Bob Gunton

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 133

Gender Male

Birthday November 15, 1945 (78 years old)

Place of Birth Santa Monica, California, USA

Also Known As

Боб Гантон
Μπομπ Γκάντον
Robert Patrick Gunton Jr.
巴布·岡頓

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Bob Gunton

Biography

Robert Patrick "Bob" Gunton, Jr. (born November 15, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters, with his best known roles as Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison film The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993's Demolition Man, and President Juan Peron in the original Broadway cast of Evita.

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Known For

Acting

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as Fr. Wilson O'Rourke

2025

as William Herndon (voice)

2024		Purgatory Station as Horatio Grimes
2024		The Inheritance as Charles Abernathy

2021		Scarlett
2021		Ghostbusters: Afterlife as The Ghost Farmer

2019

(1 episode) as President Harry S. Truman

2018		The Cool Kids (1 episode) as Colonel Christianson
2018		Unbroken: Path to Redemption as Major
2018		Alex & the List as Mr. Stern

2017		Trial & Error (6 episodes) as Jeremiah Davis
2017		Mountain Top as Maxwell Forrest

2015		The 33 as President Sebastián Piñera
2015		Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant as Flight School Instructor
2015		Marvel's Daredevil (9 episodes) as Leland Owlsley

2014

as Dr. Benton

2013		Live at the Foxes Den as Tony O'Hara
2013		Runner Runner as Dean Alex Monroe
2013		The Blacklist (2 episodes) as Nicholas Moore
2013		Highland Park as Bert
2013		Jimmy as Sheriff Brinson

2012		Argo as Cyrus Vance
2012		Elementary (1 episode) as Frederick Wentz
2012		Trouble with the Curve as Watson
2012		Get the Gringo as Mr. Kaufmann

2011		New Girl (1 episode) as Ed
2011		Up All Night (1 episode) as Tom
2011		The Least of These as Father Thomas Peters
2011		The Lincoln Lawyer as Cecil Dobbs
2011		Kill the Irishman as Jerry Merke

2010

as Joe Whetstone

2009

as William Thurber

2008		24: Redemption as Ethan Kanin
2008		World War Two: Behind Closed Doors (6 episodes) as Franklin Roosevelt
2008		The Lazarus Project as Father Ezra
2008		The Mentalist (1 episode) as Alexander Harrington
2008		Player 5150 as Nick

2007		Veronica in the FBI as Principal Harris
2007		Women's Murder Club (1 episode)
2007		Rendition as Lars Whitman
2007		Pandemic (2 episodes) as Dr. Max Sorkosky
2007		Numb as Dr. Townshend
2007		Fracture as Judge Gardner
2007		Dead Silence as Edward Ashen

2006		Believe in Me as Hugh Moreland
2006		Pepper Dennis (4 episodes) as Dick Dinkle

2005		E-Ring (1 episode)
2005		Dallas 362 as Joe
2005		Numb3rs (1 episode)

2004		Boston Legal (1 episode) as Attorney William Connolly
2004		Desperate Housewives (40 episodes) as Noah Taylor
2004		The Batman (1 episode) as Gorman (voice)
2004		I ♥ Huckabees as Mr. Silver
2004		Judas as Caiaphas
2004		Iron Jawed Angels as President Woodrow Wilson

2003		Broadway's Lost Treasures as Juan Perón (segment "Evita")
2003		Peacemakers (4 episodes) as Mayor Smith
2003		Nip/Tuck (3 episodes)
2003		Mister Sterling (3 episodes)

2002		The Pact as James Harte
2002		Boat Trip as Boat Captain
2002		Monk (1 episode) as Dwight Ellison
2002		Scenes of the Crime as Steven, Jimmy's Partner
2002		Greg the Bunny (33 episodes) as "Junction" Jack Mars
2002		The Court (1 episode)

2001		24 (72 episodes) as Ethan Kanin (5 episodes)
2001		61* as Dan Topping
2001		When Billie Beat Bobby as Jerry Perenchio

2000		CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1 episode) as Robert Carvallo
2000		Running Mates as Sen. Terrence Randall
2000		The Perfect Storm as Alexander McAnally III

1999		Bats as Dr. Alexander McCabe
1999		Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 episode) as Lawrence Hendricks Sr.
1999		Family Law (1 episode) as Judge Mason
1999		Judging Amy (2 episodes) as Dr. Alan Foster
1999		Family Guy (1 episode) as Warden (voice)

1998

as Dean Walcott

1997		Buffalo Soldiers as Col. Benjamin Grierson
1997		Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as Finley Largent
1997		A Thousand Acres as Judge (uncredited)
1997		Ally McBeal (1 episode)
1997		Elvis Meets Nixon as Richard M. Nixon
1997		Changing Habits as Bishop Creighton

1996		The Glimmer Man as Frank Deverell
1996		Spin City (1 episode) as Governor Riley
1996		The Siege at Ruby Ridge as Bo Gritz
1996		Broken Arrow as Pritchett

1995		Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls as Burton Quinn
1995		Courthouse (11 episodes) as Judge Homer Conklin
1995		The Outer Limits (1 episode) as Clute Nichols
1995		Dolores Claiborne as Mr. Pease
1995		Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long as Franklin D. Roosevelt
1995		In Pursuit of Honor as Col. John Hardesty

1994		Cosmic Slop as President Ellis (segment 'Space Traders')
1994		The Shawshank Redemption as Warden Norton
1994		Touched by an Angel (1 episode) as Sidney Alcott
1994		Roswell as Frank Joyce

1993		Demolition Man as Chief George Earle
1993		Father Hood as Lazzaro
1993		Wild Palms (5 episodes) as Dr. Tobias Schenkl

1992		Sinatra (2 episodes) as Tommy Dorsey
1992		Jennifer Eight as Goodridge
1992		The Public Eye as Older Agent
1992		Ladykiller as Wolkowski
1992		Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster as Larry Dietrick - State of Alaska
1992		Patriot Games as Interviewer
1992		Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life as Texas Preacher
1992		Missing Pieces as Mr Gabor

1991		JFK as TV Newsman #3
1991		A Woman Named Jackie (3 episodes) as Hugh Auchincloss
1991		Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis as Chaplain
1991		Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin as Asst. D.A. Scott Willard

1990		The Bride in Black as Sydney
1990		Judgment as Monsignor Beauvais
1990		Law & Order (1 episode) as Gil Himes

1989		Born on the Fourth of July as Doctor
1989		Glory as Gen. Charles Garrison Harker
1989		Cookie as Richie Segretto
1989		Unconquered as Gov. George Wallace

1988		Hothouse (7 episodes) as Dr. Leonard Schrader
1988		Forever James Dean as Narrator (voice)

1987		Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode) as Capt. Benjamin Maxwell
1987		The Pick-up Artist as Fernando Portacarrero
1987		Matewan as C.E. Lively

1986		Adam: His Song Continues as Edgar Milton
1986		L.A. Law (1 episode) as Bob Weston
1986		Static as Frank

1985		The Equalizer (1 episode) as Cronin
1985		Finnegan Begin Again as Christian Jameson

1984		Soldiers in Hiding as Narrator
1984		Miami Vice (1 episode)

1982

as Harry Gibbs

1981

as Sal Naftari

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