Peter Huls Hunt (born December 19, 1938) is an American theatre, film, and television director and a theatrical lighting designer.
Born in Pasadena, California, Hunt began his career as a lighting designer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1958. He became Artistic Director in 1989, a post he held until 1995. In 1969, he helmed the Broadway musical 1776, winning the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his efforts. His next project, Georgy, was less successful, closing after only four performances. He received a second Tony nomination for Goodtime Charley in 1975. His most recent Broadway project was The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1997. He has since directed several benefit shows for the Actors Fund in Los Angeles, including staged readings of Sunset Boulevard and Casablanca.
Hunt's feature film credits include the screen adaptation of 1776 and Give 'em Hell, Harry!. He has directed numerous television movies, including four based on the Hart to Hart series, and episodes of Baywatch, Baywatch Nights, and Touched by an Angel, among others. He was producer-director of four of the feature adaptations in the Peabody Award-winning Mark Twain Series on PBS including Life on the Mississippi and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Hunt is the uncle of actress Helen Hunt. He resides in Los Angeles, California. He is married to former actress Barbette Tweed, daughter of Harrison Tweed. The couple have three children.
External links
Peter H. Hunt at the Internet Broadway Database
Peter H. Hunt at the Internet Movie Database
v • d • e
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
George Abbott (1960) · Gower Champion (1961) · Abe Burrows (1962) · George Abbott (1963) · Gower Champion (1964) · Jerome Robbins (1965) · Albert Marre (1966) · Harold Prince (1967) · Gower Champion (1968) · Peter H. Hunt (1969) · Ron Field (1970) · Harold Prince (1971) · Harold Prince / Michael Bennett (1972) · Bob Fosse (1973) · Harold Prince (1974) · Geoffrey Holder (1975)
Complete list: (1960-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)
Persondata
NAME
Hunt, Peter H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Director
DATE OF BIRTH
December 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH
Pasadena, California
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 577/1000000
Post-expand include size: 14393/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 7281/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Hunt"
Categories: 1938 births | Living people | American film directors | American television directors | American theatre directors | Lighting designers | People from Pasadena, California | Tony Award winners
Views
Article
Discussion
Edit this page
History
Personal tools
Log in / create account
if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha();
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Search
Interaction
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact Wikipedia
Donate to Wikipedia
Help
Toolbox
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Printable version Permanent linkCite this page
This page was last modified on 13 June 2008, at 19:47.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();
