Bill GunnFilmography

Born:
January 1, 1930 in Philadelphia, PA
Occupation:
Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:
Bill Gunn was an important figure in the development of contemporary African American cinema. A versatile figure, Gunn also made substantial contributions to the theater, television and literature. His best-known film is Ganja and Hess, a passionate, lyrical vampire movie that blended African and...Read More

  • The Cosby Show: War Stories

    Synopsis: Cliff (Bill Cosby) resigns himself to another humiliating defeat when he plays pinochle with his dad Russell (Earl Hyman), Russell's cohort Homer (Bill Gunn), and the two old guys' Army buddy Sgt. Stokes (Jason Bernard), a notorious card cheat. Even worse, Cliff is unable to keep apace of the Read More

    1986

  • The Cosby Show: The Card Game

    Synopsis: Roscoe Lee Browne won an Emmy award for his first appearance as Dr. Barnabus Foster, Cliff's former college English professor and future recurring character on the Cosby Show spinoff A Different World. Having been regularly trounced at pinochle by his dad Russell (Earle Hyman) and Russell's old Read More

    1986

  • Losing Ground

    Synopsis: Losing Ground is a amusing but standard menage a trois, set in a small college town. The principle difference between this and other such films is that all the characters are African-American. Artist Bill Gunn is married to philosophy professor Seret Scott. She prides herself on being broad-minded Read More

    1982

  • Ganja and Hess

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Enrico Fales, Tara Fields

    Synopsis: A scientist stricken with an insatiable hunger for blood dominates this strikingly atmospheric drama. Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), a wealthy and respected African-American anthropologist, is assigned a new assistant, an intelligent but unstable man named George Meda (Bill Gunn). One drunken Read More

    1973

  • Stop

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Linda Marsh, Edward Bell, Marlene Clark, John Hoffmeister

    Synopsis: Yuppie-type Michael Berger (Edward Bell) and his bitter wife Lee (Linda Marsh) can barely stand each other as it is. Things don't get much better when they move to Puerto Rico to a house he just inherited from his brother, and the circumstances aren't all that auspicious. It seems his brother Read More

    1970

  • The Angel Levine

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster

    Synopsis: Bernard Malamud seldom saw his works faithfully transferred to the screen (take a look at The Natural sometime), but he issued no complaints over the cinemazation of his The Angel Levine. Zero Mostel plays an elderly Jew whose life experiences have left him an embittered agnostic. Into Mostel's Read More

    1970

  • The Landlord

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Marki Bey, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett, Jr.

    Synopsis: Wealthy, insensitive young Beau Bridges buys an inner-city tenement, planning to evict the present occupants and construct a luxury home for himself. But once he ventures into the tenement, he grows quite fond of the low-income ethnic types who dwell within. He even kicks over the traces of his Read More

    1970

  • Penelope

    Actors: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters

    Synopsis: Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy. Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) married James (Ian Bannen) after a very brief courtship, and as his star has begun to rise in the banking business, he spends less and less time Read More

    1966

  • The Spy with My Face

    Actors: Robert Vaughn, Senta Berger, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Evans

    Synopsis: Some extra footage was added to segments of two episodes from the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68) to create this feature film-length espionage adventure that was released theatrically in some countries to cash in on the James Bond craze. Ordered by their secret organization Read More

    1966

  • The Fugitive: Conspiracy of Silence

    Synopsis: Working as a bellboy at a desert resort hotel, Kimble (David Janssen)--or as he is now calling himself, "Fred Tate"--cannot help but notice that the manager is cancelling reservations and asking the other employees to leave. The mystery is resolved when several military officers show up at the Read More

    1965

  • The Interns

    Actors: Michael Callan, Cliff Robertson, James MacArthur, Nick Adams, Suzy Parker

    Synopsis: Using a technique that involves the kind of ensemble acting seen in later long-running, large-cast television programs, director David Swift has tried to tie together the stories of five young interns in this routine drama. One of the interns is a woman who is at odds with the chief surgeon (Telly Savalas Read More

    1962

  • The Sound and the Fury

    Actors: Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman, Ethel Waters

    Synopsis: In this filmed adaptation of William Faulkner's seminal work, Yul Brynner stars as Jason Compson, the oldest son of a once-proud Southern family rife with inner turmoil. His promiscuous sister, Caddy (Margaret Leighton), has suddenly rolled back into town with an illegitimate daughter called Read More

    1959

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