Ian Hunter (actor)
Ian Hunter ( born June 13, 1900 in Cape Town, South Africa, † 23 September 1975 in London) was a British theater and film actor.
Life
Ian Hunter was born in 1900 as son of Robert Hunter, a wine merchant, and Isabel Gates Hunter in Cape Town, where he spent his childhood. Later, he and his parents moved to the UK, where the family had its roots. After serving in the British Army in 1919, he gave his stage debut in London. In 1924, Hunter appeared in British silent films, including three early films by Alfred Hitchcock: The World Cup and downhill from 1927 and Easy Virtue, which came in the rental 1928.
After several appearances on Broadway, including Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1925 in The School for Scandal, was Ian Hunter mid-1930s, a studio contract with Warner Brothers. Because of his British accent make it often embodied honorable characters, such as Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the film version of William Shakespeare's play of the same under the direction of Max Reinhard and William Dieterle. With Kay Francis, he formed a popular screen couple that occurred in seven films together between 1935 to 1938, including I Found Stella Parrish, The White Angel and Another Dawn. Among his better-known roles counts his appearance as Richard the Lionheart in Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds in 1938 on the side of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.
In 1943 he returned to England one more time to undertake military service and fight in World War II at the front. After the war he remained in the UK, where he played for the following years, both in films and television series as well as on the stage. Mid -1960s, Hunter retired from show business. He and his wife Catherine Pringle Casha he had two sons, one of whom, Robin Hunter (1929-2004), also became an actor. Ian Hunter died in 1975 at the age of 75 years in London.