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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.
Bill Gunn was born on 15 July 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Stop! (1970), Ganja & Hess (1973) and The Spy with My Face (1965). He died on 5 April 1989 in Nyack, New York, USA.
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Gunn was a pioneer of black filmmaking, and in 1970 he became the second black filmmaker to direct a film for a major studio with his directorial debut Stop, of which he also served as the film’s screenwriter, co-producer, and casting director.
Today, Bill Gunn is most celebrated for his prolific work as both a writer—namely of 29 plays, two novels, and several screenplays—and as a director of three ground-shattering experimental films: the unreleased marital drama Stop!
Bill Gunn was born on July 15, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Stop! (1970), Ganja & Hess (1973) and The Spy with My Face (1965). He died on April 5, 1989 in Nyack, New York, USA.
One of the most underrated "crossover" films of our age, the film is a veritable mirror of black-white political-social attitudes of the late 60s/ early 70s, featuring an interracial cast including Diana Sands, Beau Bridges, Louis Gossett, Jr., Lee Grant, Mel Stewart, and Pearl Bailey.
20 de abr. de 2021 · 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.
