, 2017 · Had he lived, Gordon Tootoosis’ star could only rise higher, but the talented and elegant actor succumbed to pneumonia on July 5, 2011. He was 69. Tootoosis was best known for his roles as the enigmatic One Stab in the movie “Legends of the Fall” and wicked Albert Golo in the television series “North of 60”.
Jul 5, 2011 · Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73030046/gordon-tootoosis: accessed ), memorial page for Gordon Tootoosis (25 Oct 1941–5 Jul 2011), Find a Grave Memorial ID 73030046, citing Poundmaker cemetery, Poundmaker, Kindersley Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; Maintained by Doreen (contributor 47131731).
- Poundmaker, Saskatchewan
- October 25, 1941
- Saskatchewan, Canada
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Jan 21, 2018 · Genealogy for Irene Tootoosis (Seseequasis) (deceased) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Tootoosis lived with his wife of over 40 years, Irene Seseequasis, on the Poundmaker Reserve, where he was buried after his death in 2011. He was a member of the Cree tribe. Home
