Bob Gunton | Warden Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)

While The Shawshank Redemption was a box-office failure for earning only $16 million despite its positive reviews on initial release, we can say that it is among the best movies of Bob Gunton. In the film, he plays the role of corrupt prison warden Samuel Norton, who is involved in a money-laundering operation. As the movie’s primary antagonist, he played the character well, that many would still feel hatred when seeing him even today.

The contrast is obvious when comparing the real Bob Gunton with Samuel Norton. First Gunton served in the military and showed love for his country–an exact deviation from what Samuel Norton was in the movie. Gunton was even given credit and a Bronze Star for coming back to the base to retrieve critical radio equipment during an evacuation during the Vietnam War, lest it falls into enemy hands.