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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
