Thomas Hunter obit

Actor Thomas Hunter Has Died

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Born in Savannah, Georgia, Hunter served in the United States Marine Corps and graduated from the University of Virginia. He studied acting with Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen.

He entered film in a small role in Blake Edwards' What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966). After completing the film, a chance meeting with Dino De Laurentiis led him to be invited to star as the lead in The Hills Run Red leading him to a career in European - primarily Italian - cinema with guest appearances in American television series. His dissatisfaction with European cinema led him to found the New England Repertory Company.

Hunter published two books. The novel Softly Walks the Beast is an end-of-the-world story that takes place in the not-too-distant future and centers on a dwindling community of smart and resourceful people on a college campus, struggling against the horrible and seemingly unstoppable after-effects of a nuclear war. "Softly Walks the Beast" was first published in 1982 and a second edition was published in 2014.

In 2015, Hunter published his memoir Memoirs of a Spaghetti Cowboy: Tales of Oddball Luck and Derring-Do, which chronicles his adventures starring in numerous Spaghetti Westerns and other foreign productions while living in Rome.

 

Filmography

Screenwriter

The 'Human' Factor (1975)

The Final Countdown (1980)

Actor

Year     Title            Role            Director           Notes

1966    What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?            American GI #3            Blake Edwards          

1966    The Hills Run Red            Jerry Brewster / Jim Houston            Carlo Lizzani 

1966    Death Walks in Laredo Whitey Selby    Enzo Peri [it]

1967    Love Nights in the Taiga    Frank Heller   Harald Philipp 

1968    Anzio            Pvt. Andy    Edward Dmytryk          

1968    The Magnificent Tony Carrera            Tony Carrera            José Antonio de la Loma [es]        

1969    Battle of the Commandos            Capt. Kevin Burke            Umberto Lenzi

1969            Revenge [it]     Richard Marlowe            Pino Tosini [it]         

1971    The Vampire Happening            Internatslehrer Jens Larsen  Freddie Francis

1971            Madness - Gli occhi della luna [it]                 Cesare Rau     

1971    X312 - Flight to Hell [de]      Tom Nilson  Jesús Franco

1971    Il sorriso del ragno                Massimo Castellani      

1971    Carlos            Pedro            Hans W. Geißendörfer            TV movie

1971            Equinozio                     Maurizio Ponzi

1973    Night Flight from Moscow                       Henri Verneuil           

1974    Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen [de]            Werner Becker Alfred Vohrer

1975    The 'Human' Factor            Taylor            Edward Dmytryk          

1976    The Cassandra Crossing            Captain Scott    George P. Cosmatos    

1976    Cross Shot     Turrini            Stelvio Massi  

1983    The Act       The John     Sig Shore   (final film role)