Bob Gunton

Robert Patrick 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, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in Patch Adams, and President Juan Peron in the original Broadway production of Evita, for which he received a Tony Awardnomination. He also appears in the Daredevil TV series as Leland Owlsley.
== Early life and education ==
Gunton was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Rose Marie (néeBanovetz) and Robert Patrick Gunton, Sr., a labor union executive.[1] He attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California, the Paulist Seminary St Peter's College, in Baltimore, Maryland, and the University of California, Irvine. A lifelong devout Roman Catholic, Gunton had initially planned to become a priest.[2][3]Gunton served in the United States Army (1969–71), earning a Bronze Star for valor and the Vietnam Service Medal.[citation needed]
== Career ==
Gunton played the role of Juan Peron in the original 1980 Broadway production of Evita, earning a nomination for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance. He later starred in the title role of a 1989 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd and received a second Tony nomination for his portrayal. Additional Broadway credits include Working, King of Hearts, The Music Women, How I Got That Story, and Big River.
Gunton portrayed President Richard Nixon in a recreation of the Watergate tapes incident for Nightline. He also played President Woodrow Wilson in the film Iron Jawed Angels (2004). Gunton is also known for his guest starring role as Capt. Benjamin Maxwell in the well-received 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Wounded". Gunton played Warden Samuel Norton, the head of Shawshank State Prison and the primary antagonist in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) opposite Tim Robbins. Gunton played Cecil Dobbs in the 2011 film The Lincoln Lawyer.
Gunton also guest starred in the first season of Desperate Housewives and the sixth season of 24, where he portrayed United States Secretary of DefenseEthan Kanin. He signed on as series regular afterward and reprised the role of Kanin but now as the Chief of Staff to the new president, Allison Taylor, in the show's seventh season as well as the two-hour television prequel film, 24: Redemption. He returned again for the eighth season but this time as the President's Secretary of State. Gunton portrays Leland Owlsley in the 2015 TV series Daredevil.[4] Gunton made a guest appearance on[5] Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in January 2017.
== Select stage roles ==
* How I Got That Story - The Historical Event
* Evita - Juan Peron
* Big River - The King
* Sweeney Todd - Sweeney
* King of Hearts
* Working - Various Roles
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1981	Rollover 	Sal Naftari 	
1985	Static 	Frank 	
1987	The Pick-up Artist 	Fernando Portacarrero 	
1987	Matewan 	C.E. Lively 	
1989	Cookie 	Richie Segretto 	
1989	Glory 	Gen. Harker 	
1989	Born on the Fourth of July 	Doctor 	
1991	JFK 	TV Newsman 	
1992	The Public Eye 	Older Agent 	
1992	Sinatra 	Tommy Dorsey 	
1993	Father Hood 	Lazzaro 	
1993	Demolition Man 	Chief George Earle 	
1994	The Shawshank Redemption 	Warden Samuel Norton 	
1995	Dolores Claiborne 	Mr. Pease 	
1995	Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 	Burton Quinn 	
1995	In Pursuit of Honor 	Colonel John Hardesty 	
1996	Broken Arrow 	Pritchett 	
1996	The Glimmer Man 	Frank Deverell 	
1996	The Siege at Ruby Ridge 	Bo Gritz 	
1997	A Thousand Acres 	Judge 	uncredited
1997	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 	Finley Largent 	
1997	Elvis meets Nixon 	President Nixon 	
1997	Buffalo Soldiers 	Col. Benjamin Grierson 	
1998	Patch Adams 	Dean Walcott 	
1999	Bats 	Dr. Alexander McCabe 	
2000	Running Mates 	Terrence Randall 	
2000	The Perfect Storm 	Alexander McAnally III, owner of the yacht the Mistral	
2001	61* 	Yankees Owner/President Dan Topping 	
2002	Boat Trip 	Boat Captain 	
2004	I Heart Huckabees 	Mr. Silver 	
2004	Iron Jawed Angels 	President Woodrow Wilson 	
2006	Believe in Me 	Hugh Moreland 	
2007	Dead Silence 	Edward Ashen 	
2007	Fracture 	Judge Gardner 	
2007	Numb 	Dr. Townsend 	
2007	Pandemic 	Dr. Max Sorkosky 	
2007	Rendition 	Lars Whitman 	
2008	The Lazarus Project 	Father Ezra 	
2009	Tenure 	William Thurber 	
2010	The Trial 	Joe Whetstone 	
2011	The Lincoln Lawyer 	Cecil Dobbs 	
2011	Kill the Irishman 	Jerry Merke 	
2011	Get the Gringo 	Warren Kaufmann 	
2012	Trouble with the Curve 	Watson 	
2012	Argo 	Secretary of State Cyrus Vance 	
2013	Jimmy 	Sheriff Brinson 	
2013	Runner Runner 	Dean Alex Monroe 	
2013	Live at the Foxes Den 	Tony O'Hara 	
2015	Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant	Flight School Instructor 	
2015	The 33 	President Sebastián Piñera 	
2018	Unbroken: Path to Redemption 	Major Zeigler 	
2018	The Gettysburg Address 	William Herndon 	voice
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1988 	Miami Vice 	Rivas 	Episode: "Heart of Night" (first aired November 18, 1988)
1990 	Law & Order 	Gil Himes 	
1990 	Judgment 	Monsignor Beauvais 	
1990 	Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Firehouse	Chief Kirby 	
1991 	A Woman Named Jackie 	Jacqueline's stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss	
1991 	Star Trek: The Next Generation 	Captain Benjamin Maxwell 	Episode: "The Wounded"
1993 	Wild Palms 	Dr. Tobias Schenkl 	miniseries
1994 	Roswell 	Frank Joyce 	
1996 	The Siege at Ruby Ridge 	Bo Gritz 	
2002 	Greg the Bunny 	Junction Jack 	
2002 	Touched By an Angel 	Sidney Alcott 	1 episode
2003 	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 	Director Robert Carvallo 	1 episode
2003 	Peacemakers 	Mayor Malcolm Smith 	
2004–2006	Desperate Housewives 	Noah Taylor 	
2004 	Monk 	Trudy's father, Dwight Ellison 	
2005 	Nip/Tuck 	Agent Sagamore 	
2006 	Pepper Dennis 	Dick Dinkle 	
2006 	E-Ring 	General Hughes 	3 episodes
2007 	Women's Murder Club 	Arthur Lazar 	Episode: "Train In Vain"
2007 	The Batman 	Gorman 	
2007–2010	24 	Ethan Kanin 	31 episodes
2008 	World War II: Behind Closed Doors 	President Franklin D Roosevelt 	BBC documentary with historical reconstructions [6]
2008 	24: Redemption 	Ethan Kanin 	Television film
2010 	Royal Pains 	Gen. William Collins 	
2011 	Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 	Marshall Phelps 	
2011 	Family Guy 	Warden 	Episode: "Cool Hand Peter"
2012 	Wilfred 	Warner 	Episode: "Now"
2014 	New Girl 	Ed 	Episode: "Basketball"
2015 	Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street 	Ranger's grandfather 	Episodes: "Ranger and the Mysterious Metamorphosis" 
and "Ranger and the Fabled Flower of Normal Street"
2015 	Daredevil 	Leland Owlsley 	
2018 	The Blacklist 	 	Episode: “Nicholas T Moore”
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