Robert Gunner

Robert Gunner July 27 1931 December 18 2001 was an American actor who played the role of Lieutenant John Landon in the film Planet of the Apes 1968 A sixfootone 200pounder from North Plainfield New Jersey was military service in the US 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