Ian Hunter
Acting
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.
Born: June 13, 1900
Place of Birth: Cape Town, South Africa
Known For
The White Unicorn
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
Cape Forlorn
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Gallant Sons
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Strange Cargo
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
I Found Stella Parish
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
The Devil Is a Sissy
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Come Live with Me
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Robert Talbot
as Robert Talbot
as Dr. Swann
as Colonel Jackson
as Dr. Robert Blood, Peter's Father
as Admiral Sir Bryanston Blyth
as Sir John Wyndham
as Air Commodore Watchorn
as Clive Fisher
as Captain Woodhouse - H.M.S. Ajax
as Sir Malcolm Saville
as Henry Redmond
as Sir Richard of the Lea
as Geoffrey Tanner
as Logan
as Arthur Turner
as Doctor Larry Woodhope
as Philip Templar
as Anton
as Charlie Carrington
as Tom Peabody
as Dexter Pomfret
as Roger Carlton
as Reverend Owen Harding
as Dr. John Lanyon
as Eric Keating
as Geoffrey Collis
as Steven V. Land
as Barton Kendrick
as Smitty
as Natural Davis
as Lord Shayne
as Gordon Daly
as Cambreau
as Bert C. Matthews
as King Edward IV
as Jim Creighton (Sentinel editor)
as Clifford 'Cliff' Ames
as Austin Lancing
as Larry Bryant
as Captain Crewe
as Lewis Murray
as Lloyd Rogers (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Bert Ballin
as William Benson
as Peter 'Pete' Snowden
as Phillip Marshall
as King Richard the Lion-Heart
as Self
as Rufus Rondell
as Lloyd Rogers
as Leonide Kirow
as Colonel John Wister
as Roger Hilton
as Anthony Wayne
as Jay Pierce
as Bill Hallam
as Fuller
as Theseus (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Keith Lockridge
as Theseus
as Renny Whiteoaks
as Jim Pearce
as Sir Reginald Ford
as Geoffrey D. 'Geoff' Sherwood
as Sir Marcus Ordeyne
as Peter Middleton
as Johnathan Steele
as Detective Inspector Gregory
as Guy Kennion
as Capt. Harper
as Fergus Wimbush
as Robert Hart
as Dr. John Watson
as Fred Green
as George Miles
as Gordon Kingsley
as William Brown, the Plainclothesman
as Allen Stockbridge
as Alexander Winston
as The Plaintiff's Counsel
as Archie
as Bob Corby
as Martin Bering