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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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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 6, 2019 · Sara occupies the first frame of the film, prim and proper in glasses and a teacherly beige blazer, lecturing. Her husband, Victor (Bill Gunn), is a free-spirited painter and her complete...
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.
Apr 19, 2023 · Duane Jones died in July 1988 and Bill Gunn the following April, before they could experience the cultural reappraisal and rerelease of their masterpiece.
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.
Jul 24, 2020 · A collaboration between two pioneering Black artists — writer Ishmael Green and director Bill Gunn — Personal Problems is a nearly three-hour-long chronicle of the everyday ups and downs of a middle-class Black couple in 1980 New York.
