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| Jimmy's childhood and acting days: Born in Los Angeles, December 4, 1939, James Walter Hunt was six when a talent scout came by his school "about six blocks from MGM" and picked him to test for a part in a picture. "They were looking for somebody to play Van Johnson as a boy in High Barbaree. I don't remember much about it all, but apparently I did well, I had the look they wanted, and I got the part." When studios needed a young boy, Hunt was on the spot: he was one of the youngsters in the film Cheaper By The Dozen, and he was Ronald Reagen's son in Louisa. He was a Western kid in Lone Hand and Saddle Tramp with Joel McCrea, one of Hunt's personal favorite actors. In The Fuller Brush Man, with Red Skelton, he was the mean little kid. "I never studied acting," said Hunt. He was a natural and for seven years, he moved from studio to studio and film to film, finally landing the lead in Invaders From Mars, the picture for which he is best-remembered. But by then, Ironically, he'd had enough. At age 14 Hunt recalls, "I was in junior high and very into sports. It was getting to a point where the roles I was playing were more and more demanding and they expected more from me. So I told my parents I wanted out, and they talked to my agent - and it nearly killed the poor guy." |
| What happened after acting and his adult life: After college, Hunt joined the service and ended up at Herzl near Nuremberg, Germany, working on such top-secret projects as code-breaking. And that's where he met the girl he married. "She worked in a men's clothing store but couldn't speak any English, and I couldn't speak any German. She flipped a coin to see if she'd go out with me, and I won. I told her that was the only thing I'd ever won in my life." When they married in 1963, he brought her and her young daughter from a previous marriage to the U.S. Jim and Roswitha ('her name means White Rose") eventually had two boys of their own, Randy and Ron, and today he is a grandfather 6 times over. |
| What is he up to now?: Currently, Jim is an industrial tool and supply salesman. He works in and around the San Fernando Valley. He is a Simi Valley resident of over 20 years, and ironically he lives less than 5 miles away from the Ronald Reagen Library, whom Jim co-starred with in the film Louisa. He keeps busy with his church, job and family. He is a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day-Saints for the last 20 years. Also, Jim keeps very busy visiting his 6 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. |
| If you would like to know more please send a letter to his address or e:mail me and I will see that he gets a copy of it. |
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