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Moses Gunn
2 October 1929
Moses Gunn played in 14 movies in the Drama, War, Music, Action, Crime, Thriller, Comedy, Sport, Sci-Fi, Horror, Adventure, Family, Fantasy genres.
Moses Gunn got succeed with average imdb rating 6.2.
Dynamic African American actor Moses Gunn was one of the founders of the Negro Outfit Corporation. Sensitive at Tennessee Status and the University of Kansas, Gunn made his New York form in a 1961 production of Measure object of Measure; he remained active on the off-Broadway scene all over his career, winning several Obie awards. His 1962 Broadway debut came by sense of Jean Genet's The Blacks, which served to acquaint many another powerful resentful acting flair of the era.
... In films from 1964's Nothing But a Restrain, Gunn is best-remembered for his portrayal of soldier Bouncy Jonas in the first two Shaft films, and his brief but telling cameo as Booker T. Washington in Ragtime, a act which won him an NAACP Image award. On series tube, Gunn was principal-billed as Jebediah Nightlinger in The Cowboys (1972), played boxing trainer George Beifus in The Contender (1980), was featured as miner Moses Gage in Initiate Murphy (1981-84) and chewed the scenery as the epigrammatical "Experienced Man" in A Hamper Called Hawk (1989). He also played Carl Dixon, the man who married Florida Evans ($) after a waterspout courtship during the 1976-77 salt of Moral Times. In 1977, Moses Gunn received an Emmy nomination for his appearance as tribal chieftain Kintango in the train-breaking miniseries Roots.
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