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Ian Hunter est un Acteur Britannique né le 13 juin 1900 à Le Cap (Afrique du sud)

Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter
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Nationalité Royaume-uni
Naissance 13 juin 1900 à Le Cap (Afrique du sud)
Mort 23 septembre 1975 (à 75 ans) à Londres (Royaume-uni)

Ian Hunter est un acteur britannique né le 13 juin 1900 au Cap en Afrique du Sud, mort le 23 septembre 1975 à Londres au Royaume-Uni.

Biographie

Ian Hunter was born in the Kenilworth area of Cape Town, South Africa where he spent his childhood. In his teen years he and his parents returned to the family origins in England to live. Sometime between that arrival and the early years of World War I, Hunter began exploring acting. But in 1917 - and being only 17 - he joined the army to serve in France for the year of war still remaining. Within two years he did indeed make his stage-acting debut. Hunter would never forget that the stage was the thing when the lure of moving making called - he would always return through his career. With a jovial face perpetually on the verge of smiling and a friendly and mildly British accent, Hunter had good guy lead written all over him. He decided to sample the relatively young British silent film industry by taking a part in Not for Sale (1924) for British director W.P. Kellino who had started out writing and acting for the theater.

Hunter then made his first trip to the U.S. - Broadway, not Hollywood - because Basil Dean, well known British actor, director, and producer, was producing Sheridan's "The School for Scandal" at the Knickerbocker Theater - unfortunately folding after one performance. It was a more concerted effort with film the next year back in Britain, again with Kellino. He then met up-and-coming mystery and suspense director Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. He did Hitch's The Ring (1927) - about the boxing game, not suspense - and stayed for the director's When Boys Leave Home (1927). And with a few more films into the next year he was back with Hitchcock once more for Easy Virtue (1928), the Noël Coward play. By late 1928 he returned to Broadway for only a months run in the original comedy "Olympia" but stayed on in America via his first connection with Hollywood. The film was Syncopation (1929), his first sound film and that for RKO, that is, one of the early mono efforts, sound mix with the usual silent acting.

As if restless to keep ever cycling back and forth across the Atlantic - fairly typical of Hunter's career - he returned to London for Dean's mono thriller Escape! (1930). There was an interval of fifteen films in toto before Hunter returned to Hollywood and by then he was well established as a leading man. With The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935) with Bette Davis, Hunter made his connection with Warner Bros. But before settling in with them through much of the 1930s, he did three pictures in succession with another gifted and promising British director, Michael Powell. He then began the films he is most remembered from Hollywood's Golden Era. Although a small part, he is completely engaging and in command as the Duke in the Shakespearean extravaganza of Austrian theater master Max Reinhardt, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) for Warner's. It marked the start of a string of nearly thirty films for WB. Among the best remembered was his jovial King Richard in the rollicking The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Hunter was also paired in seven movies with Kay Francis between 1935 and 1938.

Hunter was playing the field as well - he was at Twentieth Century as everybody's favorite father-hero - including Shirley Temple - in The Little Princess (1939). And he was the unforgettable benign guardian angel-like Cambreau in Loew's Strange Cargo (1940) with Clark Gable. He was staying regularly busy in Hollywood until into 1942 when he returned to Britain to serve in the war effort. After the war Hunter stayed on in London, making films and doing stage work. He appeared once more on Broadway in 1948 and made Edward, My Son (1949) for George Cukor. Although there was some American playhouse theater in the mid-1950s, Hunter was bound to England, working once more for Powell in 1961 before retiring in the middle of that decade after nearly a hundred outings before the camera.

Among dozens of film roles, his best-remembered appearances include That Certain Woman (1937) with Bette Davis, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, as King Richard the Lionheart), The Little Princess (1939, as Captain Reginald Crewe) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941, as Dr. Lanyon). Hunter returned to the Robin Hood legend in the 1955 TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood in the recurring role of Sir Richard of the Lea.

Ses meilleurs films

Le plus souvent avec

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(15 films)
Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(11 films)
Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Ian Hunter (85 films)

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AnnéeNomMétierRôle
1994CliffordActeur
1963Kali Yug, déesse de la vengeanceActeurRobert Talbot
1963Le Mystère du temple hindouActeurLe gouverneur
1962Sept heures avant la frontièreActeurLe docteur Swann
1961The Queen's GuardsActeurGeorge Dobbie
1961Le Cadavre qui tueActeurDr. Robert Blood, le père de Peter
1961Le trésor de Monte-CristoActeurLe colonel Wilfrid Jackson
1960Norman dans la marineActeurAmiral Sir Bryanston Blyth
1959Aux frontières des IndesActeurSir John Wyndham
1958Fusées à gogoActeurCommodore Watchorn
1957She Played With FireActeur
1956La Bataille du Rio de la PlataActeurCapitaine Woodhouse, HMS Ajax
1954Eight O'Clock WalkActeurGeoffrey Tanner
1953Sa Dernière MissionActeur
1952It Started in ParadiseActeurArthur Turner
1949Édouard, mon filsActeurDocteur Larry Woodhope
1947White Cradle InnActeur
1947The White UnicornActeur
1946La Perle noireActeurCharlie Carrington
1943Éternité et un jourActeurDexter Promfret
1943It Comes Up LoveActeur
1942Safeguarding Military InformationActeur
1942A Yank at EtonActeurRoger Carlton
1941Billy the Kid le réfractaireActeurEric Keating
1941Chagrins d'amourActeurRévérend Owen Harding
1941La Danseuse des Folies ZiegfeldActeurGeoffrey Collis
1941Dr. Jekyll et Mr. HydeActeurLe docteur John Lanyon
1941Viens vivre avec moiActeurBarton Kendrick
1941Andy Hardy's Private SecretaryActeurSteven V. Land
1940Broadway qui danseActeurBert C. Matthews
1940Le cargo mauditActeurCambreau
1940Les Hommes de la merActeurSmitty Smith, un alias de Thomas Fenwick
1940Chante mon amourActeurLord Shayne
1940DulcyActeur
1939Petite PrincesseActeurCapitaine Reginald Crewe
1939Tarzan trouve un filsActeurM. Austin Lancing
1939Bad Little AngelActeur
1939Emporte mon cœurActeurLarry Bryant
1939MaisieActeur
1939La Tour de LondresActeurÉdouard IV
1939Yes, My Darling DaughterActeurLewis Murray
1938Adieu pour toujoursActeurPhillip Marshall
1938Les Aventures de Robin des BoisActeurRichard Cœur de Lion
1938Secrets of an ActressActeur
1938Nuits de balActeurWilliam Benson
1938Comet Over BroadwayActeur
1937Une journée de printempsActeurRoger Hilton
193752nd StreetActeur
1937Stolen HolidayActeurAnthony 'Tony' Wayne
1937Une certaine femmeActeurLloyd Rogers
1937ConfessionActeurLeonide
1937La TornadeActeurColonel John Wister
1936Au seuil de la vieActeurJay Pierce
1936The White AngelActeurReporter Fuller of the London Times
1935Le Songe d'une nuit d'étéActeurThésée, duc d'Athènes
1935Une femme dans la rueActeurGeoffrey D. 'Geoff' Sherwood
1935La Femme traquéeActeurKeith Lockridge
1935JalnaActeur
1935LazybonesActeurSir Reginald Ford
1935The Morals of MarcusActeur
1935The phantom lightActeurJim Pearce
1934Something Always HappensActeurPeter Middleton
1934The Night of the PartyActeurGuy Kennington, le secrétaire de Lord Studholme
1934Death At Broadcasting HouseActeur
1934The Silver SpoonActeur
1934The Church MouseActeur
1933Orders Is OrdersActeur
1933The Man from TorontoActeur
1932Sherlock Holmes : Le Signe des QuatreActeurDocteur Watson
1932The Water GipsiesActeur
1932Marry MeActeurRobert Hart
1931Cape ForlornActeur
1931Sally in Our AlleyActeur
1930The Valley of GhostsActeur
1930Escape!Acteur
1929SyncopationActeur
1928Le passé ne meurt pasActeurL’avocat
1928His House in OrderActeur
1928The PhysicianActeur
1928The ThoroughbredActeur
1927C'est la vie...ActeurArchie
1927Le RingActeurBob Corby, le champion
1925ConfessionsActeur
1925A Girl of LondonActeur
1924Not For SaleActeur