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Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993) [1] was an American actor of stage and screen. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he is an alumnus of the Negro Ensemble Company. [2]
Moses Gunn was born on 2 October 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Shaft (1971), Rollerball (1975) and Heartbreak Ridge (1986). He was married to Gwendolyn Mumma Landes. He died on 16 December 1993 in Guilford, Connecticut, USA.
Moses Gunn was born on October 2, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Shaft (1971), Rollerball (1975) and Heartbreak Ridge (1986). He was married to Gwendolyn Mumma Landes. He died on December 16, 1993 in Guilford, Connecticut, USA.
Dec 20, 1993 · Moses Gunn, an actor whose career of more than three decades included roles ranging from Othello to Booker T. Washington, died on Friday at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was 64. The cause was...
Feb 16, 2020 · Moses Gunn was best known for his portrayal of mobster Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Jones in Gordon Park’s Shaft (1971). He reprised the role in Shaft’s Big Score (1972). In 1977, Gunn was nominated for an Emmy Award for his television role as Chieftain Kintango in Roots, the TV miniseries.
Moses Gunn was a leading actor of his generation who played a wide variety of roles on the stage, in films, and on television in a career that spanned more than 30 years. Gunn was perhaps best known as a Shakespearean actor, taking part in many productions of the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Nov 3, 2005 · MOSES GUNN, 64, actor; from complications of asthma; in Guilford, Connecticut. Cofounder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Gunn, the oldest of seven children of a St. Louis, Missouri, laborer,...
Dec 20, 1993 · Moses Gunn, an actor whose career of more than three decades included roles ranging from Othello to Booker T. Washington, died Friday at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was 64.
Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 17, 1993) was an American actor. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he co-founded the Negro Ensemble Company in the 1960s. His 1962 Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's The Blacks.
Moses Gunn was an American actor of stage and screen. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he is an alumnus of the Negro Ensemble Company. His 1962 off-Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's The Blacks, and his Broadway debut was in A Hand is on the Gate, an evening of African-American poetry.