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