Search:

Also none of them has a person as the direct object: "u nego byl gnevnyj vid" or "on napisal gnevnoe pis'mo" sound ok even though maybe a bit bookish, but "on byl gnevnyj" doesn't.

This is more like "he was very pessimistic/had a negative attitude" or something like that, which may be fine, but it does not imply that the person was quick to anger.

it's a rare word, it sounds rather bookish, and I would not use it to describe a person. Maybe you could say "u nego byl gnevnyj vid" -- (he looked angry.