Bill Gunn
Birth : 1934-07-15, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Death : 1989-04-05
History
Bill Gunn was an American playwright, novelist, actor and film director. His 1973 cult classic horror film Ganja and Hess was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival, 1973. 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.” His drama Johnnas won an Emmy award in 1972.
Writer
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
Self
A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretching back to his childhood. What develops is the story of an intense young boy who yearned for stardom, achieved notable success in such classic films as From Here to Eternity and I Confess, only to be ruined by alcohol addiction and his inability to face his own fears and homosexual desires. Montgomery Clift, as this film portrays him, may not have been a happy man but he never compromised his acting talents for Hollywood.
Victor
Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
Editor
An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
Mr. Damien
An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
Director
An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
Director
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
Writer
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
George Meda
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
Writer
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
Screenplay
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
Writer
A married couple takes an extended holiday in Puerto Rico where their resentment and marital dysfunction begin to boil over. They meet an attractive couple who they invite over for dinner and soon start to learn about love and romance from their new friends. But it may be too late to save their marriage.
Director
A married couple takes an extended holiday in Puerto Rico where their resentment and marital dysfunction begin to boil over. They meet an attractive couple who they invite over for dinner and soon start to learn about love and romance from their new friends. But it may be too late to save their marriage.
Sgt. Rothschild
When James met Penelope at a club, it took all of three weeks before they were married. But after the marriage, other women became attracted to James and he kept getting promoted, which took him away from Penelope. So Penelope puts on a disguise and robs her husband's bank. Her psychiatrist, Greg, believes that this condition is caused by James being over worked and under romantic with Penelope. She also tells Greg that she robs the business associates of James. But Greg is in love with Penelope - in fact everyone likes her. The problem is when she confesses to her crimes, no one believes her.
Namana
Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.
Rosco (uncredited)
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
T.P.
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
Roy (uncredited)
In Toronto, early twenty-somethings Judy Monroe and Roy Kirby are in love and are planning to get married. They understand the obstacles they are facing as husband and wife as Judy is white and Roy is black.
