Biography

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).
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Best known as the optimistic, patriotic astronaut, Landon, from the original Planet of the Apes, who Heston's character criticizes through the movie first act as they wander the planet before the apes are introduced. Ironically, this was his last role.

His astronaut character, Landon, from the original Planet of the Apes, is the protagonist of the book 'Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes' centering on Landon after his capture.

1949 graduate of North Plainfield High School.