Bill Gunn

    Bill Gunn

    July 15, 1934 (90 years old) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    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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    The FugitiveThe Fugitive
    The Cosby ShowThe Cosby Show
    The Outer LimitsThe Outer Limits
    PenelopePenelope
    Losing GroundLosing Ground

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