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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, 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.
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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Bill Gunn (1929-1989): Black Independent Filmmaker, Scenarist, Playwright, Novelist. A Critical Index of the Collected Film, Dramatic, and Literary Works. JOHN WILLIAMS.
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! (1970) and the gothic horror-romance Ganja and Hess (1973), both of which were written by Gunn, and the two ...
The Bill Gunn Papers (1948-1994) document the extent of his career as a playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, and contain material about his acting and directing accomplishments. Included in the collection are annotated drafts and final versions of play scripts, screenplays, teleplays, novels and short stories, and related programs, reviews ...
Bill Gunn was a pioneer of Black independent cinema and his influence can still be felt today. Gunn’s contributions as a writer, director, and actor span genres from psychological vampire-filled horror, to experimental soap opera shot on tape.
