Moses Gunn
Born	October 2, 1929 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	December 16, 1993 Guilford, Connecticut

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Born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Mary and George Gunn, he was the eldest of seven children. After his mother died, his family splintered and Moses left home and rode the railroad at just 12 years old. He returned to St. Louis and attended school while living at the home of Jewel Richie, his English and Diction teacher. In 1954, Gunn began a three year stint in the Army. In 1959, he received his B. A. degree from Tennessee State University. Tennessee State University (TSU is a comprehensive urban coeducational Land-grant university founded in 1912 After that, he studied at the University of Kansas from 1959 to 1961 in their graduate program for speech and drama; they belatedly awarded him an M. The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is a public research university with campuses located in Lawrence, Kansas City A. degree in 1989. In March 2008 it was announced that KU will house his memorabilia. ^[1]

An authoritative black character actor of film and TV, Gunn also enjoyed a successful career on stage. He made his NY stage debut in the original off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks (1962). Gunn is best remembered for his portrayal of mobster Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Jonas in the first two Shaft movies, and for his brief role of Booker T. Washington in the 1981 movie Ragtime, a performance which won him an NAACP Image Award. Shaft is a 1971 American Blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5 1856 &ndash November 14 1915 was an American educator orator author and leader of the African-American community Ragtime is a 1981 motion picture based on the Historical novel Ragtime by E The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is one of the oldest and most influential Civil rights organizations He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1977 for his role in the TV mini-series Roots. Roots is a 1977 American television Miniseries based on Alex Haley 's work Roots The Saga of an American Family He also costarred with Avery Brooks on the TV series A Man Called Hawk. Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American Actor, Jazz musician Opera Singer and A Man Called Hawk is a Prime time television series that ran on the ABC television network between January 1989 and May Gunn also appeared in a multi-episode story arc as atheist shop owner Carl Dixon on the sitcom Good Times, as Joe Kagan on Little House on the Prairie and as the character Moses Gage in the 1980s NBC drama Father Murphy. Atheism Good Times is a American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the Little House on the Prairie is an American one-hour dramatic Television program that aired on the NBC network from September 11 1974 to The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's This article is about the television drama For the traditional Irish song see Come All You Warriors. His last notable role was as murder suspect Risley Tucker in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street ("Three Men and Adena"). Homicide Life on the Street is an American Television Police procedural series chronicling the work of a fictional Baltimore

Gunn was a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Omega Psi Phi (ΩΨΦ is an international fraternity and was the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a historically black He died from the complications of asthma in Guilford, Connecticut in 1993. Asthma is a chronic Condition involving the Respiratory system in which the airways occasionally constrict become inflamed, and are Guilford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, that borders Madison, Branford, North Branford

Filmography

• 1964 Nothing But a Man (film debut)
• 1971 Shaft as Bumpy Jonas
• 1972 Shaft's Big Score! as Bumpy Jonas
• 1973 The Iceman Cometh as Joe Mott
• 1973 Kung Fu . Nothing But a Man is a 1964 movie about an African American man in the American South who wants to be treated as "nothing but Shaft is a 1971 American Blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shaft's Big Score, released in 1972, is the second film in the Trilogy in which actor Richard Roundtree starred as the private-eye John The Iceman Cometh is a play written by Eugene O'Neill in 1939. Kung fu and wushu are popular terms that have become synonymous with Chinese Martial arts. . (1 episode). . "The Stone" as Isaac Montola
• 1972 The Hot Rock as Dr. Amusa
• 1974 Amazing Grace as Welton J. Waters
• 1975 Rollerball as Cletus
• 1977 Roots as Kintango
• 1980 The Ninth Configuration as Major Nammack
• 1981 Ragtime as Booker T. Rollerball is a 1975 dystopian fiction Film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by William Harrison, who adapted Roots is a 1977 American television Miniseries based on Alex Haley 's work Roots The Saga of an American Family The Ninth Configuration, (also known as Twinkle Twinkle "Killer" Kane) is an American -made film released in 1980 directed Ragtime is a 1981 motion picture based on the Historical novel Ragtime by E Washington
• 1982 Amityville II: The Possession as Detective Turner
• 1984 The NeverEnding Story as Cairon
• 1984 Firestarter as Dr. Amityville II The Possession is a 1982 Horror film directed by Damiano Damiani. The NeverEnding Story (Die unendliche Geschichte is a 1984 Fantasy film based on the German novel of the same name by Michael Ende Firestarter is a novel by Stephen King originally published in 1980 Herman Pynchot
• 1986 Heartbreak Ridge as Sergeant Webster
• 1989 The Women of Brewster Place
• 1991 Brother Future
• 1991 Perfect Harmony as Zeke

References

External links

• Moses Gunn at the Internet Movie Database

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