Gunn, Bill

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Name (Latin)
Gunn, Bill
Date of birth
1929-07-15
Date of death
1989-04-05
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Air pilots
Air pilots, Military
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
Novelist
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 306355148
Wikidata: Q862154
Library of congress: no2015040704
TAU10: 000278073
Sources of Information

Wikipedia description:

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. 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." Filmmaker Spike Lee had said that Gunn is "one of the most under-appreciated filmmakers of his time." Gunn's drama Johnnas won an Emmy Award in 1972.

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