- Born
- DiedJuly 19, 2005 · Burbank, California, USA (complications after surgery to improve circulation to his legs)
- Birth nameEdward Heward Bunker
- Nicknames
- Bunk
- Eddie
- Height6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
- Edward Bunker was born on December 31, 1933 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Reservoir Dogs (1992), Runaway Train (1985) and The Longest Yard (2005). He was married to Jennifer Steele. He died on July 19, 2005 in Burbank, California, USA.
- SpouseJennifer Steele(1979 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)
- Was guilty of numerous crimes since early childhood, including smashing a neighbor's backyard incinerator with a claw hammer at 3, setting fire to a neighbor's garage at 4 and jamming a fork in a boy's eyeball at 15. By 17, Bunker had established himself as the Doogie Howser of the California penal system, parlaying a series of robberies, assaults and the stabbing of a prison guard into a stint in San Quentin (he was the youngest inmate there at the time).
- Was once convicted of a bank robbery.
- Was the basis for Jon Voight's character (Nate) in Heat (1995).
- As a child, he used to swim at Hearst Castle (while William Randolph Hearst was still alive).
- Straight Time (1978), based on his novel "No Beast So Fearce", won first Prize in the San Mateo Video Festival in 1979.
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