Bob Gunton
Known for Acting · 133 credits
- Born
- 1945-11-15 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Also known as
- Robert Patrick Gunton Jr.
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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Known For
TV Shows (45)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Lawrence Hendricks Sr.
Law & Order
1990
as Gil Himes
The Mentalist
2008
as Alexander Harrington
Family Guy
1999
as Warden (voice)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Robert Carvallo
The Blacklist
2013
as Nicholas Moore
Desperate Housewives
2004
as Noah Taylor
24
2001
as Ethan Kanin
Monk
2002
as Dwight Ellison
Elementary
2012
as Frederick Wentz
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Capt. Benjamin Maxwell
Boston Legal
2004
as Attorney William Connolly
Marvel's Daredevil
2015
as Leland Owlsley
Miami Vice
1984
as Rivas
New Girl
2011
as Ed
Judging Amy
1999
as Dr. Alan Foster
Numb3rs
2005
as Boyd Resnick
Nip/Tuck
2003
as Agent Sagamore
L.A. Law
1986
as Bob Westin
The Equalizer
1985
as Cronin
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Sidney Alcott
Spin City
1996
as Governor Riley
The Outer Limits
1995
as Clute Nichols
The Batman
2004
as Gorman (voice)
Family Law
1999
as Judge Mason
Ally McBeal
1997
as Michaelson
Up All Night
2011
as Tom
Project Blue Book
2019
as Harry S. Truman
E-Ring
2005
Pepper Dennis
2006
as Dick Dinkle
Trial & Error
2017
as Jeremiah Davis
Greg the Bunny
2002
as "Junction" Jack Mars
Women's Murder Club
2007
The Cool Kids
2018
as Colonel Christianson
Mister Sterling
2003
as California Governor Marino
Peacemakers
2003
as Mayor Smith
Wild Palms
1993
as Dr. Tobias Schenkl
A Woman Named Jackie
1991
as Hugh Auchincloss
Pandemic
2007
as Max Sorkosky
Courthouse
1995
as Judge Homer Conklin
The Court
2002
Hothouse
1988
as Dr. Leonard Schrader
Sinatra
1992
as Tommy Dorsey
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Bo Gritz
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors
2008
as Franklin Roosevelt
Movies (88)
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
as Warden Norton
Dead Silence
2007
as Edward Ashen
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021
as The Ghost Farmer
Demolition Man
1993
as Chief George Earle
Fracture
2007
as Judge Gardner
Argo
2012
as Cyrus Vance
Glory
1989
as Gen. Charles Garrison Harker
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995
as Burton Quinn
The Perfect Storm
2000
as Alexander McAnally III
Broken Arrow
1996
as Pritchett
Dolores Claiborne
1995
as Mr. Pease
JFK
1991
as TV Newsman #3
Trouble with the Curve
2012
as Watson
Patriot Games
1992
as Interviewer
Rendition
2007
as Lars Whitman
Patch Adams
1998
as Dean Walcott
Boat Trip
2002
as Boat Captain
Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Doctor
The 33
2015
as President Sebastián Piñera
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
as Cecil Dobbs
Bats
1999
as Dr. Alexander McCabe
The Lazarus Project
2008
as Father Ezra
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
as Finley Largent
Kill the Irishman
2011
as Jerry Merke
Runner Runner
2013
as Dean Alex Monroe
I ♥ Huckabees
2004
as Mr. Silver
Get the Gringo
2012
as Mr. Kaufmann
The Glimmer Man
1996
as Frank Deverell
Jennifer Eight
1992
as Goodridge
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
2018
as Major
Judas
2004
as Caiaphas
Matewan
1987
as C.E. Lively
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
as Col. Benjamin Grierson
Roswell
1994
as Frank Joyce
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
1991
as Chaplain
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
as President Woodrow Wilson
61*
2001
as Dan Topping
The Inheritance
2024
as Charles Abernathy
The Pick-up Artist
1987
as Fernando Portacarrero
The Trial
2010
as Joe Whetstone
The Gettysburg Address
2025
as William Herndon (voice)
Father Hood
1993
as Lazzaro
Ladykiller
1992
as Wolkowski
Mountain Top
2017
as Maxwell Forrest
Running Mates
2000
as Sen. Terrence Randall
Scenes of the Crime
2002
as Steven, Jimmy's Partner
Scarlett
2021
as Danny
Numb
2007
as Dr. Townshend
A Thousand Acres
1997
as Judge (uncredited)
The Public Eye
1992
as Older Agent
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015
as Flight School Instructor
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
1991
as Asst. D.A. Scott Willard
Decoding Annie Parker
2014
as Dr. Benton
When Billie Beat Bobby
2001
as Jerry Perenchio
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
1995
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Highland Park
2013
as Bert
Live at the Foxes Den
2013
as Tony O'Hara
Jimmy
2013
as Sheriff Brinson
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Bo Gritz
Tenure
2010
as William Thurber
Judgment
1990
as Monsignor Beauvais
Believe in Me
2006
as Hugh Moreland
Unconquered
1989
as Gov. George Wallace
Dallas 362
2005
as Joe
Cookie
1989
as Richie Segretto
In Pursuit of Honor
1995
as Col. John Hardesty
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
as Juan Perón (segment "Evita")
Ghostkiller
as Fr. Wilson O'Rourke
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
as Richard M. Nixon
Missing Pieces
1992
as Mr Gabor
Player 5150
2008
as Nick
Rollover
1981
as Sal Naftari
Alex & the List
2018
as Mr. Stern
The Pact
2002
as James Harte
Static
1986
as Frank
Veronica in the FBI
2007
as Principal Harris
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992
as Texas Preacher
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
as Larry Dietrick
The Least of These
2011
as Father Thomas Peters
Changing Habits
1997
as Bishop Creighton
Cosmic Slop
1994
as President Ellis (segment 'Space Traders')
The Bride in Black
1990
as Sydney
Purgatory Station
2024
as Horatio Grimes
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
as Christian Jameson
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
1982
as Harry Gibbs
Adam: His Song Continues
1986
as Edgar Milton
Soldiers in Hiding
1984
as Narrator
Forever James Dean
1988
as Narrator (voice)
About Bob Gunton
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. With 133 credits spanning from 1981 to 2025, Bob Gunton has appeared in 88 films and 45 TV shows.
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Most Popular Bob Gunton Movies
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) — as Warden Norton
- Dead Silence (2007) — as Edward Ashen
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) — as The Ghost Farmer
- Demolition Man (1993) — as Chief George Earle
- Fracture (2007) — as Judge Gardner
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