Bill Gunn

Bill Gunn

Nacimiento : 1934-07-15, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 1989-04-05

Historia

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.

Perfil

Bill Gunn

Películas

The Sweet Blood of Jesus
Writer
Escrita por el propio Spike Lee, la película recupera la premisa inicial del film de Bill Gunn y nos introduce en un universo donde cohabitan seres humanos adictos a la sangre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Montgomery Clift
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.
Losing Ground
Victor
Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
Personal Problems
Editor
An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
Personal Problems
Mr. Damien
An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
Personal Problems
Director
An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
Ganja & Hess
Director
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
Ganja & Hess
Writer
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
Ganja & Hess
George Meda
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
El angel Levine
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?
El casero
Screenplay
Elgar es un joven rico y aburrido que compra un edificio de apartamentos en un barrio humilde. Planea desalojar a los inquilinos y renovar el edificio pero, sorprendentemente, abandona la casa donde vive y decide mudarse al edificio que acaba de comprar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Stop!
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.
Stop!
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.
Penélope
Sgt. Rothschild
Comedia sobre la inestable, aburrida y cleptómana esposa de un banquero que llega a robar 60.000 dólares del banco de su marido.
Un espía con mi cara
Namana
Un grupo de científicos están investigando sobre un arma que pueda defender al planeta Tierra de una posible invasión de extraterrestres. También se dan cuenta de que si este arma pudiera caer en malas manos sería la destrucción total de la Tierra. Por todo esto deciden ocultar la fórmula en un remoto lugar de los Alpes suizos. La misión de guardar el arsenal recae en Alejandro Waverly, un agente internacional de las Naciones Unidas. Pero, a pesar de todo su sigilo, la información de la existencia de esta fórmula llega a oidos de una organización criminal que quiere hacerse con el control de todo el mundo.
The Interns
Rosco (uncredited)
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
El ruido y la furia
T.P.
Basada en la novela homónima de William Faulkner, narra las vidas y las pasiones de los Compsons, una rígida e ilustre familia del Sur de los Estados Unidos que vive una grave crisis financiera y emocional. Howard (John Beal) se pasa el tiempo bebiendo, su hermano Bengy (Jack Warden) es un niño en el cuerpo de un hombre, Jason (Yul Brynner) es el más sereno de la familia. Y Quentin (Joanne Woodward), que es la narradora, es la única que tiene el coraje necesario para evitar la desintegración de su familia.
Crossroads
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.