Hugh Griffith

He died in London, England. Hunter's two previous marriages included actress Barbara Rush in the early 1950s. He received an honorary degree from the University of Wales in Bangor in 1980. He died the following day from his injuries. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Ben-Hur (1959), and received a second nomination for his role in Tom Jones (1963). In May 1969, shortly after marrying actress Emily McLaughlin, he suffered a cerebrovascular accident while at home, causing a fall and a skull fracture. Griffith began his film career in British films during the late 1940s, and by the 1950s was also appearing in Hollywood films. With the demise of the studio contract system in the early 1960s and the out-sourcing of much feature production, Hunter like many other leading men of the 1950s had to find work in B-pictures produced in Europe, Hong Kong, and Mexico, with the occasional television guest part in Hollywood.

He resumed his acting career in 1947. But Hunter was soon filming the pilot for yet another NBC series, the espionage thriller Journey Into Fear, which the network failed to pick up and a motion picture called Brainstorm (1965). Just as he was making progress and gained admission to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he had to suspend his plans in order to serve in the army in India and Burma during World War II. Although Temple Houston did not survive its first season, NBC offered him the lead role of Captain Christopher Pike in the pilot episode (The Cage) of a new science fiction series, Star Trek. His pensive take on the role was in contrast to the more idiosyncratic style of William Shatner, who took the part after Hunter, deciding to concentrate on motion pictures, declined to film a second Star Trek pilot requested by NBC in 1965. He became a bank clerk and transferred to London to be closer to acting opportunities. that included starring as a circuit-riding Texas lawyer in the NBC series Temple Houston (1963-64), which Hunter's production company co-produced. Griffith was educated in local schools and attempted to gain entrance to the university, but failed the English examination. He was then urged to make a career in banking. Having guest starred on television dramas since the mid-1950s, Hunter was now offered a two-year contract by Warner Bros.

He was born in Marian Glas, Anglesey, Wales. Among an all-star cast in the World War II battle epic The Longest Day (1962), he provided the climactic heroic act of breaching the defense wall atop Normandy's Omaha Beach. Hugh Emrys Griffith (May 30, 1912 – May 14, 1980) was a film actor. Ford also recommended Hunter to director Nicholas Ray for the role of Jesus in the biblical King of Kings (1961), a difficult part met by critical reaction that ranged from praise to ridicule. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). A loan-out to co-star with John Wayne in the title roles of the now-classic western The Searchers (1956) began the first of three pictures he made with director John Ford, followed by The Last Hurrah (1958) and Sergeant Rutledge (1960). Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). Hunter's handsome looks and gentle manner recalled two earlier Fox stars, Tyrone Power and the young Henry Fonda.

Oliver (1968). He made his Hollywood debut in Fourteen Hours (1951), had star billing by Red Skies of Montana (1952), and first billing in Sailor of the King (1953). Ben-Hur (1959). 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. Tom Jones (1963). He served stateside in the United States Navy in World War II, then studied drama at Northwestern University. The Passover Plot. He was born Henry Herman McKinnies, Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he began acting in local theater and radio in his early teens.

The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977). Jeffrey Hunter (November 25, 1926 - May 27, 1969) was a film and television actor. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978). Loving Cousins. Wuthering Heights.

Cry of the Banshee. Start the Revolution Without Me (1970). Sailor from Gibraltar. Moll Flanders (1965).

Exodus (1960). The Sleeping Tiger (1954). The Titfield thunderbolt (1953). The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949).

Neutral Port (1940).