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William Harrison Gunn (July 15, 1934 – April 5, 1989) was an American playwright, novelist, actor and film director. His 1973 cult classic horror film Ganja & Hess was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival, 1973.
Bill Gunn was born on 15 July 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Stop! (1970), Ganja & Hess (1973) and The Spy with My Face (1965). He died on 5 April 1989 in Nyack, New York, USA.
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Apr 7, 1989 · Bill Gunn, a playwright, screenwriter, novelist and actor, died Wednesday in Nyack (N.Y.) Hospital, one day before his play ''The Forbidden City'' opened at the Public Theater. He was 59 years...
Apr 20, 2021 · Bill Gunn, Black artist, transforms the symbols and the language that spurn us into action. It is the individual’s choice to listen. Whatever she does, with or without her, Gunn’s poetry continues to slide on, soaking in blue lilies and wet cherries, rambling ever forward.
Bill Gunn (1929-1989): Black Independent Filmmaker, Scenarist, Playwright, Novelist. A Critical Index of the Collected Film, Dramatic, and Literary Works. JOHN WILLIAMS.
May 13, 1973 · A prolific screenwriter, Gunn penned two significant post-Civil Rights era films—the Harry Belafonte vehicle The Angel Levine (1970), adapted from a Bernard Malamud story, and Hal Ashby’s race comedy The Landlord (1970), plus numerous unproduced scripts.
Today, Bill Gunn is most celebrated for his prolific work as both a writer—namely of 29 plays, two novels, and several screenplays—and as a director of three ground-shattering experimental films: the unreleased marital drama Stop!
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