Robert Gunner

Robert Gunner

Born
27 July 1931
Died
18 December 2001 (aged 70)
Place of birth
North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Birth name
Robert Wolfmayer
Height
185 cm
Known for
Actor

Robert Gunner 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, it 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).