Bob Gunton
Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. is an American character actor of stage and screen. He is known for playing strict authoritarian characters, including Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison drama The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993's Demolition Man, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in Patch Adams, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Argo. He also played Leland Owlsley in the Daredevil television series, Secretary of Defense Ethan Kanin in 24, and Noah Taylor in Desperate Housewives.
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🎬 Movies
The Gettysburg Address
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2025
The Inheritance
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2024
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
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2021
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
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2018
Alex & the List
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2018
Mountain Top
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2017
The 33
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2015
Decoding Annie Parker
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2014
Runner Runner
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2013
Jimmy
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2013
Argo
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2012
Trouble with the Curve
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2012
Get the Gringo
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2012
The Lincoln Lawyer
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2011
Kill the Irishman
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2011
The Trial
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2010
Tenure
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2010
The Lazarus Project
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2008
Player 5150
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2008
Rendition
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2007
Numb
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2007
Fracture
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2007
Dead Silence
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2007
Believe in Me
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2006
Dallas 362
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2005
Judas
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2004
Iron Jawed Angels
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2004
The Pact
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2002
Boat Trip
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2002
Scenes of the Crime
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2002
61*
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2001
The Perfect Storm
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2000
Bats
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1999
Patch Adams
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1998
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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1997
The Glimmer Man
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1996
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
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1996
Broken Arrow
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1996
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
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1995
Dolores Claiborne
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1995
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
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1995
In Pursuit of Honor
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1995
Cosmic Slop
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1994
The Shawshank Redemption
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1994
Roswell
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1994
Demolition Man
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1993
Father Hood
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1993
Jennifer Eight
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1992
Ladykiller
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1992
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
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1992
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
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1992
Missing Pieces
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1992
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
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1991
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
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1991
Judgment
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1990
Born on the Fourth of July
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1989
Glory
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1989
Cookie
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1989
Unconquered
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1989
The Pick-up Artist
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1987
Matewan
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1987
Static
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1986
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
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1982
Rollover
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1981
