Jay Hunt (director)
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![]() Lobby card from Lightnin' (1925) with Edythe Chapman and Jay Hunt | |
Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | August 4, 1855
Died | November 18, 1932 Los Angeles, California, USA | (aged 77)
Years active | 1911-1931 |
Jay Hunt (August 4, 1855 – November 18, 1932) was an American film director and actor.[1] He directed 68 films between 1911 and 1919. He continued his career as an actor until 1931. The White Squaw, a 1920 film directed by Hunt, was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.[2]
Selected filmography[]
- Star of the North (1914)
- The Man Who Went Out (1915}[3]
- Civilization (1916)
- The Black Sheep of the Family (1916)
- The Promise (1917)
- My Lady Robin Hood (1919) - directed
- Yankee Speed (1924)
- Wanted by the Law (1924)
- Lightnin' (1925)
- Counsel for the Defense (1925)
- The Gentle Cyclone (1926)
- A Man Four-Square (1926)
- Men of the Night (1926)
- 3 Bad Men (1926)
- The Golden Web (1926)
- The Harvester (1927)
- The Overland Stage (1927)
- Captain Salvation (1927)
- The Cheyenne Cyclone (1931)
References[]
- ^ Bigham, Randy Bryan (April 11, 2014). Finding Dorothy: A Biography of Dorothy Gibson. Lulu. ISBN 9781105520082. Retrieved March 22, 2019 – via Google Books.
- Katchmer, George A. (May 20, 2015). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. ISBN 9781476609058. Retrieved March 22, 2019 – via Google Books. - ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ "Theatrical", The Allentown Leader, July 31, 1915, page 8
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jay Hunt (director). |
- Jay Hunt at IMDb
- Jay Hunt at the Internet Broadway Database
Categories:
- 1855 births
- 1932 deaths
- American male film actors
- Film directors from Pennsylvania
- Male actors from Philadelphia
- 20th-century American male actors
- American film director stubs