Ian Hunter

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1900-06-13 (75 years old)

Deathday

1975-09-23

Place of Birth

Cape Town, South Africa

Ian Hunter

Biography

Ian Hunter (13 June 1900 – 22 September 1975) was a British character actor. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Hunter, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1941

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Dr. John Lanyon

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as King Richard the Lion-Heart

1941

Come Live with Me

as Barton Kendrick

1939

The Little Princess

as Captain Crewe

1939

Tarzan Finds a Son!

as Austin Lancing

1939

Tower of London

as King Edward IV

1928

Easy Virtue

as The Plaintiff's Counsel

1927

The Ring

as Bob Corby

1941

1956

The Battle of the River Plate

as Captain Woodhouse - H.M.S. Ajax

1946

Bedelia

as Charlie Carrington

1939

Maisie

as Clifford 'Cliff' Ames

1940

Strange Cargo

as Cambreau

1961

Doctor Blood's Coffin

as Dr. Robert Blood, Peter's Father

1939

Bad Little Angel

as Jim Creighton (Sentinel editor)

1937

Confession

as Leonide Kirow

1937

Another Dawn

as Colonel John Wister

1933

The Man from Toronto

as Fergus Wimbush

1949

Edward, My Son

as Doctor Larry Woodhope

1937

That Certain Woman

as Lloyd Rogers

1954

Eight O'Clock Walk

as Geoffrey Tanner

1940

Bitter Sweet

as Lord Shayne

1934

Death at Broadcasting House

as Detective Inspector Gregory

1938

The Sisters

as William Benson

1941

Billy the Kid

as Eric Keating

1934

Something Always Happens

as Peter Middleton

1939

Broadway Serenade

as Larry Bryant

1941

Smilin' Through

as Reverend Owen Harding

1957

Fortune Is a Woman

as Clive Fisher

1935

The Phantom Light

as Jim Pearce

1937

Call It a Day

as Roger Hilton

1940

Dulcy

as Gordon Daly

1938

Always Goodbye

as Phillip Marshall

1938

Secrets of an Actress

as Peter 'Pete' Snowden

1935

The Girl from 10th Avenue

as Geoffrey D. 'Geoff' Sherwood

1956

The Door in the Wall

as Henry Redmond

1937

Stolen Holiday

as Anthony Wayne

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1934

The Church Mouse

as Johnathan Steele

1940

Gallant Sons

as Natural Davis

1931

Sally in Our Alley

as George Miles

1935

Lazybones

as Sir Reginald Ford

1961

1939

1947

1952

It Started in Paradise

as Arthur Turner

1935

I Found Stella Parish

as Keith Lockridge

1943

It Comes Up Love

as Tom Peabody

1962

Guns of Darkness

as Dr. Swann

1960

The Bulldog Breed

as Admiral Sir Bryanston Blyth

1931

Cape Forlorn

as Gordon Kingsley

1947

The White Unicorn

as Philip Templar

1938

Comet Over Broadway

as Bert Ballin

1936

1941

Ziegfeld Girl

as Geoffrey Collis

1936

1936

To Mary - with Love

as Bill Hallam

1942

A Yank at Eton

as Roger Carlton

1940

Broadway Melody of 1940

as Bert C. Matthews

1935

Jalna

as Renny Whiteoaks

1929

Syncopation

as Alexander Winston

1924

Not For Sale

as Martin Bering

1930

The Valley of Ghosts

as Andrew McLeod

1963

1932

The Water Gipsies

as Fred Green

1925

Confessions

as Charles Oddy

1934

1934

The Silver Spoon

as Capt Watts-Wynyard

1943

Forever and a Day

as Dexter Pomfret

1934

No Escape

as Jim Brandon

1932

Marry Me

as Robert Hart

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Lloyd Rogers (archive footage) (uncredited)

1935

A Dream Comes True

as Theseus (archive footage) (uncredited)

1937

52nd Street

as Rufus Rondell

1935

The Morals of Marcus

as Sir Marcus Ordeyne

1933

Orders Is Orders

as Capt. Harper

1958

Rockets Galore

as Air Commodore Watchorn

1928

His House in Order

as Hilary Jesson

1927

Downhill

as Archie

1959

North West Frontier

as Sir John Wyndham

1954

Don't Blame the Stork

as Sir George Redway

1930

Escape!

as William Brown, the Plainclothesman

1929

The Thoroughbred

as Allen Stockbridge

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