Kim Hunter

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Kim Hunter (* 12. November 1922 as Janet Cole in Detroit , Michigan ; † 11. September 2002 in New York ) was an American actress .

Life

Kim Hunter was born under the maiden name Janet Cole as the daughter of a concert pianist and an engineer. She became a half-orphan early on; her father died when she was three years old. She was on stage for the first time at the age of 17. Hunter completed his acting training at the Actors Studio in New York. Her first film role she took in 1943 in the horror film The Seventh Victim , directed by Mark Robson . In the following years, however, her role offers remained modest and she mostly had to be content with supporting roles. She played her first leading role in 1946 in the British film classic Irrtum im Jenseits under the direction of the directing duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger . At the side of David Niven , she played an American military radio operator.

In 1947 Hunter was selected for the role of Stella Kowalski in Elia Kazan's world premiere of Endstation Sehnsucht on Broadway . Marlon Brando acted as her brutal husband in the play as well as in the later film adaptation , for whom this was the breakthrough. The play by writer Tennessee Williams was a huge hit with critics and audiences. For her re-portrayal of Stella in Kazan's eponymous film adaptation of the play, Kim Hunter won an Oscar and a Golden Globe in 1952 , both in the Best Supporting Actress category. She then got a leading role alongside Humphrey Bogart in the crime film Deadline USA (1952), but only a little later during the McCarthy era she came under suspicion of sympathizing with communism. Her name was blacklisted for several years and she could no longer work in Hollywood. In a 1962 Supreme Court decision she obtained, she was at least formally rehabilitated.

From the 1960s onwards, Hunter played in numerous television series such as Mannix , Columbo , Baretta , Der Boss and Mord ist her hobby . She is also remembered cinematically through her leading role as the chimpanzee Dr. Zira in the first three parts of the science fiction film series Planet of the Apes . In later years she appeared in several soap operas . She won an Emmy Award in 1980 for her role as Nola Madison in the soap opera The Edge of Night . She continued to appear frequently as a stage actress and published a mixture of cookbook and autobiography under the title Loose in the Kitchen . Your last film Here's to Life! shot it in 2000.

Kim Hunter was married to Robert Emmett from 1951 until his death (2000), their son Sean Emmett was born in 1954. Her first marriage, which resulted in a daughter named Kathy, was with Captain William Baldwin from 1944 to 1946. Kim Hunter died of a heart attack in her New York apartment in 2002 at the age of 79 . The actress received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in film and television .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Oscar winner: Kim Hunter died at the age of 79. In: Spiegel Online . September 12, 2002, accessed December 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Kim Hunter at Allmovie
  3. ↑ Kim Hunter at Allmovie
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janet Cole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2002
Place of death New York City , New York City , New York , United States