Bill Gunn
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 | Writing |
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Most Rating | 8.246 |
Birthday | 1934-07-15 |
Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | William Gunn, |
1973
Ganja & Hess
5.8/58
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
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Ganja & Hess
1982
Losing Ground
6/18
Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
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Losing Ground
1965
The Spy with My Face
5.5/11
Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.
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The Spy with My Face
1957
Crossroads
0/0
In Toronto, early twenty-somethings Judy Monroe and Roy Kirby are in love and are planning to get married. They understand the obstacles they are faci...
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Crossroads
1980
Personal Problems
7.3/7
An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
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Personal Problems
1959
The Sound and the Fury
6.6/15
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fo...
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The Sound and the Fury
1966
Penelope
5.6/19
When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disgu...
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Penelope
1962
The Interns
5.4/7
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
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The Interns
1983
Montgomery Clift
4.4/5
A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretch...
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Montgomery Clift
1956
The Army Game
0/0
Danny considers his time in the army a waste and pretends to be crazy to get a psychiatric discharge.
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