Bill Gunn | |
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Born | William Harrison Gunn July 15, 1934 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
Died | April 5, 1989 (aged 54) Nyack, New York |
Occupation | Writer, director, actor |
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.[1][2][3] 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."[4] Filmmaker Spike Lee had said that Gunn is "one of the most under-appreciated filmmakers of his time."[5] Gunn's drama Johnnas won an Emmy Award in 1972.[6]
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