Guillory, Bennet

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GUILLORY, Bennet

(Ben Guillory, Bennett Guillory)

PERSONAL

Education: Studied acting at the American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA.

Addresses: Office—c/o Robey Theatre Company, 5211 Kester Ave., Sherman Oaks, CA 91411; 4444 Riverside Dr., Suite 110, Burbank, CA 91505.

Career: Actor and director. Black Actors Theatre at American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA, director, 1978–80; Robey Theatre Company, Sherman Oaks, CA, cofounder, 1994, chair of the board, producing artistic director, coordinator of Playwright Lab, and director and producer of Play Reading Series 35 at the MET Theatre and the Actors' Gang Theatre. Director of actors showcase, Chicago, IL, 2002. Also known as Bennett Guillory.

Awards, Honors: Image Award, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), best director, 2001, for The Love of Freedom, Toussaint, Part 1; Image Award, DramaLogue Award, and San Francisco Critics Circle Award, all for Are You Now or Have You Ever Been.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Grady, The Color Purple, Warner Bros., 1985.

Dr. Stone, The Kindred, Vestron Video, 1986.

Achilles Kewen, Walker, Universal, 1987.

George Sterling, Maid to Order, New Century Vista, 1987.

Commander Simpson, Open Fire, 1994.

(As Ben Guillory) Champion Killer, Peacock Films, 1994.

(As Ben Guillory) Mr. Salas, Falling Like This, Outrider Pictures, 2000.

Stan Wilson, 3 Strikes, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 2000.

Cletus, Rush of the Palms, 2001.

They Crawl (also known as Crawlers), Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, 2001.

Ophelia Learns to Swim, c. 2001.

T. P., Our Father, 2004.

Television Appearances; Series:

Host, Martin Luther King, PBS, beginning 1985.

Dave Conner, Dangerous Women, syndicated, 1991.

Walter Barber, The Young and the Restless (also known as Y & R), CBS, 1992–1994.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Hannibal's father, The Tuskegee Airmen, HBO, 1995.

Willie, America's Dream, HBO, 1996.

Mr. Hamilton, Midnight Blue, Black Entertainment Television, 2000.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Harry Crawford, "How Not to Marry a Millionaire," The Jeffersons, CBS, 1983.

Santa Barbara, NBC, 1983.

Mr. Lionel, "24 Karat Dead," Mike Hammer, CBS, 1984.

Executive, "Overture," Berrenger's, NBC, 1985.

Captain, "The Victory," Dynasty, ABC, 1986.

The prosecutor, "Sermon from the Cell," Amen, NBC, 1986.

"The Jungle Fighter," Houston Knights, CBS, 1988.

Mr. Petty, "Chicken Pox," Life Goes On, ABC, 1990.

"Lose the Boss," L.A. Law, NBC, 1991.

"Clean Kill," Dark Justice, CBS, 1993.

"Pygmalion," Dark Justice, CBS, 1993.

Mr. Foster, "Guns and Gossip," My So–Called Life, ABC, 1994.

Mr. Foster, "The Substitute," My So–Called Life, ABC, 1994.

Medical big shot, "Prophet Motive," Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (also known as Deep Space Nine, DS9, and Star Trek: DS9), syndicated, 1995.

Second merchant, "Points of Departure," Babylon 5, syndicated, 1995.

Waldo, "Red Wind," Fallen Angels, Showtime, c. 1995.

Leif Tanner, "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars," Babylon 5, syndicated, 1997.

(As Ben Guillory) Professor Dubotu, "Embassy," JAG, CBS, 1998.

Celebrity Profile: Danny Glover, E! Entertainment Television, 1998.

Percy, "Speaking in Tongues," Linc's, Showtime, 1999.

Arthur Ethelridge, "Culture Crash," Judging Amy, CBS, 2000.

(As Ben Guillory) Bob Bradshaw, "Worst Block," The District, CBS, 2000.

(As Ben Guillory) The source, "Brain Drain," Charmed, The WB, 2001.

(As Ben Guillory) The source, "Charmed Again: Parts 1 & 2," Charmed, The WB, 2001.

(As Ben Guillory) "Feeding Frenzy," The Guardian, CBS, 2001.

Middle–aged man, "Still Scalping," Still Standing, CBS, 2002.

Uncle Willie, "Right to Die," First Monday, CBS, 2002.

Representative Jackson, "7A WF 83429," The West Wing, NBC, 2003.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

(As Ben Guillory) Mr. Johnson, First Monday, CBS, 2002.

Army surgeon, Threat Matrix, ABC, 2003.

Stage Appearances:

Miss Evers' Boys, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1990.

Blues for Mister Charlie, University of Southern California, Bing Theatre, Los Angeles, 1998.

Sam Foster, The Last Season, Robey Theatre Company, Stage 52, Los Angeles, 2001.

Toussaint, The Love of Freedom, Toussaint, Part 1, Robey Theatre Company, Greenway Arts Theatre, Los Angeles, c. 2001.

Our Father, Laney and Bravo Theatres, Oakland, CA, 2002.

Appeared as Paul Robeson, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, Illustrated Stage; and as Troy Maxson, Fences, Sacramento Theatre Production, Sacramento, CA, and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, San Francisco, CA. Appeared in The Blood Knot, The Lady of Larkspur Station, The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, Strictly Matrimony, and To Be Young Gifted & Black, all American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA. Appeared in Black Bottom, Los Angeles Theatre Center; Hairball, Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, Los Angeles; Les Blancs, Oakland Ensemble Theatre, Oakland, CA; Lesson from Aloes, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA; Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, Rainbow Connection Theatre; Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Arizona Theatre Company, AZ; Souls on Fire, Robey Theatre Company; Toys in the Attic, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum; and Winter Crane, Fountain Theatre. Also appeared in The Cherry Orchard, Desire under the Elms, Julius Caesar, The Misanthrope, Othello, Peer Gynt, The Taming of the Shrew.

Stage Director:

Blues for Mister Charlie, University of Southern California, Bing Theatre, Los Angeles, 1998.

Dessalines (The Heart) Blood and Liberation: For the Love of Freedom, Part II, Robey Theatre Company, Greenway Cort Theatre, Los Angeles, 2002.

For the Love of Freedom, Part III: Christophe (the Spirit) Passion and Glory (also known as Christophe), Robey Theatre Company, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre Three, Los Angeles, 2004.

Also the director of Bee–Luther–Hatchee, An Empress Like Renn, and Souls on Fire.