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2 Photos. 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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Bill Gunn, Black artist, transforms the symbols and the language that spurn us into action. It is the individual’s choice to listen. Whatever she does, with or without her, Gunn’s poetry continues to slide on, soaking in blue lilies and wet cherries, rambling ever forward.
Jul 29, 2021 · Bill Gunn’s third play, Black Picture Show, was first performed in early 1975 – a time when Hollywood’s backlots churned out Blaxploitation flicks while the American New Wave’s hip, younger, white male directors had it all: attention, respect and control.
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.
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 15, 2016 · Barely released in 1982 and all but unseen for over three decades, Kathleen Collins’s “Losing Ground” is a lively movie — as well as a ghostly one. Ms. Collins and her two male leads, Bill Gunn...
