Moses Gunn
Date of birth: 1929-10-02
Place of birth: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Known for: Acting
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 17, 1993) was an American actor. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he co-founded the Negro Ensemble Company in the 1960s. His 1962 Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's The Blacks. He was nominated for a 1976 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for The Poison Tree and played Othello on Broadway in 1970. Description above from the Wikipedia article Moses Gunn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Movie Credits
Shaft
1971-06-23
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daught
Shaft's Big Score!
1972-06-08
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Heartbreak Ridge
1986-12-05
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he t
Firestarter
1984-05-11
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic
Carter's Army
1975-05-25
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowin
Leonard Part 6
1987-12-18
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurate
Ragtime
1981-11-20
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra
The NeverEnding Story
1984-04-06
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fan
The Iceman Cometh
1973-11-10
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the
Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975-05-21
The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political an
The Ninth Configuration
1980-02-29
Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With
Of Mice and Men
1968-01-31
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depressio
Amazing Grace
1974-08-30
A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers th
Nothing But a Man
1964-12-27
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Remember My Name
1978-02-10
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stal
Bates Motel
1987-07-05
A mentally disturbed man who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility inherits th
Certain Fury
1985-03-01
Teenage prostitute Scarlet and minor offender Tracy end up on the run together in the wake of a cour
Perfect Harmony
1991-03-31
During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegrega
The Women of Brewster Place
1989-03-19
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Haunts of the Very Rich
1972-09-20
A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing
Aaron Loves Angela
1975-12-25
Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love
Eagle in a Cage
1972-01-09
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Brother Future
1991-02-03
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself
Rollerball
1975-06-25
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, a
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985-02-25
At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands o
Legacy of Blood
1974-03-12
An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die.
The Great White Hope
1970-10-11
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing est
Memphis
1992-01-27
Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black famil
The Hot Rock
1972-01-26
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only th
Dixie Lanes
1988-05-03
Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas in li
The House of Dies Drear
1984-06-01
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil W
The Luckiest Man in the World
1989-02-22
New York City garment manufacturer Sam Posner is a liar, a bully and a cheat who makes life unpleasa
Moving Target
1973-05-22
A police detective initially believed to have died in an accident is found to have been murdered, an
Law of the Land
1976-04-29
A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
Wild Rovers
1971-06-23
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods
The Killing Floor
1984-04-10
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaug
The Sheriff
1971-03-30
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate
The First Breeze of Summer
1976-01-28
A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly gra
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
1972-12-19
Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blin
Amityville II: The Possession
1982-09-24
Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityvi
WUSA
1970-08-19
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New O
Murder Times Seven
1990-10-14
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal
The Secret of the Pond
1975-10-12
A spoiled city youngster learns the hard way that there may be some truth to the legend of a mysteri