American actor, born in 1945 and known as the warden in The Shawshank Redemption, who played the rogue Starfleet captain Benjamin Maxwell in the fourth-season episode The Wounded.
Bob Gunton is an American actor, born in 1945, who earned Tony Award nominations on Broadway for Evita and Sweeney Todd and is best known on film as Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation he guest stars in the fourth-season episode The Wounded, first shown in 1991, the story that introduced the Cardassians. He plays Captain Benjamin Maxwell of the USS Phoenix, a decorated officer whose family was killed in the Cardassian war. Convinced the Cardassians are rearming, Maxwell begins destroying their ships on his own authority, and his former crewman Miles O'Brien is sent to talk him down.
Gunton's later television work includes 24 and Daredevil.