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Biography

Hunt Block

Overview

  • Born
    February 16, 1953 · Glen Burnie, Maryland, USA
  • Birth name
    Huntington Macdonald Block
  • Height
    6′ 3″ (1.91 m)

Mini bio

  • First big break was selling Buick Centuries at the Chicago Auto show. (After working as a 2nd assistant cameraman (non-credited) for Andrzej Bartkowiak, Norman Leigh on the "The Brink's Job" - Billy Friedkin and Dino De Laurentiis).

    Subsequently performed in numerous TV commercials, short films, and experimental theater pieces.

    Has appeared on stages from Off-Off to Broadway for Arthur Laurents, Edward Albee, Robert Smith, Doric Wilson... (As You Like It, Forever After, A Loss Of Memory, Provicante di Saliva, Bald Soprano, Make Mine Kafka! ...).

    Has worked in film and television for directors including Arthur Hiller, Peter Medak, Lee Katzin, Alvin Rakoff, Rick Berman, Bill Duke, and Phillip Noyce... (President Howard Lewis in Salt, Sebastian Weinberg in My Best Day, Robert Garrett in First Olympics, Athens 1896...). And years before the mast in television. (Starting with the indelible "Room Service Waiter" on Another World, then starring roles in lots of other TV movies, pilots, etc.)

    Appeared steadily in lead roles in several dramatic serials, such as Knots Landing, Guiding Light, All My Children, As the World Turns, and One Life to Live.

    Has voiced numerous 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.
    - IMDb mini biography by: Fred C. Hobbs

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  • Has a BFA from Harvard University
  • Was the recipient of the Vivian Beaumont Fellowship and the American National Theatre Association Fellowship

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