Actor
Bill Gunn
July 15, 1934 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Notable work
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Full filmography · 14
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Writer
20154.7
Losing Ground
as Victor
19826.2
Personal Problems
as Mr. Damien and Director
1980
Ganja & Hess
as George Meda and Writer and Director
19735.8
The Angel Levine
Writer
1970
Stop!
Writer and Director
1970
Penelope
as Sgt. Rothschild
19665.4
The Spy with My Face
as Namana
1965
The Interns
as Rosco
1962
The Sound and the Fury
as T.P.
1959
Crossroads
as Roy (uncredited)
1957