- Born
- DiedJuly 19, 2005 · Burbank, California, USA (complications after surgery to improve circulation to his legs)
- Birth nameEdward Heward Bunker
- Nicknames
- Bunk
- Eddie
- Height6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
- Edward Bunker was born on December 31, 1933 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Reservoir Dogs (1992), Runaway Train (1985) and The Longest Yard (2005). He was married to Jennifer Steele. He died on July 19, 2005 in Burbank, California, USA.
- SpouseJennifer Steele(1979 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)
- Was once convicted of a bank robbery.
- Was the basis for Jon Voight's character (Nate) in Heat (1995).
- Was guilty of numerous crimes since early childhood, including smashing a neighbor's backyard incinerator with a claw hammer at 3, setting fire to a neighbor's garage at 4 and jamming a fork in a boy's eyeball at 15. By 17, Bunker had established himself as the Doogie Howser of the California penal system, parlaying a series of robberies, assaults and the stabbing of a prison guard into a stint in San Quentin (he was the youngest inmate there at the time).
- He was a close friend of Michael Mann since the two worked on the screenplay adaptation of his first novel, "No Beast So Fierce". Bunker worked on Heat (1995)--as prison technical advisor--with Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Kevin Gage and Dennis Haysbert. He taught them how to think, react and walk like ex-prison convicts. At one time, he announced that he and Mann are working closely on a TV series about gang life in prison, but the series was never produced.
- He met Danny Trejo in California's Folsom Prison in the late '70s. The two became close friends and since worked in several films together: Runaway Train (1985), Heat (1995), Animal Factory (2000).
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