Arthur Hunnicutt

Arthur Hunnicutt ( born February 17, 1910 in Gravelly, Arkansas, † 26 September 1979 in Woodland Hills, California ) was an American actor. Arthur Hunnicutt often embodied the humorous rural type.

Life

From a financial emergency Hunnicutt had after three years to leave school. He joined a theater group in Massachusetts, then moved to New York and became an actor on Broadway and performed in numerous plays. In the play Tobacco Road Hunnicutt took over the lead role.

In the early 1940s he played with in some smaller films, but quickly returned to the stage. In 1949 he went to Hollywood forever and began a career as a reliable performer of supporting roles. The peak of his filmmaking was his lively and dynamic representation of Zeb Calloway in Howard Hawks Western The Big Sky - The wide sky in 1952 His reward was the applause of the audience, but also a nomination for an Oscar.. The rest of his career he continued to play similarly sympathetic characters, especially often on television. Among other things, Hunnicutt was to be seen in the following series: The Bounty Hunter, The Rifleman, The Twilight Zone, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, Perry Mason, Amos Burke, The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, The people of the Virginian and Gunsmoke.

Hunnicutt died in 1979 at an oral cavity carcinoma.

Filmography (selection)

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