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Sean Gunn

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
The Gunn Brothers

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
October / November 2016

October 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment

The website biography of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn begins like this: “James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri in a large Irish Catholic family. At the age of twelve he began his filmmaking career with an eight-millimeter camera. “His first film featured his brother Sean, an actor on the WB’s The Gilmore Girls, being disemboweled by zombies.” … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
The Gunn Brothers

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