Hunt Block
Hunt Block (born February 16, 1954) is an American actor.[1] Block graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Hunt Block | |
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| Born | Huntington MacDonald Block February 16, 1954 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Career
Block's first big break was selling Buick Century automobiles at the Chicago Auto Show. He made numerous TV commercials, short films, and experimental theater pieces. He has appeared on stages from Off-Off to Broadway (for Arthur Laurents, Edward Albee, Robert Smith, Doric Wilson...) in As You Like It, Forever After, A Loss Of Memory, Provicante di Saliva, Bald Soprano, Make Mine Kafka!, and others. Has worked in film for directors including Arthur Hiller, Peter Medak, Lee Katzin, Alvin Rakoff, and Phillip Noyce. U.S. President Howard Lewis in the film Salt, Sebastian Weinberg in My Best Day, Walter Hill in Only I..., and more.
Block portrayed U.S. Olympian Robert Garrett (1875-1961), a young real-life scion of a wealthy Baltimore railroad and financier family in the NBC TV miniseries The First Olympics: Athens 1896, about the beginnings of the Olympic movement, and the American team's trip to Athens, Greece, broadcast in America in May 1984. Block had as well as starring roles in several other TV movies and pilots. He has appeared steadily in lead roles in several dramatic serials, such as Knots Landing, and numerous TV soap opera daytime dramas: Guiding Light, All My Children, As the World Turns, and One Life to Live. He has voiced multiple commercial and digital campaigns, performed with the Indonesian poetry forum Yang Mengatakan, the Balinese Shadow Theatre, and the Norwegian Arctic Rights Group Vakne Opp's aerial production of "Ballong", and is a regular contributor to Sweet Dreams, an audio series of bedtime stories.
Filmography
Movies
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Waitress! | Bill | Credited as David Hunt |
| 1984 | The Lonely Guy | Louise's Date - in Bar | |
| 2010 | Salt | U.S. President Lewis | |
| 2012 | My Best Day | Sebastian | |
| Young(ish) | Middle Aged Man | Short | |
| 2015 | Only I... | Walter Hill | |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Summer Girl | Peter Mitchell | TV Movie |
| 1984 | Hill Street Blues | Tony Heedlock | 1 Episode: Lucky Ducks |
| The First Olympics: Athens 1896 | Robert Garrett | ||
| 1985 | Secret Weapons | Jack Spaulding | TV Movie |
| Otherworld | Captain Valdor | 1 Episode, Princess Metra | |
| 1985-87 | Knots Landing | Peter Hollister | 53 Episodes |
| 1988 | The Equalizer | Steiner | 1 Episode: Video Games |
| The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission | Joseph Stern | TV Movie | |
| Some Kinda Woman | Elliot | TV Movie | |
| She Was Marked for Murder | Eric Chandler | TV Movie | |
| 1989-92 | Murder, She Wrote | Dr. Jonas Beckwith / Reuben Stoltz / Father Donald Barnes | 3 Episodes: Programmed for Murder, Murder, Plain and Simple, Seal of the Confessional |
| 1990 | Project: Tinman | The Man | TV Movie |
| 1991 | Bloodlines: Murder in the Family | TV Movie | |
| 1993 | Baywatch | Simon | 1 Episode: Sky Rider |
| 1997-2000 | Guiding Light | Ben Warren | |
| 2000 | All My Children | Guy Donohue | |
| 2000-05 | As the World Turns | Craig Montgomery | |
| 2007-08 | One Life to Live | Lee Ramsey | |
| 2011 | Suits | Rival Attorney | 1 Episode: Pilot |