Bill Gunn

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Bill Gunn

Born 1934-07-15 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 10 films

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.

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Filmography

10 films
Losing Ground poster

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the…

Losing Ground

★ 6.2 1982

Ganja & Hess poster

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable…

Ganja & Hess

★ 5.8 1973

Penelope poster

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay m…

Penelope

★ 5.4 1966

The Interns poster

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo bo…

The Interns

★ 6.0 1962

Crossroads poster

In Toronto, early twenty-somethings Judy Monroe and Roy Kirby are in love and are planning to get m…

Crossroads

★ 10.0 1957