Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton Trivia
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Trivia
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Gunton's TV Movie Credits: 1990 - Judgment 1991 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis 1992 - Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life, Ladykiller, Sinatra, Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster 1993 - Murder in the Heartland 1994 - Roswell 1995 - In Pursuit of Honor, Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long 1996 - The Siege at Ruby Ridge 1997 - Elvis Meets Nixon 2000 - Running Mates 2001 - When Billie Beat Bobby 2004 - Judas 2005 - Fur on the Asphalt: The Greg the Bunny Reunion Show 2007 - Imperfect Union, Pandemic
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Gunton is a character actor who has been known to play prominent authority figures such as a warden in The Shawshank Redemption, a college dean in Patch Adams, and a bishop in Changing Habits.
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Gunton received a Drama Desk Award in 1980 for his portrayal of Juan Peron in the Broadway musical Evita.
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Gunton has played the role of three different U.S. presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long, Richard Nixon in Elvis Meets Nixon, and Woodrow Wilson in Iron Jawed Angels.
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Gunton attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California.
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Gunton appeared as Chief Kirby in Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Firehouse which was released straight to video.
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The Cinema Society of San Diego recognized Bob Gunton as one of the finest character actors of all time by featuring a showing of his most memorable performance as Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption at the AMC La Jolla 12 Theatres in La Jolla, California on October 30, 2007.
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Gunton has scribed articles for the Los Angeles Times and the Theatre World.
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Bob Gunton is the son of Robert Patrick Gunton, Sr., labor union executive, and Rose Marie Banouetz Gunton.
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Gunton read for Robert Ludlum's The Rhinemann Exchange audiobook, published in February 1991.
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Gunton's stage debut was in Tennessee U.S.A. at Cumberland County Playhouse, Tennessee in 1965. His film debut was a supporting role in the 1981 film by Alan J. Pakula, Rollover. His TV debut was in CBS' Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal in 1982.
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Gunton attended St. Peter's College in Maryland and the University of California at Irvine.
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Gunton's Broadway theatrical credits include Happy End, Working, King of Hearts, Passion, Big River, and Roza.
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Gunton once did a play where he portrayed 21 different characters and didn't change costumes.
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Gunton is 6'1" tall. His eyes are blue.
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Gunton garnered an Obie Award for his role in the Broadway play How I Got That Story in 1980.
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Gunton married Carey Pitts Gunton on August 26, 2006 after being divorced to Annie McGreevey on July 31, 2006.
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Bob Gunton: (on doing a films in the horror genre) Well, I'm unaccustomed as I am. I've done one [horror genre] turkey that earned me a major tomato award. You know that rotten tomato? Man, I scored.
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Bob Gunton: (on being directed by James Wan in "Dead Silence") It's humbling for a guy of my age sometimes to take direction from someone who is maybe a third of my age.
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Bob Gunton: I come from theater, where theater is not bound by sort of linear, logical reality. It makes these huge leaps. I've done lots of plays where they'll be a bare stage, and if the actor told you he was in the middle of a jungle, okay, you're in the middle of a jungle. It's just how temporary suspension of disbelief works.
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