Jeffrey Hunter
Highest Rated: 100% A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
Lowest Rated: 25% Custer of the West (1968)
Birthday: Nov 25, 1926
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Jeffrey Hunter was the stage name of Henry Herman McKinnies, Jr., an actor whose all too brief career initially showed tremendous star-making potential. Tall, blue-eyed, and magnetically handsome, Hunter was offered a studio contract by talent scouts at 20th Century Fox while studying at UCLA. Often appearing alongside such formidable leading men as Charlton Heston and John Wayne, Hunter's reputation as an appealing co-star grew in the 1950s. He took on memorable roles in three classic John Ford-directed westerns: 1956's "The Searchers," 1958's "The Last Hurrah," and 1960's "Sergeant Rutledge." While the parts proved his meddle as a leading man-in-the-making, Hunter's debut as a top-billed actor in the 1961 Biblical film "King of Kings" yielded mixed reviews, with many critics opining that the then 35 year-old actor looked too young for the part of Jesus. The scathing reviews took their toll, and Hunter scarcely found movie roles in Hollywood during the late 1960s, even going so far as to relocate to Europe for a time to work in B-westerns. In May 1969, Hunter died from a cerebral hemorrhage after suffering two strokes.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mafia Mob | Unknown (Character) | - | 1969 |
25% | 32% | Custer of the West | Capt. Benteen (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Find a Place to Die | Joe Collins (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dimension 5 | Justin Power (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Christmas Kid | Joe Novak (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cry Chicago | Frank Mannata (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Witch Without a Broom | Garver Logan (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trains of Silence | Fred Girard (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Brainstorm | Jim Grayam (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murieta | Joaquin Murieta (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gold for the Caesars | Lacer (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man From Galveston | Timothy Higgins (Character) | - | 1963 |
87% | 90% | The Longest Day | John H. Fuller (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 67% | No Man Is an Island | George R. Tweed (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man-Trap | Matt Jameson (Character) | - | 1961 |
80% | 78% | King of Kings | Jesus (Character) | - | 1961 |
83% | 44% | Hell to Eternity | Guy Gabaldon (Character) | - | 1960 |
91% | 90% | Sergeant Rutledge | Lt. Tom Cantrell (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Key Witness | Fred Morrow (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 75% | In Love and War | Sgt. Nico Kantaylis (Character) | - | 1958 |
86% | 81% | The Last Hurrah | Adam Caulfield, Journalist and Skeffington's Nephew (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Count Five and Die | Captain Bill Ranson (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Gun for a Coward | Bless Keough (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 73% | No Down Payment | David Martin (Character) | - | 1957 |
88% | 36% | The True Story of Jesse James | Frank James (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Way to the Gold | Joe Mundy (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Proud Ones | Thad Anderson (Character) | - | 1956 |
87% | 88% | The Searchers | Martin Pawley (Character) | - | 1956 |
100% | 47% | A Kiss Before Dying | Gordon Grant (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 55% | The Great Locomotive Chase | William A. Fuller (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seven Angry Men | Owen Brown (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 62% | White Feather | Little Dog (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Seven Cities of Gold | Matuwir (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Princess of the Nile | Prince Haidi (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Young Texans | Johnny Colt (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Sailor of the King | Signalman Andrew "Canada" Brown (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 46% | Dreamboat | Bill Ainslee (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 78% | Belles on Their Toes | Dr. Bob Grayson (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lure of the Wilderness | Ben Tyler (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Red Skies of Montana | Ed Miller (Character) | - | 1952 |
63% | 73% | Fourteen Hours | Danny Klempner (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 53% | The Frogmen | Pappy Creighton (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Call Me Mister | The Kid (Character) | - | 1951 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 100% | The Green Hornet | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daniel Boone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1955 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |