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James Edward Gunn (August 22, 1920, San Francisco, California – September 22, 1966, Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television screenwriter and producer. He attended Stanford University. His credits include Affair in Trinidad, The Young Philadelphians, The Unfaithful, Over-Exposed, Man from 1997 on the television series ...
Writer: Guardians of the Galaxy. James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers.
- Writer, Producer, Director
- August 5, 1966
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Gunn was born in San Francisco in 1920 and was known for his work in hardboiled fiction and crime stories, including the TV detective series 77 Sunset Strip, Checkmate, and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
Born in San Francisco in 1920, he wrote his first novel, Deadlier Than the Male, in 1942 as part of an assignment for a class he was taking. He made his screenwriting debut soon after with the screenplay to William Wellman's Lady of Burlesque (1943), starring Barbara Stanwyck and based on the Gypsy Rose Lee mystery novel The G-String Murders.
- August 22, 1920
- September 20, 1966
He became the first screenwriter in history to write back-to-back hits standing at #1 at the weekend box office, with the critically-acclaimed and re-imagined “Dawn of the Dead” on March 19, 2004 and “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” on March 26, 2004.
Mar 26, 2004 · Screenwriter James Gunn got his start working at Troma, the legendary B-movie house most known for the Toxic Avenger series. While there, Gunn wrote and produced his first film, Tromeo and...
Jan 8, 2022 · James Francis Gunn Jr. is an American filmmaker, executive and actor. He began his career as a screenwriter in the mid-1990s, starting at Troma Entertainment
