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Bill Gunn. Actor: Ganja & Hess. Bill Gunn was born on 15 July 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Ganja & Hess (1973), Stop! (1970) and The Spy with My Face (1965). He died on 5 April 1989 in Nyack, New York, USA.
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Jul 29, 2021 · While it’s true that Gunn’s career was often sidelined and stifled, his body of work – resistant as it is to interpretive closure and critical pigeonholing – contains in its frenzied forms and textures a simmering protest against the finality of art and death itself.
Mar 30, 2018 · Gunn died in 1989, though Reed remains to introduce on opening night this rough and ragged work of a bygone time, bursting with emotion and ideas, trailing loose threads just waiting to be taken up by some intrepid soul.
Mar 25, 2017 · Lola Albright, an alluring actress who was perhaps best known for her role as a sultry nightclub singer in the noirish television detective series “Peter Gunn,” died March 23 in Los Angeles....
Dec 29, 2017 · Who died in the past 12 months? Take a look at some of the famous faces no longer with us at the end of 2017.
Apr 28, 2016 · Bill Gunn, while too obscure for household name status, is regarded as an icon of black independent filmmaking. Throughout his thirty-year career as an actor, playwright, novelist and filmmaker, until his untimely death in 1989, he amassed a rich oeuvre of creative work, both published and produced, unreleased and unrealized.
The cancellations that take place in such spaces are extended, as Gunn soon understood in the 1950s, into the Hollywood movie industry, where images of a knotty Black subjectivity are policed, watered down, or outright denied.
