Moses Gunn
Born: 1929-10-02 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died: 1993-12-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
Filmography
1992
- Memphis as Tio Wiggins
1991
- Perfect Harmony as Zeke
- Brother Future as Isaac
1990
- Murder Times Seven as Sam Paxton
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Uncle Ezra Thornberry
- The Women of Brewster Place as Ben
- Snoops as Chance Dennis Sr.
- The Luckiest Man in the World as Voice
- A Man Called Hawk
- The Women of Brewster Place as Ben
1988
- Dixie Lanes as Isaac
1987
- Bates Motel as Henry Watson
- Leonard Part 6 as Giorgio
1986
- Heartbreak Ridge as Staff Sergeant Webster
- Amen
1985
- Certain Fury as Dr. Freeman
- Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom as Hannibal
1984
- The Cosby Show as Dr. Lotus
- Highway to Heaven
- Firestarter as Dr. Pynchot
- The NeverEnding Story as Cairon - Empress' Servant
- The Killing Floor as Heavy Williams
- The House of Dies Drear as River Lewis Darrow
1982
- Hotel as Albert
- Amityville II: The Possession as Turner
1981
- Hill Street Blues
- Ragtime as Booker T. Washington
- Father Murphy
1980
- The Ninth Configuration as Maj. Nammack
- The Contender as George Beifus
1978
- Vega$ as Domo
- Remember My Name as Pike
1977
- Roots as Kintango
1976
- Quincy, M.E.
- Law of the Land as Jacob
- The First Breeze of Summer as Milton Edwards
1975
- The Jeffersons
- Rollerball as Cletus
- Switch as Alexo
- Cornbread, Earl and Me as Benjamin Blackwell
- The Secret of the Pond as Sharbee
- Aaron Loves Angela as Ike
- Carter's Army as Pvt. Doc Hayes
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Joe Kagan
- Good Times
- Amazing Grace as Welton J Waters
- Movin' On
- Legacy of Blood as Joe Mattingly
- The Cowboys as Jebediah Nightlinger
1973
- The Iceman Cometh as Joe Mott
- Moving Target
1972
- Maude
- Shaft's Big Score! as Bumpy Jonas
- The Hot Rock as Dr. Amusa
- Eagle in a Cage as General Gourgaud
- Haunts of the Very Rich as Seacrist
- If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band as Mr. Miller
- Kung Fu as Isaac Montola
1971
- Great Performances as Milton Edwards
- Shaft as Bumpy Jonas
- Wild Rovers as Ben
- The Sheriff as Cliff Wilder
1970
- McCloud
- WUSA as Clotho
- The Great White Hope as Scipio
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Willy Stone
- Of Mice and Men as Crooks
1964
- Nothing But a Man as Mill Hand