Joseph Runningfox

Joseph Runningfox

Born: January 1, 1955
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Joseph Runningfox (born 1955 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) is a Pueblo actor.

He was featured in Ravenous as George (credited as Joseph Running Fox) and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Movies for Joseph Runningfox...

Title: Dark Winds
Character: Henry Leaphorn
Released: June 12, 2022
Type: TV
This psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers, Leaphorn and Chee, in the 1970s Southwest as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts.
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Valley of the Gods
Title: Valley of the Gods
Character: Third Eye
Released: September 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A mix of fantasy and sci-fi, the film entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer, creating a fascinating, mysterious and idiosyncratic vision of America.
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Title: The Politician
Character: Shaman George
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: TV
Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.
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Viva Diva
Title: Viva Diva
Character: Gustavo
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Viva Diva is a road trip movie, centering on Rozene and Diva, as they make their way down to Guadalajara for gender reassignment surgery. Rozene stops in on her father to try to get answers about their fractured relationship, but drama stands in the way of her getting the closure that she seeks.
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Savaged
Title: Savaged
Character: Grey Wolf
Released: August 6, 2014
Type: Movie
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.
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Rites of Passage
Title: Rites of Passage
Character: Chumash Elder
Released: April 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Anthropology students and their professor experience terror when they visit a sacred burial ground.
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Ravenous
Title: Ravenous
Character: George
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Title: Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Character: Leonard Crow Dog
Released: October 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Geronimo
Released: December 5, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the greatest Native American warrior who, together with the rest of his Apache tribesmen, defied American and Mexican Armies in 1867. Finally caught and sent to a reservation camp, he eluded a military force of 5000 for 18 months before finally surrendering to the government.
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To Save a Child
Title: To Save a Child
Character: Toby Coldcreek
Released: September 8, 1991
Type: Movie
A doctor and his pregnant young wife move into a small New Mexico town. At first the locals are friendly and pleased to see them, but soon the wife begins to suspect that their new neighbors' motives are more than just hospitality.
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Blood Red
Title: Blood Red
Character: Samuel Joseph
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
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Roanoak
Title: Roanoak
Character: Wanchese
Released: May 26, 1986
Type: Movie
The story chronicles the first recorded meeting in the late 16th Century between British explorers-settlers and Native Americans in what is now North Carolina, and the conflicts that ensued between the two diverse cultures before this early settlement mysteriously vanished.
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Revolution
Title: Revolution
Character: Iroquois Indian
Released: December 25, 1985
Type: Movie
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.
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Porky's II: The Next Day
Title: Porky's II: The Next Day
Character: John Henry (as Joseph Runningfox)
Released: June 24, 1983
Type: Movie
When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious fanatic who brings along his flock of followers to pressure the school into shutting down the production.
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The Avenging
Title: The Avenging
Character: Pablo
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Gritty western telling the story of a family at war. One brother is out for vengeance after being kidnapped and wrongly imprisoned in Mexico.
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Seems Like Old Times
Title: Seems Like Old Times
Character: Thomas
Released: December 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex-wife who is now a public defender and has remarried — to a prosecutor.
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Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
Title: Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
Character: Ishi as a Teenager
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
A touching dramatization of a short chapter of American history, tracing the life of the last Yahi Indian from his childhood to his death in 1917 and the story of his friendship with an anthropologist after his discovery in northern California in 1911.