Jeffrey Hunter (November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was a film and television actor.
Hunter was born Henry Herman McKinnies, Jr., in New Orleans, Louisiana, but raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1930 onward, where he graduated from Whitefish Bay High School. He began acting in local theater and radio in his early teens. He served stateside in the United States Navy, in World War II, then studied theatre at Northwestern University, 1946–1949.
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Jeffrey Hunter (November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was a film and television actor.
Hunter was born Henry Herman McKinnies, Jr., in New Orleans, Louisiana, but raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1930 onward, where he graduated from Whitefish Bay High School. He began acting in local theater and radio in his early teens. He served stateside in the United States Navy, in World War II, then studied theatre at Northwestern University, 1946–1949.
In 1950, while a graduate student in radio at the University of California, Los Angeles and appearing in a college play, he was spotted by talent scouts and offered a two-year motion picture contract by 20th Century-Fox that was eventually extended to 1959. He made his Hollywood debut in Fourteen Hours, had star billing by Red Skies of Montana (1952), and first billing in Sailor of the King (1953).
A loan-out to co-star with John Wayne in the title roles of the now-classic western The Searchers began the first of three pictures he made with...
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