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Jeffrey Hunter married Joan Bartlett, who was known as Dusty, in 1957. Dusty was Jeff’s second wife. They divorced in 1967. Jeff adopted her son Steele from a previous marriage, and they had two more sons together: Todd (born Henry Herman McKinnies III) and Scott.
Magazine articles about their marriage can be found here and here.
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Jeffrey Hunter married Barbara Rush in December 1950. They remained married until 1955. Chris was their only child together. Jeff and Barbara met when Jeff did a screen test at Paramount Studios, where Barbara had a Paramount film contract at the time. Barbara was and is a well-regarded actress on stage, screen, and television.
Many magazine articles about their marriage can be found here and here.
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Below, please view a gallery of beautiful portraits of Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus!
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(Martin Pawley) Jeff has his best role of the decade in John Ford's classic western. With a Confederate veteran (John Wayne), he embarks on a five-year search for Wayne's niece (Natalie Wood), who had been abducted by Comanche Indians. Also starring Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Harry Carey Jr., and Patrick Wayne, John Wayne's son.
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Jeffrey Hunter’s Final Resting Place
Glen Haven Memorial Park
Sylmar, California
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Jeffrey Hunter passed away on May 27, 1969. Find articles about his death and funeral here.
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(Garver Logan) Jeff plays an American professor who becomes the object of desire of a beautiful 15th-century apprentice sorceress (Maria Perschy). In her efforts to win him over, she takes him on an trip through time. They travel to several different times, from the Stone Age to a futuristic Martian jaunt. A romantic fantasy filmed in Spain, this film also starred Gustavo Rojo and Perla Cristal.
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(Lt. Tom Cantrell, counsel for the defense) In his last film for director John Ford, Jeff is stalwart and sincere as a U.S. Cavalry legal officer defending a black sergeant wrongly accused of the rape and murder of a white girl. Woody Strode gives a strong performance as the accused in this ground-breaking Western focused on the (at the time) rarely-touched subject of racism. Also with Constance Towers, Juano Hernandez, Willis Bouchey, and Billie Burke.
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(Adam Caulfield) Jeff is a likeable, sympathetic newspaper reporter invited by his uncle, an old-time Irish politician, to enjoy a ringside seat during the man’s last campaign, for mayor of an unnamed New England City. (Frank Skeffington, the politician, is played superbly as both generous man and rogue by Spencer Tracy). A fine John Ford comedy-drama based on Edwin O’Connor’s best-selling novel about the passing of old New England politics. Besides newcomer Dianne Foster as Jeff’s bride, the cast includes some of the screen’s greatest character actors and actresses in what for many of them was their swan song: Basil Rathbone, Pat O’Brien, John Carradine, James Gleason, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh, Edward Brophy, Edmund Lowe, Wallace Ford, Ricardo Cortez, Anna Lee, and Jane Darwell, many of whom had been John Ford Stock Company players for decades.
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(Gordon Grant) In this suspenseful film based on the Ira Levin novel, Jeff is an intelligent and inquiring ‘good guy’ whose actions play a pivotal role in the story. Jeff’s character becomes suspicious after he learns that smooth-talker Wagner is seriously involved with a woman from a wealthy family, but the woman is entirely unaware that her sister–an apparent suicide–was Wagner’s prior girlfriend. With Virginia Leith, Mary Astor, and future star Joanne Woodward.
Read a nice article about the making of the film, including an interview with Robert Wagner, here.
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(Fred Morrow) Jeff is a suburban husband who witnesses a teen gang murder. When he tries to help police investigate the crime, the gang terrorizes him and his family. Dennis Hopper plays the gang's ringleader, and Pat Crowley portrays Jeff’s wife.
