Hunt Block | |
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Born | Huntington MacDonald Block February 16, 1954 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Years active | 1981–present |
Huntington Macdonald Block (born February 16, 1954) is an American actor.
Block was discovered selling Buick Century automobiles at the Chicago Auto Show. Early in his career, he made numerous TV commercials, short films, and experimental theater pieces. While living in Tribeca in New York City, he performed in Off-Off Broadway and Broadway productions for Arthur Laurents, Edward Albee, Robert Smith, and Doric Wilson. He appeared in William Shakespeare's As You Like It , Forever After, A Loss Of Memory, Provicante di Saliva, The Bald Soprano , and Make Mine Kafka!.
Block has worked with film directors Arthur Hiller, Peter Medak, Lee Katzin, Alvin Rakoff, and Phillip Noyce. Block played the roles of U.S. President Howard Lewis in the film Salt , Sebastian Weinberg in My Best Day, Walter Hill in Only I..., [1] the U.S. Olympian Robert Garrett (1875–1961), a young scion of a wealthy Baltimore railroad and financier family in the TV miniseries The First Olympics: Athens 1896 . He had starring roles in several other TV movies and pilots, and he has appeared steadily in lead roles in several dramatic serials, such as Knots Landing, [2] and numerous TV daytime dramas, including 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, in Balinese Shadow plays, and in the Norwegian Arctic Rights Group Vakne Opp's production of Ballong. He is a regular contributor to Sweet Dreams, an audio series of bedtime stories.
Block is the son of Huntington T. Block, an insurance underwriter, and is the brother of film producer and CEO of Miramax Bill Block.[ citation needed ]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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 film | |
2015 | Only I... | Walter Hill | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1983 | Summer Girl | Peter Mitchell | TV movie |
1984 | Hill Street Blues | Tony Heedlock | episode: "Lucky Ducks" |
The First Olympics: Athens 1896 | Robert Garrett | miniseries | |
1985 | Secret Weapons | Jack Spaulding | TV movie |
Otherworld | Captain Valdor | episode: "Princess Metra" | |
1985–87 | Knots Landing | Peter Hollister | recurring role (seasons 7–9) |
1988 | The Equalizer | Steiner | episode: "Video Games" |
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission | Joseph Stern | TV movie | |
CBS Summer Playhouse | Elliot | anthology series, episode: "Some Kinda Woman" | |
She Was Marked for Murder | Eric Chandler | TV movie | |
1989, 1991, 1992 | Murder, She Wrote | Jonas Beckwith / Reuben Stoltz / Father Donald Barnes | 3 episodes |
1990 | Project: Tinman | The Man | TV movie |
1991 | Bloodlines: Murder in the Family | TV movie | |
1993 | Baywatch | Simon | episode: "Sky Rider" |
1997–2000 | Guiding Light | Ben Warren | soap opera, 106 episodes |
2000 | All My Children | Guy Donohue | soap opera, 3 episodes |
2000–05 | As the World Turns | Craig Montgomery | soap opera, 335 episodes |
2007–08 | One Life to Live | Lee Ramsey | soap opera, 78 episodes |
2011 | Suits | Rival Attorney | episode: "Pilot" |
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