Bob Gunton

Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

As: Major

Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Harold Cronk

Stars: Bob Gunton | David Sakurai | Samuel Hunt | Merritt Patterson | Will Graham

The Gettysburg Address (2015)

As: William Herndon (voice)

The complete story of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Directed by: Sean Conant

Stars: Sam Elliott | Michael C. Hall | Cary Elwes | Neal McDonough | Kelly Ayotte

The List (2015)

As: Mr. Stern

Alex, a lovable, unassuming dog trainer is in love with a great woman - Katherine - smart, talented, from a good family. Katherine adores Alex's quirky sense of humor, honesty and capacity to listen. Having decided to pop the question, Alex is blindsided when Katherine produces a detailed list of well-thought-out "improvements" she feels will tweak Alex on their way to becoming the ideal couple. Alex ...

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Harris Goldberg

Stars: Karen Gillan | Eddie Kaye Thomas | Patrick Fugit | Jennifer Morrison | Julie Gonzalo

The 33 (2015)

As: President Sebastián Piñera

Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

Runtime: 127 min.

Directed by: Patricia Riggen

Stars: Antonio Banderas | Lou Diamond Phillips | James Brolin | Juliette Binoche | Rodrigo Santoro

Live at the Foxes Den (2013)

As: Tony O'Hara

A corporate attorney quits his job at a high profile law firm to become the singer at a an old cocktail lounge called the Foxes Den, becoming deeply involved in the lives of its staff and regulars.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Michael Kristoff

Stars: Xander Berkeley | Jackson Rathbone | Jocelin Donahue | Caity Lotz | Jack Holmes

Highland Park (2013)

As: Bert

A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their jobs.

Runtime: 83 min.

Directed by: Andrew Meieran

Stars: Billy Burke | Danny Glover | Deborah Ann Woll | Parker Posey | Michelle Forbes

Jimmy (2013)

As: Sheriff Brinson

The story of a mentally challenged teenager who interacts with supernatural beings he calls "Watchers".

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Mark Freiburger

Stars: Bob Gunton | Ted Levine | Ian Colletti | Kelly Carlson | Jackson Pace

Argo (2012)

As: Cyrus Vance

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Ben Affleck

Stars: Bryan Cranston | Ben Affleck | Victor Garber | John Goodman | Alan Arkin

Trouble with the Curve (2012)

As: Watson

Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Robert Lorenz

Stars: Matthew Lillard | Amy Adams | Justin Timberlake | John Goodman | Clint Eastwood

Get the Gringo (2012)

As: Mr. Kaufmann

A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Adrian Grunberg

Stars: Mel Gibson | Bob Gunton | Peter Stormare | Dean Norris | Kevin Hernandez

The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

As: Cecil Dobbs

A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Brad Furman

Stars: Ryan Phillippe | William H. Macy | Josh Lucas | Matthew McConaughey | Marisa Tomei

Kill the Irishman (2011)

As: Jerry Merke

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Hensleigh

Stars: Val Kilmer | Linda Cardellini | Ray Stevenson | Vincent D'Onofrio | Christopher Walken

The Trial (2010)

As: Joe Whetstone

After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life and those around him forever.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Gary Wheeler

Stars: Bob Gunton | Robert Forster | Larry Bagby | Matthew Modine | Randy Wayne

Tenure (2009)

As: William Thurber

Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a beautiful new teacher whose ascending star threatens to eclipse him shakes up Charlie's plans.

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Mike Million

Stars: Bob Gunton | David Koechner | Sasha Alexander | Luke Wilson | Gretchen Mol

24: Redemption (2008)

As: Ethan Kanin

Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Jon Cassar

Stars: Bob Gunton | Kiefer Sutherland | Cherry Jones | Jon Voight | Colm Feore

The Lazarus Project (2008)

As: Father Ezra

After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: John Glenn

Stars: Lambert Wilson | Linda Cardellini | Paul Walker | Piper Perabo | Shawn Hatosy

Player 5150 (2008)

As: Nick

Joey (Ethan Embry, Can't Hardly Wait) is a successful day trader at a high-end brokerage house, he has a beautiful fiancée and a home on the beach. He has it all and a lot to lose. Now the gambling addiction that has plagued him for years has him on the run and he must put everything on the line...including his life.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: David Michael O'Neill

Stars: Bob Gunton | Christopher McDonald | Kathleen Robertson | Kelly Carlson | Angela Little

Numb (2007)

As: Dr. Townshend

Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Harris Goldberg

Stars: Matthew Perry | Kevin Pollak | Lynn Collins | Mary Steenburgen | Helen Shaver

Dead Silence (2007)

As: Edward Ashen

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: James Wan

Stars: Bob Gunton | Donnie Wahlberg | Ryan Kwanten | Amber Valletta | Laura Regan

Believe in me (2006)

As: Hugh Moreland

In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.

Runtime: 131 min.

Directed by: Robert Collector

Stars: Bob Gunton | Samantha Mathis | Bruce Dern | Jeffrey Donovan

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

As: Mr. Silver

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: David O. Russell

Stars: Jude Law | Jason Schwartzman | Isabelle Huppert | Dustin Hoffman | Lily Tomlin

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

As: President Woodrow Wilson

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Katja von Garnier

Stars: Margo Martindale | Molly Parker | Anjelica Huston | Hilary Swank | Frances O'Connor

Dallas 362 (2003)

As: Joe

Rusty (Shawn Hatosy) has been bailed out of bad situations more than once by his understanding but distraught mother, Mary (Kelly Lynch). When Mary starts dating a psychologist, Bob (Jeff Goldblum), Rusty connects with the man and begins talking to him about his problems. As Rusty benefits from the therapy sessions, his best friend, Dallas (Scott Caan), still very involved ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Scott Caan

Stars: Jeff Goldblum | Kelly Lynch | Scott Caan | Shawn Hatosy | Heavy D

The Pact (2002)

As: James Harte

A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Peter Werner

Stars: Bob Gunton | Henry Czerny | Juliet Stevenson | Megan Mullally | Eric Lively

Boat Trip (2002)

As: Boat Captain

Two straight men mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Mort Nathan

Stars: Vivica A. Fox | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Horatio Sanz | Maurice Godin | Roselyn Sánchez

When Billie Beat Bobby (2001)

As: Jerry Perenchio

.The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Jane Anderson

Stars: Bob Gunton | Elizabeth Berridge | Ron Silver | Holly Hunter | Jacqueline McKenzie

Scenes of the Crime (2001)

As: Steven, Jimmy's Partner

A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is shot dead by a rival crime boss.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Dominique Forma

Stars: R. Lee Ermey | Peter Greene | Jeff Bridges | Jon Abrahams | Mädchen Amick

Running Mates (2000)

As: Sen. Terrence Randall

A governor running for President gets revealed to be a serial philanderer.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Ron Lagomarsino

Stars: Laura Linney | Faye Dunaway | Teri Hatcher | Nancy Travis | Tom Selleck

The Perfect Storm (2000)

As: Alexander McAnally III

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure.

Runtime: 130 min.

Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen

Stars: William Fichtner | George Clooney | Diane Lane | John C. Reilly | Mark Wahlberg

Bats (1999)

As: Dr. Alexander McCabe

Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Louis Morneau

Stars: Bob Gunton | Dina Meyer | Lou Diamond Phillips | Carlos Jacott | Leon

Patch Adams (1998)

As: Dean Walcott

Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own career.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Tom Shadyac

Stars: Bob Gunton | Michael Jeter | Robin Williams | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Peter Coyote

Buffalo Soldiers (1997)

As: Col. Benjamin Grierson

They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Charles Haid

Stars: Mykelti Williamson | Danny Glover | Glynn Turman | Carl Lumbly | Lamont Bentley

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

As: Finley Largent

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

Runtime: 155 min.

Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Stars: Kevin Spacey | Alison Eastwood | Jude Law | John Cusack | Jack Thompson

Elvis Meets Nixon (1997)

As: Richard M. Nixon

A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Allan Arkush

Stars: Bob Gunton | Dick Cavett | Rick Peters | Alyson Court | Denny Doherty

Changing Habits (1997)

As: Bishop Creighton

An aspiring artist runs from men as a result of an early life problem that has left her relationship with her father strained. She decides to move into a convent where troubled women receive cheap lodging in exchange for work. She finds a dirty area in the basement where she paints a mural that deals with all of her psychological problems. While some find it gaudy, others such as the mother ...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Lynn Roth

Stars: Dylan Walsh | Teri Garr | Moira Kelly | Eileen Brennan | Shelley Duvall

The Glimmer Man (1996)

As: Frank Deverell

A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim Campbell. Although the two men clash, they gradually become effective partners as they uncover a conspiracy linked to the killings, which also ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: John Gray

Stars: Brian Cox | Bob Gunton | Steven Seagal | Keenen Ivory Wayans | Michelle Johnson

Broken Arrow (1996)

As: Pritchett

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: John Woo

Stars: Bob Gunton | Samantha Mathis | Delroy Lindo | Christian Slater | John Travolta

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

As: Burton Quinn

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Steve Oedekerk

Stars: Bob Gunton | Jim Carrey | Maynard Eziashi | Simon Callow | Ian McNeice

Dolores Claiborne (1995)

As: Mr. Pease

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns ...

Runtime: 132 min.

Directed by: Taylor Hackford

Stars: Christopher Plummer | David Strathairn | Kathy Bates | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Judy Parfitt

Kingfish: The Story of Huey P. Long (1995)

As: Franklin D. Roosevelt

A look at the life and career of controversial Louisiana governor Huey Long, whose nickname was "The Kingfish."

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Thomas Schlamme

Stars: Bob Gunton | Matt Craven | Anne Heche | John Goodman | Ann Dowd

In Pursuit of Honor (1995)

As: Col. John Hardesty

To save a group of horses slated to be destroyed by the US Cavalry, a group of officers rebel and begin a journey towards Canada to save themselves and the mounts.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Ken Olin

Stars: Don Johnson | Craig Sheffer | Rod Steiger | Gabrielle Anwar | James Sikking

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

As: Warden Samuel Norton

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Runtime: 142 min.

Directed by: Frank Darabont

Stars: Tim Robbins | Morgan Freeman | Bob Gunton | Clancy Brown | Mark Rolston

Roswell (1994)

As: Frank Joyce

Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Jeremy Kagan

Stars: Bob Gunton | Xander Berkeley | Dwight Yoakam | Martin Sheen | Kyle MacLachlan

Demolition Man (1993)

As: Chief George Earle

Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been cryogenically frozen when wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Marco Brambilla

Stars: Sylvester Stallone | Sandra Bullock | Wesley Snipes | Benjamin Bratt | Nigel Hawthorne

Patriot Games (1992)

As: Interviewer

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Runtime: 117 min.

Directed by: Phillip Noyce

Stars: Sean Bean | Harrison Ford | Anne Archer | Thora Birch | Patrick Bergin

Missing Pieces (1992)

As: Mr Gabor

As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician friend, Lou, are soon thrust into a comic chase, as an assortment of unsavoury characters, underworld figures, and even private investigators, are after them for the inheritance - and they don't know what it is!

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Leonard Stern

Stars: Bob Gunton | Eric Idle | Robert Wuhl | Donald Gibb | Lauren Hutton

JFK (1991)

As: TV Newsman #3

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Runtime: 189 min.

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Stars: Gary Oldman | Michael Rooker | Kevin Bacon | Tommy Lee Jones | Kevin Costner

Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991)

As: Chaplain

True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-martial.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Robert Iscove

Stars: Stacy Keach | Robert Cicchini | Don Harvey | Steve Landesberg | Richard Thomas

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

As: Doctor

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Runtime: 145 min.

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Stars: Raymond J. Barry | Tom Cruise | Kyra Sedgwick | Holly Marie Combs | Caroline Kava

Glory (1989)

As: Gen. Charles Garrison Harker

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Runtime: 122 min.

Directed by: Edward Zwick

Stars: Morgan Freeman | Cary Elwes | Denzel Washington | Matthew Broderick | Jihmi Kennedy

The Pick-up Artist (1987)

As: Fernando Portacarrero

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

Runtime: 81 min.

Directed by: James Toback

Stars: Danny Aiello | Harvey Keitel | Dennis Hopper | Robert Downey Jr. | Molly Ringwald

Matewan (1987)

As: C.E. Lively

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat ...

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: John Sayles

Stars: James Earl Jones | Chris Cooper | David Strathairn | Mary McDonnell | Will Oldham

Static (1985)

As: Frank

Ernie Blick has just lost his job at a crucifix factory. Luckily, for Ernie, this allows him more time to devote to his invention. Yes, Ernie is an inventor -- and he's come up with something big. So big, in fact, Ernie's convinced it will change the way people look at life and death. With the support of his drummer friend Julia and his ex-Green Beret-evangelist cousin, Ernie unveils it to the world. But ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Mark Romanek

Stars: Bob Gunton | Keith Gordon | Amanda Plummer

Soldiers in Hiding (1984)

As: Narrator

A grim portrait of Vietnam War Veterans, living out their lonely lives in the American wilderness, unable to cope with the lasting effects of their traumatic war experiences. (1985 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature.)

Runtime: 53 min.

Directed by: Malcolm Clarke

Stars: Bob Gunton

Rollover (1981)

As: Sal Naftari

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: Alan J. Pakula

Stars: Bob Gunton | Kris Kristofferson | Josef Sommer | Hume Cronyn | Jane Fonda