Bill 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.

Known For

The Fugitive

The Cosby Show

The Outer Limits

The Interns

Penelope

The Sound and the Fury

The Spy with My Face

Ganja & Hess

All Movies (10)

• Montgomery Clift1983 · as Self
• Losing Ground1982 · as Victor
• Personal Problems1980 · as Mr. Damien
• Ganja & Hess1973 · as George Meda
• Penelope1966 · as Sgt. Rothschild
• The Spy with My Face1965 · as Namana
• The Interns1962 · as Rosco
• The Sound and the Fury1959 · as T.P.
• Crossroads1957 · as Roy (uncredited)
• Baby Got Personal Problems— · as Self

All TV Shows (3)

• The Cosby Show1984 · as Homer
• The Fugitive1963 · as Avery
• The Outer Limits1963 · as Lt. James P. Willowmore