Portrait of Ian Hunter

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

Filmography

1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1963
1962
Guns of Darkness

as Dr. Swann

1961
1961
Doctor Blood's Coffin

as Dr. Robert Blood, Peter's Father

1960
The Bulldog Breed

as Admiral Sir Bryanston Blyth

1959
North West Frontier

as Sir John Wyndham

1958
Rockets Galore

as Air Commodore Watchorn

1957
Fortune Is a Woman

as Clive Fisher

1956
The Battle of the River Plate

as Captain Woodhouse - H.M.S. Ajax

1956
Armchair Theatre

as Sir Malcolm Saville

1956
The Door in the Wall

as Henry Redmond

1955
The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sir Richard of the Lea

1954
Eight O'Clock Walk

as Geoffrey Tanner

1952
It Started in Paradise

as Arthur Turner

1949
Edward, My Son

as Doctor Larry Woodhope

1947
The White Unicorn

as Philip Templar

1947
1946
Bedelia

as Charlie Carrington

1943
It Comes Up Love

as Tom Peabody

1943
Forever and a Day

as Dexter Pomfret

1942
A Yank at Eton

as Roger Carlton

1941
Smilin' Through

as Reverend Owen Harding

1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Dr. John Lanyon

1941
Billy the Kid

as Eric Keating

1941
Ziegfeld Girl

as Geoffrey Collis

1941
1941
Come Live with Me

as Barton Kendrick

1940
Gallant Sons

as Natural Davis

1940
Bitter Sweet

as Lord Shayne

1940
Dulcy

as Gordon Daly

1940
Strange Cargo

as Cambreau

1940
Broadway Melody of 1940

as Bert C. Matthews

1939
Tower of London

as King Edward IV

1939
Bad Little Angel

as Jim Creighton (Sentinel editor)

1939
Maisie

as Clifford 'Cliff' Ames

1939
Tarzan Finds a Son!

as Austin Lancing

1939
Broadway Serenade

as Larry Bryant

1939
The Little Princess

as Captain Crewe

1939
1938
Breakdowns of 1938

as Lloyd Rogers (archive footage) (uncredited)

1938
Comet Over Broadway

as Bert Ballin

1938
The Sisters

as William Benson

1938
Secrets of an Actress

as Peter 'Pete' Snowden

1938
Always Goodbye

as Phillip Marshall

1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood

as King Richard the Lion-Heart

1937
52nd Street

as Rufus Rondell

1937
That Certain Woman

as Lloyd Rogers

1937
Confession

as Leonide Kirow

1937
Another Dawn

as Colonel John Wister

1937
Call It a Day

as Roger Hilton

1937
Stolen Holiday

as Anthony Wayne

1936
1936
To Mary - with Love

as Bill Hallam

1936
1935
A Dream Comes True

as Theseus (archive footage) (uncredited)

1935
I Found Stella Parish

as Keith Lockridge

1935
Jalna

as Renny Whiteoaks

1935
The Phantom Light

as Jim Pearce

1935
Lazybones

as Sir Reginald Ford

1935
The Girl from 10th Avenue

as Geoffrey D. 'Geoff' Sherwood

1935
The Morals of Marcus

as Sir Marcus Ordeyne

1934
Something Always Happens

as Peter Middleton

1934
The Church Mouse

as Johnathan Steele

1934
Death at Broadcasting House

as Detective Inspector Gregory

1934
1933
Orders Is Orders

as Capt. Harper

1933
The Man from Toronto

as Fergus Wimbush

1932
Marry Me

as Robert Hart

1932
The Water Gipsies

as Fred Green

1931
Sally in Our Alley

as George Miles

1931
Cape Forlorn

as Gordon Kingsley

1930
Escape!

as William Brown, the Plainclothesman

1929
The Thoroughbred

as Allen Stockbridge

1929
Syncopation

as Alexander Winston

1928
Easy Virtue

as The Plaintiff's Counsel

1927
Downhill

as Archie

1927
The Ring

as Bob Corby

1924
Not For Sale

as Martin Bering