"Luck is just when preparedness meets opportunity"
..... Roman philosopher and orator Seneca (55 BC-39 AD)
"Without sounding smug, I've always felt that you have to be well prepared when old man opportunity comes knocking. I always wanted to be an actor, and so I did everything possible to prepare myself for my career."
..... Jeffrey Hunter
"Be natural, sincere and honest on and off screen and stage or radio. A good acting job must come from the mind and heart." ... Advice for aspiring actors.
..... Jeffrey Hunter
"He was the finest, most decent man I've ever known."
..... Longtime friend Lee Riordan
"Despite his looks and talent, there was nothing of the snob about Hank. His voice was quiet and gentle and his manners came right out of the Civil War South."
..... Friend Don Kreger
Welcome!
Jeffrey Hunter, born Hank McKinnies, was a fine actor.
His career spanned a wide range of roles: from a college
frat-boy in Take Care of My Little Girl
to a cavalry officer with a conscience in Custer of
the West; from a brilliant scientist who drives
himself insane in Brainstorm to a high-tech spy
in Dimension 5; from a dashing prince of
Baghdad in Princess of the Nile to real-life
World War II heroes, in Hell to
Eternity and The Longest Day, as well as
fictional heroes, in Sailor of the King and
In Love and War; from
cowboys in the Old West - in Gun for a Coward
and several other films - to Indian warriors in
White Feather and Seven Cities of Gold.
He acted opposite some of the greatest screen actors of
his day, including John Wayne (in The Searchers) and Spencer Tracy (in
The Last Hurrah). He also performed in many
1950's radio dramas and made numerous appearances on
television series, especially during the
1960's - including a role as a serial killer (!) on the very
first episode of the popular series The FBI. He
also starred as a frontier lawyer in his own series,
Temple Houston, on NBC-TV during
the 1963-64 season. Perhaps his most
unforgettable role was as Jesus Christ in the film
King of Kings, though many fans first discovered
Jeffrey Hunter as the iconic first captain of the starship USS
Enterprise - Christopher Pike, in the early days of Star
Trek.
This website is dedicated with love and gratitude to
Jeffrey Hunter, whose work as an actor, and whose
untimely death in 1969, touched the lives of so many.
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| With Siobhan McKenna in King of Kings (1961) |
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Website News and Updates: |
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07/06/08 |
The
Temple Houston page is ready for
prime-time. Video clip playback
has been fixed. More pages coming
soon.... |
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03/10/08 |
A newly-designed home page, "Films of" page,
biography page, and all films pages have
been posted to the new beta site
(www.jeffreyhuntermovies.com/NewSite).
Other pages on the beta site are a work
in progress, and there will probably be
many broken hyperlinks on the beta site for awhile. The
original site at
www.jeffreyhuntermovies.com will
remain online until the beta site is
finished. |
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07/27/07 |
Added 2 new images to the King of Kings
page which were contributed by Paul, who is one of the biggest fans of the movie and of Jeffrey Hunter's performance. Thanks Paul! |
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06/24/07 |
Added 20 new images to the Hell To Eternity page. |
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05/29/07 |
Added 14 images to the Sailor Of The King page and 13 images to the
White Feather page. |
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With Dan Dailey in Call Me Mister (1951)
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