Joseph Runningfox
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Joseph Runningfox is a Pueblo
Pueblo
Pueblo is a term used to describe modern communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States of America. The first Spanish explorers of the Southwest used this term to describe the communities housed in apartment-like structures built of stone, adobe mud, and other local material...

 actor who resides in Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

, New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

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He was featured in Ravenous
Ravenous
Ravenous is a 1999 horror film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Jeffrey Jones. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party and that of Alferd Packer...

as George (although credited as Joseph Running Fox) and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...

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Runningfox played Geronimo
Geronimo
Geronimo was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. Allegedly, "Geronimo" was the name given to him during a Mexican incident...

 in a 1993 TV film with the same name
Geronimo (TV film)
Joseph Runningfox starred in a 1993 TNT television movie as Geronimo. First Nations actor Jimmy Herman appeared in this motion picture as the Old Geronimo...

. It premiered on TNT five days before Geronimo: An American Legend
Geronimo: An American Legend
Geronimo: An American Legend is a 1993 film, starring Wes Studi as Geronimo, Jason Patric as 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood, Gene Hackman as Brig. Gen. George Crook, Robert Duvall as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber, and Matt Damon as 2nd Lt. Britton Davis. The film was directed by Walter Hill from a...

 was released theatrically and was shot in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

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Filmography

  • Ravenous
    Ravenous
    Ravenous is a 1999 horror film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Jeffrey Jones. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party and that of Alferd Packer...

  • Ishi the Last of his Tribe
  • Seems like Old Times
    Seems Like Old Times
    "Seems Like Old Times" can refer to:*Seems Like Old Times , a 1980 comedy starring Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn*"Seems Like Old Times" , a popular song, theme of Arthur Godfrey's radio programs...

  • Porky's II: The Next Day
    Porky's II: The Next Day
    Porky's II: The Next Day is the 1983 sequel to the 1982 film Porky's. The film is written and directed by Bob Clark.-Plot:After dealing to Porky the "fatal" blow that was coming to him, the gang from Angel Beach is ready for a new challenge: The High School Drama Club is producing a Shakespeare...

  • Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
    Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
    Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee is a 1994 TNT original movie starring Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal, Pato Hoffmann, Joseph Runningfox, Lawrence Bayne, and Michael Horse and August Schellenberg....

     - Leonard Crow Dog

Thief of Time

Television roles

  • Geronimo
    Geronimo (TV film)
    Joseph Runningfox starred in a 1993 TNT television movie as Geronimo. First Nations actor Jimmy Herman appeared in this motion picture as the Old Geronimo...

    (1993)
  • To Save a child
  • A Thief of Time
  • The young Riders
  • Ishi, Americas last "wild" Indian

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