Portrait of Bob Gunton

Bob Gunton

Acting

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.

Born: November 15, 1945

Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, USA

Filmography

2025
The Gettysburg Address

as William Herndon (voice)

2024
Purgatory Station

as Horatio Grimes

2024
The Inheritance

as Charles Abernathy

2021
Ghostbusters: Afterlife

as The Ghost Farmer

2019
Project Blue Book

as Harry S. Truman

2018
The Cool Kids

as Colonel Christianson

2018
Alex & the List

as Mr. Stern

2017
Trial & Error

as Jeremiah Davis

2017
Mountain Top

as Maxwell Forrest

2015
The 33

as President Sebastián Piñera

2015
2015
Marvel's Daredevil

as Leland Owlsley

2014
2013
Live at the Foxes Den

as Tony O'Hara

2013
Runner Runner

as Dean Alex Monroe

2013
The Blacklist

as Nicholas Moore

2013
2013
Jimmy

as Sheriff Brinson

2012
Argo

as Cyrus Vance

2012
Elementary

as Frederick Wentz

2012
Get the Gringo

as Mr. Kaufmann

2011
2011
2011
The Least of These

as Father Thomas Peters

2011
The Lincoln Lawyer

as Cecil Dobbs

2011
Kill the Irishman

as Jerry Merke

2010
The Trial

as Joe Whetstone

2010
Tenure

as William Thurber

2008
24: Redemption

as Ethan Kanin

2008
2008
The Lazarus Project

as Father Ezra

2008
The Mentalist

as Alexander Harrington

2008
2007
Veronica in the FBI

as Principal Harris

2007
Rendition

as Lars Whitman

2007
Pandemic

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

as Dick Dinkle

2005
2005
2005
Numb3rs

as Boyd Resnick

2004
Desperate Housewives

as Noah Taylor

2004
Boston Legal

as Attorney William Connolly

2004
The Batman

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

as Mayor Smith

2003
Nip/Tuck

as Agent Sagamore

2002
The Pact

as James Harte

2002
Boat Trip

as Boat Captain

2002
Monk

as Dwight Ellison

2002
Scenes of the Crime

as Steven, Jimmy's Partner

2002
Greg the Bunny

as "Junction" Jack Mars

2001
24

as Ethan Kanin

2001
61*

as Dan Topping

2001
When Billie Beat Bobby

as Jerry Perenchio

2000
2000
Running Mates

as Sen. Terrence Randall

2000
The Perfect Storm

as Alexander McAnally III

1999
Bats

as Dr. Alexander McCabe

1999
Family Law

as Judge Mason

1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Lawrence Hendricks Sr.

1999
Judging Amy

as Dr. Alan Foster

1999
Family Guy

as Warden (voice)

1998
Patch Adams

as Dean Walcott

1997
Buffalo Soldiers

as Col. Benjamin Grierson

1997
A Thousand Acres

as Judge (uncredited)

1997
Ally McBeal

as Michaelson

1997
Elvis Meets Nixon

as Richard M. Nixon

1997
Changing Habits

as Bishop Creighton

1996
The Glimmer Man

as Frank Deverell

1996
Spin City

as Governor Riley

1996
Broken Arrow

as Pritchett

1995
The Outer Limits

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

as Sidney Alcott

1994
Roswell

as Frank Joyce

1993
Demolition Man

as Chief George Earle

1993
Father Hood

as Lazzaro

1993
Wild Palms

as Dr. Tobias Schenkl

1992
Sinatra

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
Missing Pieces

as Mr Gabor

1991
JFK

as TV Newsman #3

1991
A Woman Named Jackie

as Hugh Auchincloss

1991
1990
1990
Judgment

as Monsignor Beauvais

1990
Law & Order

as Gil Himes

1989
Glory

as Gen. Charles Garrison Harker

1989
Cookie

as Richie Segretto

1989
Unconquered

as Gov. George Wallace

1988
Forever James Dean

as Narrator (voice)

1987
Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Capt. Benjamin Maxwell

1987
The Pick-up Artist

as Fernando Portacarrero

1987
Matewan

as C.E. Lively

1986
1986
L.A. Law

as Bob Weston

1986
Static

as Frank

1985
The Equalizer

as Cronin

1985
Finnegan Begin Again

as Christian Jameson

1984
1981
Rollover

as Sal Naftari

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Ghostkiller

as Fr. Wilson O'Rourke