Hunt Block

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Hunt Block
Born
Huntington MacDonald Block

(1953-02-16) February 16, 1953 (age 72)
Years active1981–present

Huntington Macdonald Block (born February 16, 1953) is an American television actor.

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Career

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.

Personal life

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 ]

Filmography

Movies

YearTitleRoleNotes
1981 Waitress! Billcredited as David Hunt
1984 The Lonely Guy Louise's Date - in Bar
2010 Salt U.S. President Lewis
2012My Best DaySebastian
Young(ish)Middle Aged Manshort film
2015Only I...Walter Hill

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983Summer GirlPeter MitchellTV movie
1984 Hill Street Blues Tony HeedlockEpisode: "Lucky Ducks"
The First Olympics: Athens 1896 Robert GarrettTV miniseries
1985Secret WeaponsJack SpauldingTV movie
Otherworld Captain ValdorEpisode: "Princess Metra"
1985–87 Knots Landing Peter HollisterRecurring role (seasons 7–9)
1988 The Equalizer SteinerEpisode: "Video Games"
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission Joseph SternTV movie
CBS Summer Playhouse ElliotAnthology series, Episode: "Some Kinda Woman"
She Was Marked for MurderEric ChandlerTV movie
1989, 1991, 1992 Murder, She Wrote Jonas Beckwith / Reuben Stoltz / Father Donald Barnes3 episodes
1990Project: TinmanThe ManTV movie
1991Bloodlines: Murder in the FamilyTV movie
1993 Baywatch SimonEpisode: "Sky Rider"
1997–2000 Guiding Light Ben WarrenSoap opera, 106 episodes
2000 All My Children Guy DonohueSoap 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 AttorneyEpisode: "Pilot"

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