Bob Gunton
Acting
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Acting Credits
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Gettysburg Address
2025
as William Herndon (voice)
The Inheritance
2024
as Charles Abernathy
Purgatory Station
2024
as Horatio Grimes
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021
as The Ghost Farmer
Scarlett
2021
as Danny
Project Blue Book
2019
as Harry S. Truman
Alex & the List
2018
as Mr. Stern
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
2018
as Major
The Cool Kids
2018
as Colonel Christianson
Mountain Top
2017
as Maxwell Forrest
Trial & Error
2017
as Jeremiah Davis
The 33
2015
as President Sebastián Piñera
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015
as Flight School Instructor
Marvel's Daredevil
2015
as Leland Owlsley
Decoding Annie Parker
2014
as Dr. Benton
Highland Park
2013
as Bert
Runner Runner
2013
as Dean Alex Monroe
Live at the Foxes Den
2013
as Tony O'Hara
Jimmy
2013
as Sheriff Brinson
The Blacklist
2013
as Nicholas Moore
Argo
2012
as Cyrus Vance
Get the Gringo
2012
as Mr. Kaufmann
Trouble with the Curve
2012
as Watson
Elementary
2012
as Frederick Wentz
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
as Cecil Dobbs
Kill the Irishman
2011
as Jerry Merke
The Least of These
2011
as Father Thomas Peters
New Girl
2011
as Ed
Up All Night
2011
as Tom
The Trial
2010
as Joe Whetstone
Tenure
2010
as William Thurber
The Lazarus Project
2008
as Father Ezra
Player 5150
2008
as Nick
The Mentalist
2008
as Alexander Harrington
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors
2008
as Franklin Roosevelt
Dead Silence
2007
as Edward Ashen
Veronica in the FBI
2007
as Principal Harris
Numb
2007
as Dr. Townshend
Fracture
2007
as Judge Gardner
Rendition
2007
as Lars Whitman
Women's Murder Club
2007
Pandemic
2007
as Max Sorkosky
Believe in Me
2006
as Hugh Moreland
Pepper Dennis
2006
as Dick Dinkle
Dallas 362
2005
as Joe
Numb3rs
2005
as Boyd Resnick
E-Ring
2005
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
as President Woodrow Wilson
I ♥ Huckabees
2004
as Mr. Silver
Judas
2004
as Caiaphas
Desperate Housewives
2004
as Noah Taylor
The Batman
2004
as Gorman (voice)
Boston Legal
2004
as Attorney William Connolly
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
as Juan Perón (segment "Evita")
Nip/Tuck
2003
as Agent Sagamore
Peacemakers
2003
as Mayor Smith
Mister Sterling
2003
as California Governor Marino
Scenes of the Crime
2002
as Steven, Jimmy's Partner
The Pact
2002
as James Harte
Boat Trip
2002
as Boat Captain
Greg the Bunny
2002
as "Junction" Jack Mars
Monk
2002
as Dwight Ellison
The Court
2002
When Billie Beat Bobby
2001
as Jerry Perenchio
61*
2001
as Dan Topping
24
2001
as Ethan Kanin
The Perfect Storm
2000
as Alexander McAnally III
Running Mates
2000
as Sen. Terrence Randall
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Robert Carvallo
Bats
1999
as Dr. Alexander McCabe
Family Guy
1999
as Warden (voice)
Judging Amy
1999
as Dr. Alan Foster
Family Law
1999
as Judge Mason
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Lawrence Hendricks Sr.
Patch Adams
1998
as Dean Walcott
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
as Finley Largent
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
as Richard M. Nixon
A Thousand Acres
1997
as Judge (uncredited)
Changing Habits
1997
as Bishop Creighton
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
as Col. Benjamin Grierson
Ally McBeal
1997
as Michaelson
The Glimmer Man
1996
as Frank Deverell
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Bo Gritz
Broken Arrow
1996
as Pritchett
Spin City
1996
as Governor Riley
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995
as Burton Quinn
In Pursuit of Honor
1995
as Col. John Hardesty
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
1995
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dolores Claiborne
1995
as Mr. Pease
The Outer Limits
1995
as Clute Nichols
Courthouse
1995
as Judge Homer Conklin
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
as Warden Norton
Cosmic Slop
1994
as President Ellis (segment 'Space Traders')
Roswell
1994
as Frank Joyce
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Sidney Alcott
Demolition Man
1993
as Chief George Earle
Father Hood
1993
as Lazzaro
Wild Palms
1993
as Dr. Tobias Schenkl
Missing Pieces
1992
as Mr Gabor
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992
as Texas Preacher
Patriot Games
1992
as Interviewer
Jennifer Eight
1992
as Goodridge
Ladykiller
1992
as Wolkowski
The Public Eye
1992
as Older Agent
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
as Larry Dietrick
Sinatra
1992
as Tommy Dorsey
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
1991
as Chaplain
JFK
1991
as TV Newsman #3
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
1991
as Asst. D.A. Scott Willard
A Woman Named Jackie
1991
as Hugh Auchincloss
Judgment
1990
as Monsignor Beauvais
The Bride in Black
1990
as Sydney
Law & Order
1990
as Gil Himes
Glory
1989
as Gen. Charles Garrison Harker
Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Doctor
Unconquered
1989
as Gov. George Wallace
Cookie
1989
as Richie Segretto
Forever James Dean
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Hothouse
1988
as Dr. Leonard Schrader
Matewan
1987
as C.E. Lively
The Pick-up Artist
1987
as Fernando Portacarrero
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Capt. Benjamin Maxwell
Adam: His Song Continues
1986
as Edgar Milton
Static
1986
as Frank
L.A. Law
1986
as Bob Westin
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
as Christian Jameson
The Equalizer
1985
as Cronin
Soldiers in Hiding
1984
as Narrator
Miami Vice
1984
as Rivas
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
1982
as Harry Gibbs
Rollover
1981
as Sal Naftari