Bill Gunn

Writing

Bill Gunn

Born 1934-07-15 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Acting credits

Penelope poster
5.4

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is secretly in love with her. However, he abandons the money when the police approach. Penelope becomes determined to admit to the crime, but neither James nor the police believe her story.

Penelope

1966

The Sound and the Fury poster
6.8

The once-prominent Compson family of Jefferson, Miss., has been reduced to near-penury by generations of alcoholism and sin. Levelheaded Jason struggles to keep the family together, but his teenage stepsister, Quentin, chafes against his strictures. When Quentin's estranged mother reappears in town, and carnival worker Charles attempts to seduce the virginal teen, the family may finally be headed for complete collapse.

The Sound and the Fury

1959

Personal Problems poster
7.3

An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.

Personal Problems

1980

The Spy with My Face poster
5.6

Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.

The Spy with My Face

1965

Montgomery Clift poster
4.3

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.

Montgomery Clift

1983

Ganja & Hess poster
5.8

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Ganja & Hess

1973

The Interns poster
6.0

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.

The Interns

1962

Losing Ground poster
6.2

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.

Losing Ground

1982

Baby Got Personal Problems poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Baby Got Personal Problems

Crossroads poster
10.0

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.

Crossroads

1957

Behind the camera

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus poster
4.7

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.

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

2015

The Landlord poster
6.0

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.

The Landlord

1970

Personal Problems poster
7.3

An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.

Personal Problems

1980

Ganja & Hess poster
5.8

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Ganja & Hess

1973

Ganja & Hess poster
5.8

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Ganja & Hess

1973

The Angel Levine poster
5.4

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?

The Angel Levine

1970

Stop! poster
5.1

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!

1970

Stop! poster
5.1

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!

1970