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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Acting History
2025
The Gettysburg Address as William Herndon (voice)
2024Purgatory Station as Horatio Grimes
2024The Inheritance as Charles Abernathy
2021Scarlett
2021Ghostbusters: Afterlife as The Ghost Farmer
2019Project Blue Book as Harry S. Truman
2018The Cool Kids as Colonel Christianson
2018Unbroken: Path to Redemption as Major
2018Alex & the List as Mr. Stern
2017Trial & Error as Jeremiah Davis
2017Mountain Top as Maxwell Forrest
2015The 33 as President Sebastián Piñera
2015Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant as Flight School Instructor
2015Marvel's Daredevil as Leland Owlsley
2014Decoding Annie Parker as Dr. Benton
2013Live at the Foxes Den as Tony O'Hara
2013Runner Runner as Dean Alex Monroe
2013The Blacklist as Nicholas Moore
2013Highland Park as Bert
2013Jimmy as Sheriff Brinson
2012Argo as Cyrus Vance
2012Elementary as Frederick Wentz
2012Trouble with the Curve as Watson
2012Get the Gringo as Mr. Kaufmann
2011New Girl as Ed
2011Up All Night as Tom
2011The Least of These as Father Thomas Peters
2011The Lincoln Lawyer as Cecil Dobbs
2011Kill the Irishman as Jerry Merke
2010The Trial as Joe Whetstone
2010Tenure as William Thurber
200824: Redemption as Ethan Kanin
2008World War Two: Behind Closed Doors as Franklin Roosevelt
2008The Lazarus Project as Father Ezra
2008The Mentalist as Alexander Harrington
2008Player 5150 as Nick
2007Veronica in the FBI as Principal Harris
2007Women's Murder Club
2007Rendition as Lars Whitman
2007Pandemic as Dr. Max Sorkosky
2007Numb as Dr. Townshend
2007Fracture as Judge Gardner
2007Dead Silence as Edward Ashen
2006Believe in Me as Hugh Moreland
2006Pepper Dennis as Dick Dinkle
2005E-Ring
2005Dallas 362 as Joe
2005Numb3rs as Boyd Resnick
2004Desperate Housewives as Noah Taylor
2004Boston Legal as Attorney William Connolly
2004The Batman as Gorman (voice)
2004I ♥ Huckabees as Mr. Silver
2004Judas as Caiaphas
2004Iron Jawed Angels as President Woodrow Wilson
2003Broadway's Lost Treasures as Juan Perón (segment "Evita")
2003Peacemakers as Mayor Smith
2003Nip/Tuck as Agent Sagamore
2003Mister Sterling as California Governor Marino
2002The Pact as James Harte
2002Boat Trip as Boat Captain
2002Monk as Dwight Ellison
2002Scenes of the Crime as Steven, Jimmy's Partner
2002Greg the Bunny as "Junction" Jack Mars
2002The Court
200124 as Ethan Kanin
200161* as Dan Topping
2001When Billie Beat Bobby as Jerry Perenchio
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Robert Carvallo
2000Running Mates as Sen. Terrence Randall
2000The Perfect Storm as Alexander McAnally III
1999Bats as Dr. Alexander McCabe
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lawrence Hendricks Sr.
1999Family Law as Judge Mason
1999Judging Amy as Dr. Alan Foster
1999Family Guy as Warden (voice)
1998Patch Adams as Dean Walcott
1997Buffalo Soldiers as Col. Benjamin Grierson
1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as Finley Largent
1997A Thousand Acres as Judge (uncredited)
1997Ally McBeal as Michaelson
1997Elvis Meets Nixon as Richard M. Nixon
1997Changing Habits as Bishop Creighton
1996The Glimmer Man as Frank Deverell
1996Spin City as Governor Riley
1996The Siege at Ruby Ridge as Bo Gritz
1996Broken Arrow as Pritchett
1995Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls as Burton Quinn
1995Courthouse as Judge Homer Conklin
1995The Outer Limits as Clute Nichols
1995Dolores Claiborne as Mr. Pease
1995In Pursuit of Honor as Col. John Hardesty
1995Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long as Franklin D. Roosevelt
1994Cosmic Slop as President Ellis (segment 'Space Traders')
1994The Shawshank Redemption as Warden Norton
1994Touched by an Angel as Sidney Alcott
1994Roswell as Frank Joyce
1993Demolition Man as Chief George Earle
1993Father Hood as Lazzaro
1993Wild Palms as Dr. Tobias Schenkl
1992Sinatra as Tommy Dorsey
1992Jennifer Eight as Goodridge
1992The Public Eye as Older Agent
1992Ladykiller as Wolkowski
1992Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster as Larry Dietrick - State of Alaska
1992Patriot Games as Interviewer
1992Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life as Texas Preacher
1992Missing Pieces as Mr Gabor
1991JFK as TV Newsman #3
1991A Woman Named Jackie as Hugh Auchincloss
1991Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis as Chaplain
1991Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin as Asst. D.A. Scott Willard
1990The Bride in Black as Sydney
1990Judgment as Monsignor Beauvais
1990Law & Order as Gil Himes
1989Born on the Fourth of July as Doctor
1989Glory as Gen. Charles Garrison Harker
1989Cookie as Richie Segretto
1989Unconquered as Gov. George Wallace
1988Hothouse as Dr. Leonard Schrader
1988Forever James Dean as Narrator (voice)
1987Star Trek: The Next Generation as Capt. Benjamin Maxwell
1987The Pick-up Artist as Fernando Portacarrero
1987Matewan as C.E. Lively
1986Adam: His Song Continues as Edgar Milton
1986L.A. Law as Bob Weston
1986Static as Frank
1985The Equalizer as Cronin
1985Finnegan Begin Again as Christian Jameson
1984Soldiers in Hiding as Narrator
1984Miami Vice as Rivas
1982Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal as Harry Gibbs
1981Rollover as Sal Naftari
—Ghostkiller as Fr. Wilson O'Rourke