Robert Plunket
Acting
Biography
Robert Plunket (born 1945) is an American author, actor and screenwriter. Plunket is primarily known as an author but also had a brief career as an actor, appearing in Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985), Insomnia (1994) and Autumn in New York (2000). He also co-wrote Insomnia (1994). Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas and raised in Havana and Mexico City. After his short stint as an actor in New York, he moved to Sarasota, Florida, where he became Mr. Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. He is now retired and has “found peace and contentment at a lovely trailer park in Florida.” New Directions publishes his novels Love Junkie and My Search for Warren Harding, described by Danzy Senna in the foreword as “one of the best, and most invigorating books I’d read in years, and certainly the funniest.”
Known For
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
After Hours
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as fate threatens to steal away their future.
Autumn in New York
Veronica suspects that her husband, an attractive teacher, is unfaithful to her. The worries don't even let her sleep, so she decides to go to a sleep therapy to overcome her pathology.