Richard Gunn (actor)

Richard Gunn (sometimes credited as Richard Neal)^[4] was born in Thousand Oaks, California,^[5] and is the stepson of composer Earle Hagen who composed The Andy Griffith Show theme along with the themes for I Spy and Mod Squad, among others.^{[failed verification]} He was raised in Thousand Oaks and Palm Desert, California with his two sisters. He attended UC Santa Cruz and graduated with honors.^{[citation needed]}

Gunn spent his first summer out of university performing in Shakespeare's Richard III and As You Like It with the professional repertory theater company Shakespeare Santa Cruz.^[6] His first television success came as the series regular role of Calvin "Sketchy" Theodore in the television series Dark Angel,^[7] which ran for two seasons on Fox. Dark Angel also won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Television New Dramatic Series.^[8] In 2013, Gunn was cast as Chief of Police John Sanders, in the BYUtv series Granite Flats.^[9][10][11] The show ran three seasons until 2015 and co starred Parker Posey and Christopher Lloyd and became available on Netflix in May 2015.^[12] Gunn was then cast as Aitor Quantic in the third and final season of the Netflix original Hemlock Grove,^[13][14][15] which premièred October 23, 2015.^[3][16] Gunn has appeared in numerous films and television episodes, and starred opposite James Caan and Paul Sorvino in the critically acclaimed Lionsgate release For the Love of Money.^[17] Gunn is also featured along with Charlize Theron in the thriller, Dark Places, which is based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.^[18][19]

From 2008 to 2011, Gunn took a break from the entertainment industry to live on a ranch near Sequoia Park with his then fiancé, writer and producer Jenna Mattison. Mattison and Gunn married on February 14, 2013^[6] and currently live in Los Angeles, California.

• Richard Gunn at IMDb