Follow TV Tropes

Following

Creator / Bill Gunn

Go To

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/view_1.jpeg
"To remember a man's name is to give him eternal life."

William Harrison Gunn (July 15, 1934 – April 5, 1989) was an American writer, actor, and film director. Underappreciated in his lifetime, he would be lauded by critics and creators, such as Spike Lee and Richard Brody, who called him "a visionary filmmaker left on the sidelines of the most ostensibly liberated period of American filmmaking."

Today, he is mostly known for writing, directing, and costarring in the Cult Classic vampire film Ganja & Hess (which Lee would remake as Da Sweet Blood of Jesus) and for playing Namana in the film The Spy with My Face and an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series.

Not to be confused with professional wrestler Billy Gunn.


Bibliography

  • Marcus in the High Grass (play) (1959)
  • All the Rest Have Died (novel) (1964)
  • Johnnas (play) (1968)
  • Black Picture Show (play) (1975)
  • Rhinestone Sharecropping (novel) (1981)
  • Family Employment (play) (1985)
  • The Forbidden City (play) (1989)


Filmography

    As a director 

    As a screenwriter 
  • Stop! (1970)
  • The Landlord (1970)
  • The Angel Levine (1970)
  • Ganja & Hess (1973)
  • The American Parade (1975) (1 episode)
  • Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)

    As an actor 
  • The Stranger (1954) as Joey Thompson (1 episode)
  • Look Up and Live (1957) as George (1 episode)
  • The Sound and the Fury (1959) as T.P.
  • Route 66 (1961) as Hank Plummer (1 episode)
  • Naked City (1961) as Al Norbert (1 episode)
  • The Defenders (1962) as Frank Reilly (1 episode)
  • The Interns (1962) as Rosco (uncredited)
  • Stoney Burke (1962–63) as Bud Sutter/Toby (2 episodes)
  • The Outer Limits (1963) as Lt. James P. Willowmore (1 episode)
  • The Doctors and the Nurses (1964) as Mike Harris (1 episode)
  • Dr. Kildare (1964) as Dr. Jesse Kamba (1 episode)
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) as Namana (1 episode)
  • The Spy with My Face (1965) as Namana
  • The Fugitive (1965) as Avery (1 episode)
  • Penelope (1966) as Sgt. Rothschild
  • Tarzan (1967) as Metusa (1 episode)
  • Ganja & Hess (1973) as George Meda
  • Losing Ground (1982) as Victor Rogers
  • The Cosby Show (1986) as Homer (2 episodes)


Top