
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

24
2001
as Ethan Kanin

Desperate Housewives
2004
as Noah Taylor

Monk
2002
as Dwight Ellison

Elementary
2012
as Frederick Wentz

Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Capt. Benjamin Maxwell

New Girl
2011
as Ed

Marvel's Daredevil
2015
as Leland Owlsley

Miami Vice
1984
as Rivas

Boston Legal
2004
as Attorney William Connolly

Numb3rs
2005
as Boyd Resnick

Judging Amy
1999
as Dr. Alan Foster

The Equalizer
1985
as Cronin

Nip/Tuck
2003
as Agent Sagamore

Touched by an Angel
1994
as Sidney Alcott

L.A. Law
1986
as Bob Westin

Spin City
1996
as Governor Riley

The Outer Limits
1995
as Clute Nichols

The Batman
2004
as Gorman (voice)

Ally McBeal
1997
as Michaelson

Family Law
1999
as Judge Mason

Project Blue Book
2019
as Harry S. Truman

E-Ring
2005

Up All Night
2011
as Tom

Trial & Error
2017
as Jeremiah Davis

Pepper Dennis
2006
as Dick Dinkle

The Cool Kids
2018
as Colonel Christianson

Greg the Bunny
2002
as "Junction" Jack Mars

Women's Murder Club
2007

Peacemakers
2003
as Mayor Smith

Mister Sterling
2003
as California Governor Marino

The Court
2002

Wild Palms
1993
as Dr. Tobias Schenkl
Courthouse
1995
as Judge Homer Conklin

A Woman Named Jackie
1991
as Hugh Auchincloss

Pandemic
2007
as Max Sorkosky

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

Demolition Man
1993
as Chief George Earle

Argo
2012
as Cyrus Vance

Fracture
2007
as Judge Gardner

Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021
as The Ghost Farmer

Glory
1989
as Gen. Charles Garrison Harker

JFK
1991
as TV Newsman #3

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995
as Burton Quinn

The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
as Cecil Dobbs

The Perfect Storm
2000
as Alexander McAnally III

Patriot Games
1992
as Interviewer

Broken Arrow
1996
as Pritchett

Patch Adams
1998
as Dean Walcott

Dolores Claiborne
1995
as Mr. Pease

Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Doctor

The 33
2015
as President Sebastián Piñera

The Lazarus Project
2008
as Father Ezra

Trouble with the Curve
2012
as Watson

Get the Gringo
2012
as Mr. Kaufmann

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
as Finley Largent

Boat Trip
2002
as Boat Captain

Rendition
2007
as Lars Whitman

Kill the Irishman
2011
as Jerry Merke

The Glimmer Man
1996
as Frank Deverell

Runner Runner
2013
as Dean Alex Monroe

Unbroken: Path to Redemption
2018
as Major

Jennifer Eight
1992
as Goodridge

61*
2001
as Dan Topping

The Trial
2010
as Joe Whetstone

I ♥ Huckabees
2004
as Mr. Silver

Mountain Top
2017
as Maxwell Forrest

Numb
2007
as Dr. Townshend

The Pick-up Artist
1987
as Fernando Portacarrero

Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015
as Flight School Instructor

Father Hood
1993
as Lazzaro

Bats
1999
as Dr. Alexander McCabe

Iron Jawed Angels
2004
as President Woodrow Wilson

Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
1991
as Chaplain

The Gettysburg Address
2025
as William Herndon (voice)

A Thousand Acres
1997
as Judge (uncredited)

The Inheritance
2024
as Charles Abernathy

The Public Eye
1992
as Older Agent

Decoding Annie Parker
2014
as Dr. Benton

Matewan
1987
as C.E. Lively

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
as Larry Dietrick

Buffalo Soldiers
1997
as Col. Benjamin Grierson

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Bo Gritz

Cosmic Slop
1994
as President Ellis (segment 'Space Traders')

Judas
2004
as Caiaphas

Roswell
1994
as Frank Joyce

Rollover
1981
as Sal Naftari

Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
1991
as Asst. D.A. Scott Willard

Believe in Me
2006
as Hugh Moreland

When Billie Beat Bobby
2001
as Jerry Perenchio

Running Mates
2000
as Sen. Terrence Randall

Dallas 362
2005
as Joe

The Pact
2002
as James Harte

Judgment
1990
as Monsignor Beauvais

Scenes of the Crime
2002
as Steven, Jimmy's Partner

Jimmy
2013
as Sheriff Brinson

Tenure
2010
as William Thurber

Ladykiller
1992
as Wolkowski

Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
as Juan Perón (segment "Evita")

In Pursuit of Honor
1995
as Col. John Hardesty

Highland Park
2013
as Bert

Cookie
1989
as Richie Segretto

Unconquered
1989
as Gov. George Wallace

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
1995
as Franklin D. Roosevelt

Alex & the List
2018
as Mr. Stern

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
1982
as Harry Gibbs

Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
as Richard M. Nixon

The Least of These
2011
as Father Thomas Peters

Missing Pieces
1992
as Mr Gabor
Scarlett
2021
as Danny

Veronica in the FBI
2007
as Principal Harris

Live at the Foxes Den
2013
as Tony O'Hara

Purgatory Station
2024
as Horatio Grimes

Changing Habits
1997
as Bishop Creighton

Static
1986
as Frank

Adam: His Song Continues
1986
as Edgar Milton

The Bride in Black
1990
as Sydney

Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992
as Texas Preacher

Player 5150
2008
as Nick

Ghostkiller
as Fr. Wilson O'Rourke

Soldiers in Hiding
1984
as Narrator

Finnegan Begin Again
1985
as Christian Jameson

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
- Demolition Man (1993) — as Chief George Earle
- Argo (2012) — as Cyrus Vance
- Fracture (2007) — as Judge Gardner
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