Bob Gunton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-11-15 (80 years old)

Place of Birth

Santa Monica, California, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Gunton , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1994

The Shawshank Redemption

as Warden Norton

2000

The Perfect Storm

as Alexander McAnally III

1998

Patch Adams

as Dean Walcott

1999

Bats

as Dr. Alexander McCabe

2002

Scenes of the Crime

as Steven, Jimmy's Partner

1986

1987

Matewan

as C.E. Lively

1993

Demolition Man

as Chief George Earle

1996

The Glimmer Man

as Frank Deverell

2008

The Lazarus Project

as Father Ezra

2005

2007

Dead Silence

as Edward Ashen

2021

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

as The Ghost Farmer

1997

Elvis Meets Nixon

as Richard M. Nixon

2008

1981

Rollover

as Sal Naftari

2004

Iron Jawed Angels

as President Woodrow Wilson

2010

The Trial

as Joe Whetstone

1997

A Thousand Acres

as Judge (uncredited)

2006

Believe in Me

as Hugh Moreland

2012

Argo

as Cyrus Vance

2012

Get the Gringo

as Mr. Kaufmann

2011

The Lincoln Lawyer

as Cecil Dobbs

2011

Kill the Irishman

as Jerry Merke

2001

When Billie Beat Bobby

as Jerry Perenchio

2002

The Pact

as James Harte

1997

Changing Habits

as Bishop Creighton

1995

In Pursuit of Honor

as Col. John Hardesty

2013

1997

Buffalo Soldiers

as Col. Benjamin Grierson

2013

Runner Runner

as Dean Alex Monroe

2013

Live at the Foxes Den

as Tony O'Hara

2013

Jimmy

as Sheriff Brinson

1992

Missing Pieces

as Mr Gabor

1995

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

-

Ghostkiller

as Fr. Wilson O'Rourke

1989

Glory

as Gen. Charles Garrison Harker

2004

I ♥ Huckabees

as Mr. Silver

2003

Broadway's Lost Treasures

as Juan Perón (segment "Evita")

2007

Veronica in the FBI

as Principal Harris

1995

Dolores Claiborne

as Mr. Pease

2004

Judas

as Caiaphas

2018

Alex & the List

as Mr. Stern

2007

Numb

as Dr. Townshend

2025

The Gettysburg Address

as William Herndon (voice)

1994

Cosmic Slop

as President Ellis (segment 'Space Traders')

2015

The 33

as President Sebastián Piñera

2024

The Inheritance

as Charles Abernathy

1989

Unconquered

as Gov. George Wallace

1991

JFK

as TV Newsman #3

2010

Tenure

as William Thurber

1990

Judgment

as Monsignor Beauvais

1986

Static

as Frank

2002

Boat Trip

as Boat Captain

2000

Running Mates

as Sen. Terrence Randall

1984

1990

1994

Roswell

as Frank Joyce

1987

The Pick-up Artist

as Fernando Portacarrero

1992

Patriot Games

as Interviewer

1985

Finnegan Begin Again

as Christian Jameson

2017

Mountain Top

as Maxwell Forrest

2011

The Least of These

as Father Thomas Peters

2007

Fracture

as Judge Gardner

1992

Jennifer Eight

as Goodridge

2001

61*

as Dan Topping

1989

Cookie

as Richie Segretto

1992

Ladykiller

as Wolkowski

2014

2015

1988

Forever James Dean

as Narrator (voice)

1992

The Public Eye

as Older Agent

1993

Father Hood

as Lazzaro

1992

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

as Larry Dietrick - State of Alaska

1991

2007

Rendition

as Lars Whitman

2024

Purgatory Station

as Horatio Grimes

1996

Broken Arrow

as Pritchett

2008

24: Redemption

as Ethan Kanin

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