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William Harrison 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." Filmmaker Spike Lee had said that Gunn is “one of the most under-appreciated filmmakers of his time.”
Gunn's drama Johnnas won an Emmy award in 1972.
Birth Name
William Harrison Gunn
Born
Monday, 15 July 1929
Died
Wednesday, 05 April 1989
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Cosby Show | Homer | 1984 |
Losing Ground | Victor | 1983 |
Montgomery Clift | Self / Himself | 1983 |
Personal Problems | Mr. Damien | 1980 |
Ganja & Hess | George Meda | 1973 |
Penelope | Sgt. Rothschild | 1966 |
Tarzan | Metusa | 1966 |
The Spy with My Face | Namana | 1965 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Namana | 1964 |
The Fugitive | Avery | 1963 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Cosby Show | Homer | 1984 |
Losing Ground | Victor | 1983 |
Montgomery Clift | Self / Himself | 1983 |
Personal Problems | Mr. Damien | 1980 |
Ganja & Hess | George Meda | 1973 |
Penelope | Sgt. Rothschild | 1966 |
Tarzan | Metusa | 1966 |
The Spy with My Face | Namana | 1965 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Namana | 1964 |
The Fugitive | Avery | 1963 |
The Outer Limits | Lt. James P. Willowmore | 1963 |
Stoney Burke | Toby / Bud Sutter | 1962 |
The Doctors and the Nurses | Mike Harris | 1962 |
The Interns | Rosco | 1962 |
Dr. Kildare | Dr. Jesse Kamba | 1961 |
The Defenders | Frank Reilly | 1961 |
Route 66 | Hank Plummer - The Memphis Naturals | 1960 |
The Sound and the Fury | T.P. / T.P. - Dilsey's Grandson | 1959 |
Naked City | Al Norbert | 1958 |
Producers' Showcase | Self | 1954 |
The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Personal Problems | 1980 |
Ganja & Hess | 1973 |
Stop! | 1970 |