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George Clutesi est un Acteur né le 1 janvier 1905 à Port Alberni (Canada)

George Clutesi

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Naissance 1 janvier 1905 à Port Alberni (Canada)
Mort 27 février 1988 (à 83 ans) à Victoria (Canada)

George Clutesi, CM (1905 – 27 February 1988), was a Tseshaht artist, actor and writer, as well as an expert on and spokesman for Native Canadian culture.

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Clutesi was born in Port Alberni, British Columbia in 1905. He was raised in his mother's home village after her death when he was four. His father and aunts recognized his ability at an early age and encouraged him to develop his talent. He sought refuge in his art from the pressures brought to bear on him at the Alberni Residential School. At the school, the children were driven to forget their heritage and culture in an effort to force them to assimilate into white culture.

As an adult, he worked as a fisherman and as a pile driver in order to support his wife and five children. With the encouragement of friends, he began to paint in oils and to exhibit his work during the 1940s and 1950s. Emily Carr was so impressed with his work that in her will she left him her brushes, oils and unused canvases.
In 1947, he began to contribute essays to the Native Canadian newspaper, The Native Voice. While recovering from an on the job injury, he met the chief of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the Vancouver area, Ira Dilworth. With Dilworth's encouragement, he told stories from his heritage on CBC radio. He then wrote a play about the culture of the First Nation's peoples, They were a Happy Singing People. In 1961, he addressed the British Columbia Historical Association on Northwest Coast Native American art urging the preservation of Native American culture.

In 1959, he received the British Columbia Centennial Award and the Canadian Centennial Medal in 1967. Clutesi was commissioned to paint a mural for Expo 67. The University of Victoria granted him an Honorary Doctorate in Law in 1971. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1973.

Clutesi became one of British Columbia's first Native writers to gain recognition. His Son of Raven, Son of Deer (1967) was one of the first books written about First Nation culture by a Native American. It was followed by Potlatch (1969), which portrayed the Native American ritual. In the late 1970s, Clutesi appeared in four movies: Prophecy, Dreamspeaker, Nightwing, and Spirit of the Wind. He won a Canadian Film Award for his portrayal of a Native shaman in Dreamspeaker. Clutesi also appeared in a number television programs.

He died in Victoria in 1988, not long after his final television appearance on the CBC's first nations TV series Spirit Bay, in which he played an elder who helps the local children deal with questions about their native culture.

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Filmographie de George Clutesi (5 films)

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Toby McTeague, 1h36
Réalisé par Jean-Claude Lord
Origine Canada
Genres Drame, Action
Thèmes Films pour enfants
Acteurs Yannick Bisson, Winston Rekert, Evan Àdams, Stéphanie Morgenstern, Tom Rack, Timothy Webber
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Toby est un adolescent qui ne se soucie pas beaucoup de l'école. En fait, il a les yeux rivés sur le titre d'une prestigieuse course de traîneaux à chiens. Il devra suivre un entraînement intensif pour le gagner.
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Morsures (1979)
, 1h45
Réalisé par Arthur Hiller
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Horreur
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Film d'horreur avec des animaux
Acteurs Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Dr. Stephen Macht, Ben Piazza, Strother Martin
Rôle Abner Tasupi
Note52% 2.6023252.6023252.6023252.6023252.602325
Une espèce étrange de chauves-souris, porteuses du virus de la peste va terrorisé un coin reculé de l'Amérique où vivent des tribus indiennes déjà menacées par l'arrivée des hommes blancs...
Prophecy : Le Monstre, 1h42
Réalisé par John Frankenheimer
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Science-fiction, Horreur
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Film d'horreur avec des animaux
Acteurs Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire, Armand Assante, Richard A. Dysart, George Clutesi, Graham Jarvis
Rôle Hector M'Rai
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Le docteur Robert Verne, qui exerce sa profession de médecin dans un quartier pauvre de Washington, est engagé par l'Agence de Protection Gouvernementale pour enquêter sur d'éventuelles conséquences écologiques d'une usine de pâtes et papier sur une forêt située près d'Androscoggin dans le Maine. Dès son arrivée, avec sa femme Maggie, il perçoit la tension existant entre les employés de l'usine et les Indiens de la région, qui accusent l'industrie d'empoisonner la forêt. Dans leur village, naissent occasionnellement des enfants avec des malformations congénitales. Robert Verne s'aperçoit bientôt qu'il y a du mercure dans l'eau de la rivière qui alimente l'usine. C'est lui qui sert d'agent mutagène à l'origine des malformations congénitales des nouveau-nés. De plus, Verne et les autres doivent tout à coup affronter un énorme ours mutant, surnommé Kathadin par les Indiens, qui hante la forêt et y sème la mort et la terreur.
Spirit of the Wind, 1h38
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Aventure
Thèmes Sport
Acteurs George Clutesi, Slim Pickens, Chief Dan George
Rôle George's father
Note70% 3.5104353.5104353.5104353.5104353.510435
The movie is a semi-biographical story based upon the early life and rise to prominence of Native American dog musher George Attla, Jr. (1933–2015). Attla, known as "the Huslia Hustler," took his nickname from one of his mentors, Jimmy Huntington, who first began winning races during Attla's childhood. In recent generations, this nickname has become associated with Attla far more than with Huntington. Attla was a leading star of the 1960s and 1970s in the sport of sprint dog sled racing. He won the Fur Rendezvous World Championship race, held in Anchorage, Alaska, 10 times between 1958 and 1982. He also won 8 championships in the Open North American Championship race, held in Fairbanks, Alaska. In addition, despite his mushing experience being geared more towards sprint than distance racing, Attla competed in the inaugural Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1973, placing fifth. In a 2011 interview, Attla spoke of the popularity of the Iditarod, and how sprint racing "is now a second-class sport" as a result.