Bill Gunn
Birthday
1934/07/15
Day of death
1989/04/05 (54 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also know as
William Gunn
Biography
Bill Gunn was an American playwright, novelist, actor and film director. His 1973 cult classic horror film Ganja and Hess was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival, 1973. In the New Yorker, film critic Richard Brody described him as being “a visionary filmmaker left on the sidelines of the most ostensibly liberated period of American filmmaking.” His drama Johnnas won an Emmy award in 1972.
Acting
(1973) Ganja & Hess
as George Meda
(1982) Losing Ground
as Victor
(1965) The Spy with My Face
as Namana
(1957) Crossroads
as Roy (uncredited)
(1980) Personal Problems
as Mr. Damien
(1959) The Sound and the Fury
as T.P.
(1966) Penelope
as Sgt. Rothschild
(1962) The Interns
as Rosco
(1983) Montgomery Clift
as Self
(1963) The Fugitive
as Avery
(1963) The Outer Limits
as Lt. James P. Willowmore
(1984) The Cosby Show
as Homer