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.

Filmography

• 2025The Gettysburg Address — William Herndon (voice)
• 2024Purgatory Station — Horatio Grimes
• 2024The Inheritance — Charles Abernathy
• 2021Ghostbusters: Afterlife — The Ghost Farmer
• 2021Scarlett — Danny
• Project Blue Book — Harry S. Truman
• 2018Alex & the List — Mr. Stern
• The Cool Kids — Colonel Christianson
• 2018Unbroken: Path to Redemption — Major
• 2017Mountain Top — Maxwell Forrest
• Trial & Error — Jeremiah Davis
• 2015Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant — Flight School Instructor
• Marvel's Daredevil — Leland Owlsley
• 2015The 33 — President Sebastián Piñera
• 2014Decoding Annie Parker — Dr. Benton
• 2013Highland Park — Bert
• 2013Jimmy — Sheriff Brinson
• 2013Live at the Foxes Den — Tony O'Hara
• 2013Runner Runner — Dean Alex Monroe
• The Blacklist — Nicholas Moore
• 2012Argo — Cyrus Vance
• Elementary — Frederick Wentz
• 2012Get the Gringo — Mr. Kaufmann
• 2012Trouble with the Curve — Watson
• 2011Kill the Irishman — Jerry Merke
• New Girl — Ed
• 2011The Least of These — Father Thomas Peters
• 2011The Lincoln Lawyer — Cecil Dobbs
• Up All Night — Tom
• 2010Tenure — William Thurber
• 2010The Trial — Joe Whetstone
• 2008Player 5150 — Nick
• 2008The Lazarus Project — Father Ezra
• The Mentalist — Alexander Harrington
• World War Two: Behind Closed Doors — Franklin Roosevelt
• 2007Dead Silence — Edward Ashen
• 2007Fracture — Judge Gardner
• 2007Numb — Dr. Townshend
• Pandemic — Max Sorkosky
• 2007Rendition — Lars Whitman
• 2007Veronica in the FBI — Principal Harris
• Women's Murder Club
• 2006Believe in Me — Hugh Moreland
• Pepper Dennis — Dick Dinkle
• 2005Dallas 362 — Joe
• E-Ring
• Numb3rs — Boyd Resnick
• Boston Legal — Attorney William Connolly
• Desperate Housewives — Noah Taylor
• 2004I ♥ Huckabees — Mr. Silver
• 2004Iron Jawed Angels — President Woodrow Wilson
• 2004Judas — Caiaphas
• The Batman — Gorman (voice)
• 2003Broadway's Lost Treasures — Juan Perón (segment "Evita")
• Mister Sterling — California Governor Marino
• Nip/Tuck — Agent Sagamore
• Peacemakers — Mayor Smith
• 2002Boat Trip — Boat Captain
• Greg the Bunny — 'Junction' Jack Mars
• Monk — Dwight Ellison
• 2002Scenes of the Crime — Steven, Jimmy's Partner
• The Court
• 2002The Pact — James Harte
• 24 — Ethan Kanin
• 200161* — Dan Topping
• 2001When Billie Beat Bobby — Jerry Perenchio
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Robert Carvallo
• 2000Running Mates — Sen. Terrence Randall
• 2000The Perfect Storm — Alexander McAnally III
• 1999Bats — Dr. Alexander McCabe
• Family Guy — Warden (voice)
• Family Law — Judge Mason
• Judging Amy — Dr. Alan Foster
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Lawrence Hendricks Sr.
• 1998Patch Adams — Dean Walcott
• 1997A Thousand Acres — Judge (uncredited)
• Ally McBeal — Michaelson
• 1997Buffalo Soldiers — Col. Benjamin Grierson
• 1997Changing Habits — Bishop Creighton
• 1997Elvis Meets Nixon — Richard M. Nixon
• 1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil — Finley Largent
• 1996Broken Arrow — Pritchett
• Spin City — Governor Riley
• 1996The Glimmer Man — Frank Deverell
• 1996The Siege at Ruby Ridge — Bo Gritz
• The Siege at Ruby Ridge — Bo Gritz
• 1995Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls — Burton Quinn
• Courthouse — Homer Conklin
• 1995Dolores Claiborne — Mr. Pease
• 1995In Pursuit of Honor — Col. John Hardesty
• 1995Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The Outer Limits — Clute Nichols
• 1994Cosmic Slop — President Ellis (segment 'Space Traders')
• 1994Roswell — Frank Joyce
• 1994The Shawshank Redemption — Warden Norton
• Touched by an Angel — Sidney Alcott
• 1993Demolition Man — Chief George Earle
• 1993Father Hood — Lazzaro
• Wild Palms — Dr. Tobias Schenkl
• 1992Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster — Larry Dietrick
• 1992Jennifer Eight — Goodridge
• 1992Ladykiller — Wolkowski
• 1992Missing Pieces — Mr Gabor
• 1992Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life — Texas Preacher
• 1992Patriot Games — Interviewer
• Sinatra — Tommy Dorsey
• 1992The Public Eye — Older Agent
• A Woman Named Jackie — Hugh Auchincloss
• 1991JFK — TV Newsman #3
• 1991Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis — Chaplain
• 1991Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin — Asst. D.A. Scott Willard
• 1990Judgment — Monsignor Beauvais
• Law & Order — Gil Himes
• 1990The Bride in Black — Sydney
• 1989Born on the Fourth of July — Doctor #1
• 1989Cookie — Richie Segretto
• 1989Glory — Gen. Charles Garrison Harker
• 1989Unconquered — Gov. George Wallace
• 1988Forever James Dean — Narrator (voice)
• Hothouse — Dr. Leonard Schrader
• 1987Matewan — C.E. Lively
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Capt. Benjamin Maxwell
• 1987The Pick-up Artist — Fernando Portacarrero
• 1986Adam: His Song Continues — Edgar Milton
• L.A. Law — Bob Westin
• 1986Static — Frank
• 1985Finnegan Begin Again — Christian Jameson
• The Equalizer — Cronin
• Miami Vice — Rivas
• 1984Soldiers in Hiding — Narrator
• 1982Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal — Harry Gibbs
• 1981Rollover — Sal Naftari
• Ghostkiller — Fr. Wilson O'Rourke

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1999"Bats" Abound — Self