Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter

Birthday: 1900-06-13

Place of Birth: Cape Town, South Africa

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.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, ...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the ...

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Come Live with Me
Come Live with Me

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writ...

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The Little Princess
The Little Princess

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second...

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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case

A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing...

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Tarzan Finds a Son!
Tarzan Finds a Son!

A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name hi...

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Tower of London
Tower of London

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminate...

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Easy Virtue
Easy Virtue

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She...

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The Ring
The Ring

Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage...

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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact th...

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The Battle of the River Plate
The Battle of the River Plate

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the At...

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Bedelia
Bedelia

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington...

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Maisie
Maisie

Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer cl...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, ...

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Strange Cargo
Strange Cargo

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure....

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Doctor Blood's Coffin
Doctor Blood's Coffin

After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a s...

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The Long Voyage Home
The Long Voyage Home

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II...

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Bad Little Angel
Bad Little Angel

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town....

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Appointment in London
Appointment in London

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England....

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Confession
Confession

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is reveal...

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Another Dawn
Another Dawn

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England...

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The Man from Toronto
The Man from Toronto

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English wi...

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Edward, My Son
Edward, My Son

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marria...

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That Certain Woman
That Certain Woman

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval....

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Eight O'Clock Walk
Eight O'Clock Walk

Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) bel...

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Bitter Sweet
Bitter Sweet

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle ...

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Death at Broadcasting House
Death at Broadcasting House

An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadca...

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The Sisters
The Sisters

Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marr...

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Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid

Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and ...

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Something Always Happens
Something Always Happens

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petr...

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Broadway Serenade
Broadway Serenade

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audi...

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Smilin' Through
Smilin' Through

John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moon...

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The Phantom Light
The Phantom Light

Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him...

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Fortune Is a Woman
Fortune Is a Woman

An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam....

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Call It a Day
Call It a Day

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during...

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Dulcy
Dulcy

A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a p...

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Always Goodbye
Always Goodbye

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim H...

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Secrets of an Actress
Secrets of an Actress

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress....

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The Girl from 10th Avenue
The Girl from 10th Avenue

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds ...

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The Door in the Wall
The Door in the Wall

A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden...

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Stolen Holiday
Stolen Holiday

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bo...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...

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The Church Mouse
The Church Mouse

When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady....

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Gallant Sons
Gallant Sons

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to fin...

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Sally in Our Alley
Sally in Our Alley

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her...

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Lazybones
Lazybones

Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a ...

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The Treasure of Monte Cristo
The Treasure of Monte Cristo

A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intr...

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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Yes, My Darling Daughter

Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year j...

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White Cradle Inn
White Cradle Inn

This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chro...

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It Started in Paradise
It Started in Paradise

A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion worl...

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I Found Stella Parish
I Found Stella Parish

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past....

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It Comes Up Love
It Comes Up Love

This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles...

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Guns of Darkness
Guns of Darkness

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a...

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The Bulldog Breed
The Bulldog Breed

Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After ...

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The White Unicorn
The White Unicorn

In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden....

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Comet Over Broadway
Comet Over Broadway

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition....

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Cape Forlorn
Cape Forlorn

William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Ei...

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The Devil Is a Sissy
The Devil Is a Sissy

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel...

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Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautif...

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The White Angel
The White Angel

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs...

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To Mary - with Love
To Mary - with Love

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes success...

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A Yank at Eton
A Yank at Eton

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline....

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Safeguarding Military Information
Safeguarding Military Information

World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military info...

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The Queen's Guards
The Queen's Guards

Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academ...

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Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as...

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Jalna
Jalna

A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm....

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Syncopation
Syncopation

Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as ...

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Not For Sale
Not For Sale

An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft....

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The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts

'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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The Mystery of the Indian Temple
The Mystery of the Indian Temple

Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the Maharajah of...

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Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance

At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number ...

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The Water Gipsies
The Water Gipsies

Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever si...

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Confessions
Confessions

Two typists, one attractive, the other efficient, fall in love with the son of one of the firm's par...

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The Night of the Party
The Night of the Party

A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party...

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The Silver Spoon
The Silver Spoon

“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI....

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Forever and a Day
Forever and a Day

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral ...

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No Escape
No Escape

“Crime film set in Malaya concerning the pursuit of a planter framed for poisoning his partner and s...

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Marry Me
Marry Me

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele...

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Breakdowns of 1938
Breakdowns of 1938

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938....

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A Dream Comes True
A Dream Comes True

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)....

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Breakdowns of 1937
Breakdowns of 1937

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937....

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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, ...

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52nd Street
52nd Street

The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s....

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The Morals of Marcus
The Morals of Marcus

A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London....

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Orders Is Orders
Orders Is Orders

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use ...

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Rockets Galore
Rockets Galore

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the go...

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His House in Order
His House in Order

A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard....

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Downhill
Downhill

When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disow...

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North West Frontier
North West Frontier

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young ...

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Don't Blame the Stork
Don't Blame the Stork

When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promp...

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Escape!
Escape!

When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an ...

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The Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred

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