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Robert Gunner

Robert Gunner

Actor · 1931 – 2001 · North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA

Robert Gunner (July 27, 1931 - December 18, 2001) was an American actor who played the role of Lieutenant John Landon in the film, Planet of the Apes (1968). A six-foot-one, 200-pounder from North Plainfield, New Jersey, was military service in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War which landed Bob Gunner in show business - on a weekly Navy hour televised from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Later, he studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York and became a professional model - the 'Marlboro Man' in TV commercials and magazine ads and the 'Quiet Man' in Ford video commercials. He had been seen previously in the smaller role of a detective in Caprice (1967).

Movies4

  • Movie7.7

    Planet of the Apes

    1968 · 4.1K votes

  • Movie6.5

    Our Man Flint

    1966 · 134 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Corey: For the People

    1977 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.1

    The Jackals

    1967 · 9 votes

Series1

  • TV7.4

    The Green Hornet

    1966 · 91 votes