Ian Hunter

Born: 1900-06-13

Ian Hunter (13 June 1900 – 22 September 1975) was a British character actor. Among dozens of film roles, his best-remembered appearances include That Certain Woman (1937) with Bette Davis, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, as King Richard the Lionheart), The Little Princess (1939, as Captain Reginald Crewe) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941, as Dr. Lanyon). Hunter returned to the Robin Hood legend in the 1955 TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood in the recurring role of Sir Richard of the Lea. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Hunter, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as King Richard the Lion-Heart
Released: 1938-05-13

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win...

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Downhill

as Archie
Released: 1927-10-24

Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for...

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The Battle of the River Plate

as Captain Woodhouse - H.M.S. Ajax
Released: 1956-10-30

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep...

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The Little Princess

as Captain Crewe
Released: 1939-03-17

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Dr. John Lanyon
Released: 1941-08-12

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil...

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The Long Voyage Home

as Smitty
Released: 1940-11-16

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World...

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Easy Virtue

as The Plaintiff's Counsel
Released: 1928-03-05

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to...

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The Ring

as Bob Corby
Released: 1927-10-01

Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Theseus
Released: 1935-10-09

Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are...

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Ziegfeld Girl

as Geoffrey Collis
Released: 1941-04-25

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1983-02-25

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas,...

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Bitter Sweet

as Lord Shayne
Released: 1940-11-08

In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to...

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Tarzan Finds a Son!

as Austin Lancing
Released: 1939-06-16

A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who...

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Broadway Melody of 1940

as Bert C. Matthews
Released: 1940-02-09

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers...

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Come Live with Me

as Barton Kendrick
Released: 1941-01-31

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling...

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Confession

as Leonide Kirow
Released: 1937-08-19

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is...

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Breakdowns of 1938

as Lloyd Rogers (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1938-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

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Strange Cargo

as Cambreau
Released: 1940-03-01

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

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Maisie

as Clifford 'Cliff' Ames
Released: 1939-06-22

Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new...

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Tower of London

as King Edward IV
Released: 1939-11-17

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord,...

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Always Goodbye

as Phillip Marshall
Released: 1938-06-24

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor...

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Jalna

as Renny Whiteoaks
Released: 1935-08-09

A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.

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Breakdowns of 1937

as Self
Released: 1937-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

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Billy the Kid

as Eric Keating
Released: 1941-05-30

Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended...

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The Bulldog Breed

as Admiral Sir Bryanston Blyth
Released: 1960-12-13

Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right....

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Edward, My Son

as Doctor Larry Woodhope
Released: 1949-03-01

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy...

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Secrets of an Actress

as Peter 'Pete' Snowden
Released: 1938-09-10

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

as uncredited
Released: 1942-10-05

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at...

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Forever and a Day

as Dexter Pomfret
Released: 1943-01-21

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the...

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Broadway Serenade

as Larry Bryant
Released: 1939-04-07

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they...

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North West Frontier

as Sir John Wyndham
Released: 1959-10-13

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a...

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That Certain Woman

as Lloyd Rogers
Released: 1937-08-30

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

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Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance

as Robert Talbot
Released: 1963-11-06

At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a...

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The Devil Is a Sissy

as Jay Pierce
Released: 1936-09-18

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his...

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The Sisters

as William Benson
Released: 1938-10-14

Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic...

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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case

as Dr. John Watson
Released: 1932-05-12

A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking...

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Guns of Darkness

as Dr. Swann
Released: 1962-07-19

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup...

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Bad Little Angel

as Jim Creighton (Sentinel editor)
Released: 1939-10-27

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

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Comet Over Broadway

as Bert Ballin
Released: 1938-12-03

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

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To Mary - with Love

as Bill Hallam
Released: 1936-08-01

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes...

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Fortune Is a Woman

as Clive Fisher
Released: 1957-03-13

An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.

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Something Always Happens

as Peter Middleton
Released: 1934-12-10

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a...

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The Mystery of the Indian Temple

as Robert Talbot
Released: 1963-11-20

Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the...

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A Dream Comes True

as Theseus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-31

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

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Another Dawn

as Colonel John Wister
Released: 1937-06-26

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to...

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Appointment in London

as Logan
Released: 1953-02-17

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from...

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The Phantom Light

as Jim Pearce
Released: 1935-08-05

Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract...

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The White Angel

as Fuller
Released: 1936-06-25

In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of...

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A Yank at Eton

as Roger Carlton
Released: 1942-09-01

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

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Smilin' Through

as Reverend Owen Harding
Released: 1941-10-01

John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride,...

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Marry Me

as Robert Hart
Released: 1932-10-05

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

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Bedelia

as Charlie Carrington
Released: 1946-07-08

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie...

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Doctor Blood's Coffin

as Dr. Robert Blood, Peter's Father
Released: 1961-01-01

After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to...

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The White Unicorn

as Philip Templar
Released: 1947-10-29

In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.

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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

as Steven V. Land
Released: 1941-02-21

All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the...

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Stolen Holiday

as Anthony Wayne
Released: 1937-02-06

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells...

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The Night of the Party

as Guy Kennion
Released: 1934-07-16

A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner...

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Gallant Sons

as Natural Davis
Released: 1940-11-15

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to...

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Rockets Galore

as Air Commodore Watchorn
Released: 1958-10-19

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is,...

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The Treasure of Monte Cristo

as Colonel Jackson
Released: 1961-06-22

A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in...

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Escape!

as William Brown, the Plainclothesman
Released: 1930-08-28

When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes...

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Lazybones

as Sir Reginald Ford
Released: 1935-06-23

Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off...

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The Water Gipsies

as Fred Green
Released: 1932-03-21

Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister...

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Dulcy

as Gordon Daly
Released: 1940-10-04

A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with...

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Death at Broadcasting House

as Detective Inspector Gregory
Released: 1934-11-01

An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and...

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Call It a Day

as Roger Hilton
Released: 1937-04-17

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures...

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52nd Street

as Rufus Rondell
Released: 1937-11-19

The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.

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It Started in Paradise

as Arthur Turner
Released: 1952-10-28

A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion...

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The Girl from 10th Avenue

as Geoffrey D. 'Geoff' Sherwood
Released: 1935-06-01

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and...

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Yes, My Darling Daughter

as Lewis Murray
Released: 1939-02-25

Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two...

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White Cradle Inn

as Anton
Released: 1947-02-28

This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a...

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The Man from Toronto

as Fergus Wimbush
Released: 1933-01-01

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an...

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I Found Stella Parish

as Keith Lockridge
Released: 1935-11-16

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

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The Queen's Guards

as uncredited
Released: 1961-10-17

Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military...

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Orders Is Orders

as Capt. Harper
Released: 1933-07-18

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and...

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It Comes Up Love

as Tom Peabody
Released: 1943-04-09

This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited...

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Eight O'Clock Walk

as Geoffrey Tanner
Released: 1954-03-16

Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr)...

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Sally in Our Alley

as George Miles
Released: 1931-07-09

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

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Cape Forlorn

as Gordon Kingsley
Released: 1931-01-08

William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret...

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The Morals of Marcus

as Sir Marcus Ordeyne
Released: 1935-02-11

A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.

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Syncopation

as Alexander Winston
Released: 1929-03-23

Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country...

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The Church Mouse

as Johnathan Steele
Released: 1934-12-10

When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.

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Not For Sale

as Martin Bering
Released: 1924-09-30

An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.

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The Door in the Wall

as Henry Redmond
Released: 1956-06-29

A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate,...

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Safeguarding Military Information

as Spy
Released: 1942-01-16

World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sir Richard of the Lea
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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Armchair Theatre

as Sir Malcolm Saville
First aired: 1956-07-08

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the...

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